LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Sprint's
(NYSE: S) Next-Gen Network investment is taking hold across
Los Angeles. As the company
prepares to launch Sprint 5G in Los
Angeles in the first half of 2019, customers today are
experiencing Sprint's best-ever LTE Advanced network with new
independent tests showing Sprint has the most improved network and
fastest download speeds.
In recent testing by RootMetrics®, Sprint
demonstrated the fastest download speeds in Los Angeles.1 Indoor and outdoor
testing was conducted during peak-usage hours during the day in the
busiest areas of Los Angeles.
Samples were collected in iconic tourist areas, top travel
destinations, business districts, retail shops, major entertainment
areas, and other high-traffic areas. The end result is testing that
shows how carriers perform in the busiest parts of Los Angeles, and the results also evaluate how
well networks are prepared for upcoming 5G and IoT deployments.
Additionally, analysis of Nielsen drive test data shows
Sprint has the most improved network in Los Angeles with an 87% increase in download
speeds year-over-year.2
Sprint's Next-Gen Network Investment in Los Angeles
This year, Sprint has spent
billions on its Next-Gen Network build, unleashing the company's
strong spectrum holdings to dramatically improve coverage, speed
and reliability for its customers. Across Los Angeles, Sprint continues to add new cell
sites and upgrade existing cell sites to use all three of its
spectrum bands (800 MHz, 1.9 GHz and 2.5 GHz) to improve coverage
and provide its fastest, most reliable service. The company
recently deployed 800 MHz service on more than 800 cell sites in
Southern California and
Los Angeles (with more on the
way) to extend voice and data coverage into more locations,
including indoors where the majority of wireless traffic is
generated.
Sprint has also added hundreds of indoor and outdoor small
cells in downtown Los Angeles
to deliver even more coverage, capacity and speed than before using
unobtrusive units on telephone poles, street lights and other
infrastructure. And Sprint continues to enhance service in
Los Angeles' public venues. This
year the company upgraded to LTE Advanced systems covering the LA
Convention Center, LA Forum, StubHub Center, Staples Center and
Disneyland. Sprint also continues to add coverage to the LA Metro
Rail system as lines continue to expand.
In addition, Sprint has rolled out LTE Advanced technologies
including 256 QAM, 4X4 MIMO, enhanced Beamforming with Transmission
Mode 9 (TM9) and two- and three-channel Carrier Aggregation for
faster data speeds than before. In addition, Sprint is enhancing
its upload speeds with capabilities such as Uplink Carrier
Aggregation, 64 QAM and High Performance User Equipment (HPUE).
These technologies provide the foundation for Sprint's LTE
Advanced capabilities, now available nationwide and delivering
up to 2X faster speeds on capable devices.3 They have
also helped make Los Angeles one
of 225 cities where Sprint offers incredible Gigabit Class LTE
performance for customers on capable devices.
"LA is now home to some of the most advanced technologies in
wireless, giving Sprint customers an even better data experience
today as we prepare to launch 5G in the first half of 2019,"
said Eamon O'Leary, Sprint's vice president for Network, West
Region. "Customers' demand for data continues to grow, and we're
excited to offer even faster movie, music and game downloads all on
a network that's built for unlimited."
Sprint 5G Coming to LA!
Sprint's execution of its
award-winning 5G strategy is well underway. The company is
deploying 5G-ready Massive MIMO radios in Los Angeles to launch its mobile 5G service in
the first half of 2019.
Massive MIMO is a breakthrough technology that dramatically
improves the capacity of Sprint's LTE Advanced network with
equipment that is software upgradable to 5G. Sprint's 64T64R
Massive MIMO radios support split-mode, enabling the company to
offer LTE and 5G simultaneously on the same radio. Initial results
from early deployments show Massive MIMO is driving a 4X average
increase in capacity and speed with peak increases up to 10X over
LTE.
5G promises new levels of innovation and progress to connect
people, places and the billions of things Sprint customers do with
blazing fast speed and ultra-reliable wireless connectivity. With
Massive MIMO at the foundation of its mobile 5G service, Sprint can
keep meeting its customers' demand for unlimited data and
high-bandwidth applications.
To follow Sprint's Next-Gen Network build out and its road to
5G, visit http://newsroom.sprint.com/network/.
About Sprint:
Sprint (NYSE: S) is a communications
services company that creates more and better ways to connect
its customers to the things they care about most. Sprint
served 54.5 million connections as of Sept.
30, 2018 and is widely recognized for developing,
engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including the
first wireless 4G service from a national carrier in the United States; leading no-contract brands
including Virgin Mobile USA, Boost
Mobile, and Assurance Wireless; instant national and international
push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier 1 Internet backbone.
Today, Sprint's legacy of innovation and service continues with an
increased investment to dramatically improve coverage, reliability,
and speed across its nationwide network and commitment to launching
the first 5G mobile network in the U.S. You can learn more and
visit Sprint at www.sprint.com or www.facebook.com/sprint and
www.twitter.com/sprint.
1 RootMetrics Los
Angeles, CA Metro testing: 2H 2018. Chart represents Median
Downlink Throughput speed. Tested with best commercially available
smartphones on 4 national mobile networks across all available
network types. Your experiences may vary. The RootMetrics award is
not an endorsement of Sprint. Visit www.rootmetrics.com for
more details.
2 Sprint's analysis of Nielsen's Drive Test data in
Los Angeles MSA for GET3 speeds (10 seconds 1GB parallel file
download testing network capability) comparing 2017 D1 to latest
drive.
3 Compared to Sprint 4G LTE.
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