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Sprint Continues LTE Plus Three-Channel Carrier Aggregation Tests - Reaches 275 Mbps with LG G5
Sprint (News - Alert) (NYSE: S) continues its device testing of three-channel carrier
aggregation, today announcing it reached peak speeds of 275 Mbps in
three-channel carrier aggregation lab tests using the LG G5, one of the
first devices on the market to support the functionality. Sprint is
independently testing three-channel carrier aggregation in its labs to
evaluate overall performance, speed, and reliability as it prepares for
LTE (News - Alert) Plus network deployment.
Carrier aggregation is an LTE-Advanced feature that bonds together bands
of spectrum to create wider channels and produce more capacity and
faster speeds on capable devices. Essentially it creates a wider lane
that allows more data traffic to travel at higher rates.
Today Sprint offers 22 devices that actively support two-channel carrier
aggregation on its super-fast LTE Plus network. Two-channel carrier
aggregation delivers peak speeds of more than 100 Mbps in 237 LTE Plus
markets across the country using 40 MHz of spectrum on the company's
2.5GHz cell sites.
Six devices currently offered by Sprint are three-channel carrier
aggregation capable: the HTC 9, HTC 10, LG G5, Samsung (News - Alert) Galaxy S7,
Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, and Samsung Note 7. With three-channel carrier
aggregation Sprint will utilize 60 MHz of spectrum to provide peak
speeds of more than 200 Mbps on capable devices. Three-channel carrier
aggregation is slated for enablement on capable devices via an automatic
software update following network deployment.
A Capacity-Rich Network Offers Unlimited Freedom
With Sprint's deep spectrum holdings anda reliable, capacity-rich
network that's built for data, Sprint is proud to now offer Unlimited
Freedom with unlimited talk, text, and mobile optimized streaming
videos, gaming and music.1
"Our holdings of more than 160 MHz of 2.5 GHz spectrum in the top 100
U.S. markets give us more capacity than any other carrier in the U.S. In
combination with our Densification and Optimization strategy we
futureproof our network for our customers," said Günther Ottendorfer,
Sprint COO, Technology. "This capacity enables us to reach very high
speeds, as well as provide innovative unlimited data plans to our
customers while keeping pace with the growing demand for data."
About Sprint:
Sprint (NYSE: S) is a communications services company that creates more
and better ways to connect its customers to the things they care about
most. Sprint served more than 59.4 million connections as of June 30,
2016 and is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying
innovative technologies, including the first wireless 4G service from a
national carrier in the United States; leading no-contract brands
including Virgin Mobile (News - Alert) USA, Boost Mobile, and Assurance Wireless;
instant national and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a
global Tier 1 Internet backbone. Sprint has been named to the Dow Jones
Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America for the past five years. You
can learn more and visit Sprint at www.sprint.com
or www.facebook.com/sprint
and www.twitter.com/sprint.
1 Mobile optimized video streams at up to 480p+ resolution,
music at up to 500kbps, streaming cloud gaming at up to 2mbps. Data
deprioritization applies during times of congestion.
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