The government's trials are being led by the National Science Foundation (NSF), which is spending $50 million over the next five years on designing and constructing testing platforms backed by a network of software-defined radio antennas in four US cities that are yet to be chosen.
T-Mobile and Samsung are contributing to $35 million in additional funding, along with AT&T, HTC, Carlson Wireless Technologies, Verizon, Nokia, Qualcomm, and Oracle.
In addition, Samsung will be a board member on the project, and is slated to contribute specialists to work alongside 400 university researchers on network and mmWave radio technologies.
"The White House initiative provides an ideal platform for Samsung to help create a blueprint for the future of communications network development through collaboration with a diverse range of experts," Charlie Zhang, vice president of Samsung Research America, said.
"Supporting US wireless leadership and next-generation networks continues to be a priority for Samsung, and we look forward to helping expedite 5G innovation to enable more people to benefit from the next level of enhanced communications."
Samsung has been working on 5G technologies for years; back in October 2014, it announced attaining mobile speeds of 7.5Gbps during stationary 5G network trials, and 1.2Gbps while in a moving vehicle travelling at more than 100km/h.
Those tests were also conducted over the 28GHz spectrum band.
In June this year, Samsung also developed a power amplifier that doubles the power output and reduces power consumption, along with a 1mm antenna that will enable 5G devices and radio stations to be much smaller.
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