5.2A Operating bands for CA

38.521-23GPPNRPart 2: Range 2 StandaloneRadio transmission and receptionRelease 17TSUser Equipment (UE) conformance specification

5.2A.1 Intra-band CA

NR intra-band contiguous and non-contiguous carrier aggregation is designed to operate in the operating bands defined in Table 5.2A.1-1, where all operating bands are within FR2.

Table 5.2A.1-1: Intra-band contiguous and non-contiguous CA operating bands in FR2

NR CA Band	NR Band (Table 5.2-1)
CA_n257	n257
CA_n260	n260
CA_n261	n261

5.2A.2 Void

5.2A.3 Inter-band CA

NR inter-band carrier aggregation is designed to operate in the operating bands defined in Table 5.2A.2-1, where all operating bands are within FR2.

Beam management type is according to UE capability declaration IE beamManagementType-r16. The requirements in the following clauses are only applicable to inter-band CA with IBM type.

Table 5.2A.3-1: Inter-band CA operating bands in FR2

NR CA Band	NR Band (Table 5.2-1)
CA_n260-n261	n260, n261