T-Mobile just fired another salvo across Verizon’s bow, saying that big red’s LTE Advanced cellular network is nothing of the sort.
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Turns out that a free Subway sandwich isn’t the only gift that T-Mobile is giving its customers today. T-Mobile knows this and has steadily been working on their existing LTE network to make it faster, and add more capacity. For those unaware, MIMO stands for multiple input, multiple output. The company has announced an improvement to their LTE network that should double the maximum theoretical throughput speeds for downloads from 200 megabits per second to 400.
Announced by T-Mobile, the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge will be the first to see these potential speed boosts, thanks to an update that will come later this month.
We’re back in NY this November for the 4th edition of our growth-focused technology event. Half of T-Mobile’s network supports 256 QAM and 64 QAM, with plans to have the features available across all of T-Mo’s network by the end of October. As with 4×4 MIMO, customers on the S7 and S7 edge will get access to the upgraded technology first via a software update in October.
The company is getting ready to boost its maximum theoretical internet speeds top become the faster carrier in the U.S. by a wide margin.
The other new feature being rolled out by T-Mobile is 256 QAM for download and 64 QAM for upload.
T-Mobile claims to be more advanced, faster, offering unlimited offers with more cell sites and more spectrum per customer than Verizon, while carrying 55 percent more data per customer than Verizon. “We put new technology to work for our customers in the field, not in press releases”. T-Mobile is getting this information from crowdsourced reports from Ookla and OpenSignal.
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While Sprint and Verizon have both boasted peak speeds of around 300 mbps with three-channel carrier aggregation, Ray said the combination of T-Mobile’s 4×4 MIMO and 256 QAM technologies offers download speeds of up to 400 mbps.
