T-Mobile doubles its LTE speeds, capacity in at least 40 major cities

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T-Mobile customers in the country’s biggest cities may have recently noticed their 4G speeds boosted considerably.

On T-Mobile’s Q3 earnings call, CEO John Legere revealed that it has doubled the amount of spectrum used by its LTE networks in 40 of the top 50 US metro markets, effectively doubling the theoretical speeds of its 4G service and dramatically increasing the overall capacity available to its customers. T-Mobile is now using 20 MHz of Advanced Wireless Service (AWS) spectrum for LTE in these upgraded cities, which puts its networks on par with the systems launched by Verizon Wireless and AT&T. Those carriers are adding capacity and boosting speeds on their networks as well, but T-Mobile has another surprise in store. Legere said the carrier in 2014 will double its LTE bandwidth again in the biggest cities, launching 40 MHz networks in at least 22 of the top 25 markets.


T-Mobile doubles its LTE speeds, capacity in at least 40 major cities