T-Mobile announced earlier this year that it would begin supporting LTE-U sometime this spring, and today the company announced that it’s making good on its word, as it starts rolling out support for the new wireless standard in six cities.
T-Mobile rolls out LTE-U support in six cities
If you live in Bellevue, WA; Brooklyn, NY; Dearborn, MI; Las Vegas, NV; Richardson, TX; or Simi Valley, CA and have a compatible device — which for now, is only the Samsung Galaxy S8 — you’ll be able to take advantage of the faster speeds through LTE-U.
If you need a refresher, LTE-U, or LTE-Unlicensed, is part of the LTE Advanced standard, which takes advantage of unused frequency from the 5 GHz band of spectrum (typically used by Wi-Fi routers) for faster LTE service.
In addition to the LTE-U rollout, T-Mobile also announced that it has successfully tested License Assisted Access — a next generation version of LTE-U that also utilizes the 5GHz band — in field tests for download speeds of up to 741 Mbps, although that technology is still far away from commercial deployments.
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