| CPC H04W 72/0453 (2013.01) [H04L 5/001 (2013.01)] | 18 Claims |

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1. A carrier configuration method, comprising:
obtaining, by a radio access network device, an available spectrum resource bandwidth and a maximum carrier bandwidth at a subcarrier spacing; and
configuring, by the radio access network device, a first carrier and a second carrier, wherein a sum of a first carrier bandwidth of the first carrier and a second carrier bandwidth of the second carrier is greater than the available spectrum resource bandwidth, and the sum of the first carrier bandwidth and the second carrier bandwidth minus an overlapping bandwidth between the first carrier and the second carrier equals the available spectrum resource bandwidth.
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