T-Mobile is combining more 5G bands for ridiculously fast network speeds
T-Cell is actually not afraid to tout its own 5G achievements, and, true to kind, it’s announcing another milestone today: by combining three channels of mid-band spectrum on its 5G community, the corporate achieved 3Gbps community speeds. This appears to be greater than a stunt, too. T-Cell says this expertise will grow to be accessible to clients on its community “later this yr.”
These 3Gbps (or 3,000Mbps) speeds are approaching mmWave territory — that’s the high-band, restricted vary sort of 5G that allows you to obtain a film in seconds. Mid-band 5G sometimes reaches round 200Mbps, which is taken into account superb in comparison with LTE. However T-Cell is doing a little bit tinkering behind the scenes to spice up these speeds considerably.
Extra particularly, it’s utilizing service aggregation to mix completely different swaths of spectrum. Don’t let the phrase “service” confuse you, both; that is T-Cell utilizing its personal spectrum. The corporate already makes use of this expertise to mix two 2.5GHz 5G channels on some components of its community, whereas this most up-to-date check ups speeds with an extra third channel.
Utilizing service aggregation to indicate off spectacular community speeds is nothing new. Verizon previously used the technology to exhibit speeds of 4.2Gbps on its 5G community in 2020. However T-Cell claims to be the primary to make use of three-carrier aggregation on a reside, standalone 5G community with a commercially accessible machine: the Samsung Galaxy S22. By the way, T-Cell subscribers with a Galaxy S22 might be “among the many first” to have the ability to use this distinctive taste of 5G when it arrives in additional locations later this yr.
