Frequency Bands 5G NR (New Radio)

Recently, 3GPP has freezes specification for 5G NR and TS 38.104 section 5.2 provides the list of bands in which NR (New Radio) can operate. As per 3GPP release 15 , these frequency bands are desingated for different frequency ranges (FR) and current specification (Release) defines them as FR1 and FR2. Below table shows the corresponding frequency range for each FR.

NR Bands Classification

Apart from FR (frequency range) NR bands can be classified into three into categories

• Frequency Division Duplex Bands (FDD)
• Time Division Duplex Bands (TDD)
• Supplementary Bands (SUL) : Downlink Supplement Bands & Uplink Supplement Bands

NR has introduced a new notation for band which starts with “n” e.g. Band 20 is noted as n20 where in LTE it was termed as B20.

NR Operating Bands in FR1 (450 MHz – 6000 MHz)

NR Operating Bands in FR2

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