Guys we need to talk about a feature in phones that nobody seems to be talking about
Gigabit LTE now as the name implies
It's LTE that is capable of delivering up to 1 gigabit per second speeds now
I managed to in San Francisco in the real world not a lab get over 400 megabits per second. Let me explain
Essentially there are a few LTE technologies that Qualcomm has managed to put into their chipsets and OAM
Devices as well as the carriers have managed to implement on their network side that when all of them are working together and like this
perfect storm of tech
It enables the phones the ones out right now to get ridiculous speeds the tech I'm referring to is carrier aggregation
Which is the ability for a carrier to utilize multiple frequencies on their towers to be able to send data to and from your phone?
essentially widening the amount of the lanes on the highway that you can use
256 qualm they call it which is a way for there to be 33% more data per packet
Which means basically less trucks on the road and my mo?
4x4 which is the concept of having four antennas in the phone to not just be able to pick up signal better
But also increase the speed since there are more ports for the device to use to send and receive data
Now technically if all three of these features are enabled on your phone and on the tower boom gigabit LTE speeds
But there is a bonus feature
It's called laa or licensed assisted
access that allows carriers to use their license spectrum their radio waves and combined with bands of
Unlicensed spectrum the frequencies that are allowed to be used by anyone to further increase speeds
And this just makes it that much more likely to get to the top end of those theoretical 1 gigabit speeds
Using a phone with this built in and being near one of those laa
towers with all of the other features enabled in San Francisco
I was hitting over 400 megabits per second easy now compare that to the national average of about
23 megabits per second, and I think you get the idea
Which is insane? I mean the possibilities of that kind of speed on your mobile device are awesome
And it also has other benefits for everybody else on the network, but first let's talk about the speed now perhaps
You're at an airport and boarding gets called
But you forgot to download your entertainment for the flight instead of using the airport Wi-Fi
which is usually crap you can connect to your phone and
Download a game and even maybe an entire season of a show before your group is called working
You're studying from a coffee shop well. Let's forget the crappy Wi-Fi speeds in there and tether to the phone instead
Hey
give everybody in the cafe Wi-Fi with those kinds of speeds and bandwidth you could all be streaming 4k movies at the same time and
not slow
Any of you down to that point the average download speed of a person's home internet in the US as of September 7th of this
Year is about 64 megabits per second now
This is way faster than that even and so with this new tech
I feel like we might actually be at the tipping point where mobile data is starting to surpass
broadband
Also, that speed is pushing past read/write speeds on your average mobile device
Which means?
Technically you can grab data from the cloud
Faster than what's stored on your?
Actual local phone now this means that app developers can use that instead of your precious internal storage to house data
Perform computations on more powerful servers and send the results back etc
Even beyond that what about new levels of streaming quality with that speed and the super low latency of gigabit LTE
Streaming 4k 360 content to multiple devices over the tower airwaves not an issue and it's not just about speed
Because of the way that it's designed it's actually also more reliable in areas that don't have great coverage, too
And we've all been that situation think of the difference between being able to stream YouTube
Versus staring at the buffering symbol now remember. I said Qualcomm's gigabit LTE can help other people in the network, too
Well as more and more devices on the network become gigabit LTE enabled it ends up increasing speeds across the board
Even for non gigabit devices because the gigabit devices are able to access what they want on the network
Faster get off the spectrum faster and relieve congestion for everybody now
Maybe you've heard of 5g the next like big jump in the data tech for smartphones and basically everything
Think of this, maybe then is kind of four-and-a-half G. It's a stepping stone between what we have now and
5g which is coming soon
and it's an important one now gigabit LTE is a way of ensuring that as
5g is rolled out like 4G was and you lose a 5g connection you're still getting awesome speeds
Okay, so when where and how David?
well the short answer is now in a lot of places already and
pretty easily the longer answer is that this tech is already in a bunch of flagship phones that you already know and
All of the major operators are rolling it out
Not just in the US but in over 25 countries and that number is increasing rapidly
remember the concept of gigabit LTE relieving congestion on the network the
Operators are psyched about that and it's a big factor in them pushing this out as fast as they are
It's really a win for everyone as for the how
Simply out of the link I left below to check out all of the devices that are capable of doing this new awesome feature
And then maybe next time you're in a Best Buy or another store
Make sure to ask the guy for one of these devices and then boom you got the feature there you go guys
Now when Qualcomm approached me about this. I was I was like. This is crazy
They showed it to me like an on demo version like an actual just like here
We are on the street this works, and I was like people need to know about this, right
Let me know if you guys think though in the comments about gigabit LTE and all this stuff
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