Are you familiar with those 5G speed and availability reports that rarely match your actual mobile network experience and are always dominated by T Mobile at the national and sometimes global level? Well, the industry-leading “Un-carrier” is now showing success even more difficult for everyday users to replicate, claiming an insane peak of “above 3.6 Gbps” during a test call made leveraging revolutionary six-carrier aggregation technology.
As Magenta enthusiastically points out, that kind of “breathtaking” speed would be enough to download a two-hour HD movie in “less than 7 seconds”… if that were actually achievable outside of a controlled testing environment.
Unfortunately, that's not currently the case and may never become an easily accessible reality, which doesn't make T-Mo's latest technological feat any less remarkable. Indeed, combining six 5G channels of mid-band spectrum will likely soon be possible, helping you get faster speeds than currently on America's best mobile network.
These are unlikely to reach 3.6 Gbps (or 2.6, or even 1.6) in most everyday scenarios, but what is important to note is that T Mobile is absolutely not resting on its laurels and continues to put as much effort as always into widening the 5G speed and coverage gap. Verizon and AT&T.
This six-carrier aggregation achievement of course follows in the footsteps of a four-carrier aggregation deployment that began last year, delivering (theoretical) speeds of over 3.3 Gbps to cement the reputation of T-Mo as a global pioneer and pioneer in terms of revolutionary 5G technologies.
The rather simple but difficult to implement idea here is naturally to merge as many 5G channels as possible in order to extract as much capacity as possible from a network that already covers “more than 330 million people over two million miles squares” without having to do so. to resort to high-band waves (aka mmWave) which do not travel as far and as wide as mid-band spectrum.
The results are mmWave-level speeds you can actually get on your phone inside buildings, on the road, at school, or at your workplace, and while 6-carrier aggregation isn't still technically ready for mass deployment, T Mobile is working on it, as well as many other achievements and unparalleled advancements in 5G.
