Earlier today, T-Mobile made an important announcement with its 5G network. The Un-carrier revealed that its network achieved another first in a test leveraging 5G standalone mmWave on its production network.  This is all, of course, thanks to its collaboration with Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Through this collaboration, T-Mobile was able to aggregate eight channels of mmWave spectrum and reached 4.3 Gbps download speeds without the use of low-band or mid-band spectrum. T-Mo was also able ... [read full article]
  • smitty825@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    That’s exciting news. One of the downsides of T-Mobiles mmWave deployments has been it needed an (often saturated) mid-band signal to work. So, this )once rolled out) removes that limitation.

    Next, we’ll need them to actually roll out mmWave antennas so that we can all take advantage of that extra capacity!