Qualcomm and Facebook to Bring High-Speed Internet Connectivity Over 60GHz to Urban Areas

SAN DIEGO, May 21, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) through its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., and Facebook announced they are working together to deliver high-speed internet connectivity with Facebook's Terragraph technology through the development of a multi-node wireless system based on 60GHz technology from Qualcomm Technologies. Working with leading operators and manufacturers, this terrestrial connectivity system aims to improve the speed, efficiency and quality of internet connectivity around the world at only a fraction of the cost of fiber deployments. Qualcomm Technologies will integrate its QCA6438 and QCA6428 family of pre-802.11ay chipsets with Facebook's Terragraph technology. This effort will help enable manufacturers to build 60GHz mmWave solutions using the unlicensed 60GHz spectrum and provide Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) to offer consumers in urban areas access to high-speed broadband connections. The companies expect to begin trials of the integrated solution mid-2019.

The full release is available on the Qualcomm News Center website at
(https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2018/05/21/qualcomm-and-facebook-bring-high-speed-internet-connectivity-over-60ghz)

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