India, June 3 -- MediaTek has announced the completion of what it describes as the industry's first test of a three transmit antenna (3Tx) five-layer uplink configuration in collaboration with Samsung. The demonstration combined MediaTek's M90 5G modem platform with Samsung's network technologies, including its virtualised radio access network (vRAN), Massive MIMO units (MMU) and macro radios.

The test aimed to improve 5G uplink performance by combining multiple frequency bands and antenna technologies to increase speed and network efficiency.

Building on earlier demonstrations of 3Tx technology, the trial used a multi-band configuration combining the n66 band (1.7GHz) as the primary cell with dual n77 (3.7GHz) carriers across five upli...