Sprint has activated what it calls the “first U.S. deployment of gigabit class LTE live on a commercial network” in its New Orleans market.
The service uses three-channel carrier aggregation and 60 MHz of Sprint’s 2.5 GHz spectrum in combination with 4X4 MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) and 256-QAM higher order modulation.
Sprint plans to use its 2.5 GHz spectrum to offer gigabit LTE service in high-traffic locations across the country.
With 204 MHz of spectrum, and more than 160 MHz of 2.5 GHz spectrum in the top 100 markets, Sprint has more licensed spectrum capacity to deploy Gigabit Class LTE than any other U.S. carrier, Sprint says.
In conjunction with unlimited usage plans, and assuming tethering is allowed, such moves are another shift in market dynamics that will make mobile access more competitive with fixed network access. Up to this point, the slower speeds and higher cost-per-gigabyte of mobile data, compared to fixed service, has sharply limited product substitution.
That now is changing.
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