Data cruising at 1.26 Gbps on 5G mmWave
Verizon has achieved an upload speed of 1.26 Gbps in lab testing of its 5G Ultra Wideband technology, reports the Converge Digest. Focusing on the customer experience, with currently available phones and tablets, a live network tested use of the 20 MHz of LTE spectrum and 400 MHz of mmWave spectrum from the 28 GHz band. Past trials have shown extraordinary download speeds with various combinations of spectrum reaching 4.3 Gbps download speeds by aggregating Verizon’s mid-band C-band spectrum with high band mmWave spectrum.
Verizon has C-Band licenses for between 140-200 MHz in all available markets, and began in the first 46 areas deploying up to 60 MHz, quickly expanding to an additional 30 markets deploying up to 100 MHz in many of those. Over the next few years, as additional spectrum from satellite operators becomes an option, Verizon could run 5G Ultra Wideband on all available bandwidth that it has licensed, up to 200 MHz. Every piece of equipment being used in its trial is capable of using the full 200 MHz of bandwidth. When the full breadth of spectrum is accessed, Verizon said customers can expect peak download speeds to reach 2.4 Gbps, rather than the 900 Mbps experienced with 60 megahertz deployed.
“We have achieved remarkable speed in downloading using various combinations of spectrum in our world-class spectrum portfolio,” said Adam Koeppe, Senior Vice President of Technology Planning at Verizon. “This new achievement indicates how much additional performance we can unleash for our customers on the uplink as we aggregate different combinations of spectrum.”