India, April 25 -- T-Mobile's CTO said that the operator expects to be able to roughly double the speeds it currently provides on its 600MHz LTE network when it switches on 5G services in the latter part of this year.
At least, that's what T-Mobile is expecting to offer on its own, without a merger with Sprint -- a situation that some analysts believe is increasingly likely given reports of regulatory opposition to the deal.
T-Mobile's Neville Ray said today on the operator's earnings conference call that T-Mobile is currently providing average speeds of around 30-35Mbit/s on its LTE network, and those speeds will increase to around 60-70Mbit/s when it launches 5G on around 30MHz of its 600MHz spectrum. Ray said T-Mobile would launch 5G i...