Softbank and Nokia test-drive non-standalone 5G for connected cars

Japanese telecoms group SoftBank claims to have tested non-standalone 5G with connected cars. Nokia, the kit partner for the tests, called it a “world-first trial”. The setup used 3GPP Release 15 compliant radio equipment running commercial-level 256QAM high-order modulation and 4×4 multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) spatial multiplexing. Softbank tested a number of use cases at a…