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T-Mobile Completes Nation's First Live Commercial Network Test of License Assisted Access (LAA)
T-Mobile (News - Alert) (NASDAQ: TMUS) today notched yet another network first,
completing the nation's first mobile broadband data session live in the
field using License Assisted Access (LAA) on its commercial network. The
field testing, which began in Los Angeles yesterday, showed blazing 741
Mbps download speeds using 80 MHz of aggregated spectrum.
In addition, T-Mobile is the first national wireless provider to make
LTE-U available to customers. LTE-U uses publicly available 5 GHz
airwaves to bolster existing LTE capacity and give a speed boost to what
is already America's fastest, most advanced 4G LTE network. T-Mobile
LTE-U is live in select locations in Bellevue, WA; Brooklyn, NY;
Dearborn, MI; Las Vegas, NV; Richardson (News - Alert), TX; and Simi Valley, CA, with
more rolling out later this year.
For T-Mobile customers, LTE-U is all goodness-delivering even more
capacity and faster speeds. And there's no need to turn on or download
anything. It just works for T-Mobile customers in LTE-U locations with
compatible smartphones! LTE-U provides similar speed and capacity
benefits for consumers as the trifecta of technologies T-Mobile launched
last fall - Carrier Aggregation, 256 QAM (Quadrature Amplitud
Modulation) and 4x4 MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) - with less
licensed spectrum.
"LAA is the just the latest example of how T-Mobile is innovating the
way forward. While our competitors scramble to deal with the way
unlimited data plans are slowing down their networks, we're already
moving on to what's next," said Neville Ray (News - Alert), CTO at T-Mobile. "This
means that the fastest LTE network - that's T-Mobile - will only get
faster. I hope AT&T and Verizon like eating our dust!"
Earlier this year, the FCC (News - Alert) cleared the way for LTE in unlicensed
spectrum, enabling wireless providers to use unlicensed airwaves in the
5 GHz band that are frequently underutilized. LTE-U and LAA devices and
equipment intelligently tap into and share underutilized unlicensed
spectrum without affecting other users on the same band, including those
using conventional Wi-Fi. Building on years of research, development and
testing, T-Mobile immediately
began the rapid rollout of new network hardware to support LTE in
unlicensed spectrum.
LAA enables greater carrier aggregation than LTE-U, so mobile operators
can combine larger amounts of unlicensed and licensed spectrum. LAA will
allow T-Mobile to deliver even more bandwidth and faster speeds to
customers in the future. And, of course, T-Mobile is once again first to
use this LTE Advanced technology. The Un-carrier plans to further
densify its network with small cells which include LAA functionality
starting later this year.
For more information on T-Mobile's network, visit www.t-mobile.com/coverage.
Qualifying plan may be required. Typical nationwide download speeds are
25.6 Mbps according to T-Mobile's analysis of Ookla (News - Alert) Speedtest results
provided by Ookla, Jan-Mar 2017.
About T-Mobile US, Inc.
As America's Un-carrier, T-Mobile US, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS) is redefining
the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services through leading
product and service innovation. Our advanced nationwide 4G LTE network
delivers outstanding wireless experiences to 72.6 million customers who
are unwilling to compromise on quality and value. Based in Bellevue,
Washington, T-Mobile US provides services through its subsidiaries and
operates its flagship brands, T-Mobile and MetroPCS. For more
information, please visit http://www.t-mobile.com.
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