T-Mobile has once again raised the bar for 5G speeds, reaching record-breaking download speeds in recent network tests. The wireless carrier hit 4.3 Gbps on a Samsung Galaxy S25 and an even more impressive 6.3 Gbps using a test device powered by Qualcomm’s newest X85 5G modem. To put that into perspective—at these speeds, you could stream every Super Bowl ever played in 8K … [read full article]
T-Mobile has achieved a new world record today. This time, it has set a record for its 5G upload speeds. Thanks to its partnership with Ericsson and Qualcomm, T-Mobile was able to reach a peak upload speed of 2.2Gbps on its 5G network in a testing done at the SoFi Stadium in California. This was achieved through a new technology called 5G DC. As T-Mobile says, this is the fastest 5G upload speed to be ever recorded. … [read full article]
T-Mobile has achieved another 5G first– a data call leveraging uplink 5G carrier aggregation using its nationwide 5G standalone (SA) network. In tests, T-Mo’s engineers were able to reach uplink speeds of 207 Mbps, which is the fastest with sub-6 GHz spectrum. In its release, T-Mobile revealed that they were able to achieve this thanks to its partnership with Nokia and Qualcomm. With the speed they reached, T-Mo conquered a first on a live commercial 5G standalone … [read full article]
T-Mobile is getting ready to launch XR. And while they are still working on making this happen, the Un-carrier is giving us a glimpse of how this technology could change our future. Just recently, T-Mobile’s EVP of Advanced and Emerging Technologies, John Saw, published a blog post that highlights the innovation of XR. Not to mention, T-Mobile was chosen as the lead 5G partner of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer Platform. Some of the ways XR can … [read full article]
T-Mobile has been placing a lot of focus on 5G over the past year, launching its mmWave coverage and then its nationwide 600MHz 5G network and now using Sprint’s 2.5GHz spectrum to augment its network. Now T-Mo is … [read full article]
After competing the first low-band 5G data session on a commercial 5G modem in a lab earlier this month, T-Mobile has now taken its testing outside. T-Mobile has completed the first low-band 5G data call on a commercial modem in the field. This test used 600MHz spectrum, which we know T-Mo is planning to use to build … [read full article]
T-Mobile, Qualcomm, and Ericsson have teamed up to reach another 5G milestone. The three companies announced today that they’ve achieved the world’s first low-band 5G data session on a commerical 5G modem. The data session was completed on 600MHz spectrum at T-Mobile’s lab in Bellevue, WA using a mobile test device with a … [read full article]
There’s been an awful lot of 5G news this week as Qualcomm introduced its new Snadpragon 855 processor with X50 5G modem, but we haven’t heard much about T-Mobile 5G. That’s changing today. Qualcomm president Cristiano Amon has said that the Snapdragon 855 processor with X50 modem will support “all of the first half of 2019 launches.” As [read full article]
T-Mobile supports a variety of devices on its network, including smartphones, tablets, and wearables, and now it’s committed to supporting another form factor. Qualcomm today confirmed that T-Mobile has said that it will support Always Connected PCs. These devices will run Windows 10 and will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors, like the 835. According to Qualcomm, these Always Connected PCs will offer benefits … [read full article]
Last year saw Apple use two different modems in its iPhone models, one from Intel and one from Qualcomm, and there was a difference between the modems’ LTE performance. Many were wondering what the modem situation would like with this year’s iPhone hardware, and now it looks like we’ve got our answer. Cellular Insights compared the LTE performance of two [read full article]
