T-Mobile, during a lab test last week, achieved download speed of 1.175 Gbps on T-Mobile’s LTE network utilizing Nokia’s 4.9G network powered by the Nokia AirScale Base Station together with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X20 LTE modem.
Nokia and Qualcomm will demonstrate the 1.2Gbps data rates at their booths at Mobile World Congress (MWC) Americas 2017 in San Francisco, from September 12 to 14.
Cristiano Amon, executive vice president, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and president, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, and Marc Rouanne, president of Mobile Networks, Nokia were part of the LTE demonstration.
What supported T-Mobile for 1.175 Gbps speed on LTE
# Nokia 4.9G powered by AirScale base station
# Snapdragon X20 LTE modem mobile test device, supporting Downlink Category 18 for peak download speeds up to 1.2 Gbps
# 12 independent streams of LTE data
# 4X4 MIMO, 256 QAM and three carrier aggregation across 60 MHz of downlink spectrum on T-Mobile’s network
“These tests with Nokia and Qualcomm Technologies prove that T-Mobile customers have a lot more speed to look forward to from our LTE network as we evolve to 5G,” said Neville Ray, CTO of T-Mobile.
The tests demonstrated that 4G technologies can deliver theoretical peak download speed of 1.2 Gbps using 12 simultaneous independent LTE data streams between the device and network.
