T‑Mobile using LG VELVET 5G combines Sub‑6 GHz 5G using NR Carrier Aggregation | expands N41 range! By The Techxtremist

Welcome to in the tech news today I wanted to talk about something that was reported yesterday. It was a direct press release from T-Mobile and everybody caught on to it. It's good stuff. You know it's good news, but I think that everybody kind of missed the most important part of what was released yesterday, all right. So let's go ahead and read the headline: T-Mobile Ericsson, lg and MediaTek achieve a world's first with lg velvet 5g combining sub 6 gigahertz 5g with carrier aggregation. So you know some big things there.

First off, this was MediaTek achieving this with T-Mobile and Ericsson and using lg velvet, which so some significant things there, the mediate kit wasn't a x60, so that was big and then the lg velvet 5g uh. You know not a high-end phone, so that was big news as well, so good stuff, you're thinking hey. That is a big deal. That's what was important about this news and then, of course, being able to combine sub six gigahertz spectrum for faster speeds was another big news, but I would argue that there was something else that was bigger than that. That wasn't really widely reported, and it had to do with the fact that they are trying to do something here, or at least they reported doing something here.

That sprint was trying to do on LTE with band 25 and band 41 and what it was. It was basically using band 41 for capacity and band 25 for the uplink now so for people that don't know this mid, you know mid-band spectrum and high. You know higher frequency spectrum and even four millimeter waves. This is true. The down link is not very difficult to reach if that makes any sense.

So your connection to the know, the antenna to the phone on the down link is relatively easy, even at higher frequencies. What's difficult is the uplink, especially when you're talking about mid and higher frequencies? That's what's difficult because you have to understand the phone only has so much power to transmit. You know, phones have small batteries, and it doesn't matter how efficient the phone is. You still need power to transmit. Okay, it's just the way it works.

So, with this test, what they were able to do is combine n41 with n71 5g and the uplink was handled by n71 again. That is extremely significant for the fact that it's going to allow n41 to reach greater distances. So, in my opinion, that was the biggest take or the biggest part of this report or this press release that I don't really think too many caught on to and that's what's going to be more significant than anything now imagine this n41 in rural areas with a deployment that is not as expensive as it otherwise would have been for T-Mobile. That is what is significant here. It's going to allow the deployment of a mid-band like n41 in more areas.

Now this is not just significant for T-Mobile. This is also significant for Verizon and for ATT because they have mid-man holdings and then Verizon is expected to get more in the auction. So that's what was important to me in this particular article, all right so again, specifically sub six gigahertz. Let me clarify that being able to combine n41, which is 25, 500, megahertz and n71, which is 600. Megahertz is extremely significant.

You can imagine, Verizon is going to do it with whatever mid-band spectrum comes their way, and you know 700 megahertz spectrum, for example. In the case of T-Mobile. Excuse me Verizon and ATT. So that's going to be significant. It's kind of it means that these mid-band deployments might be much more widespread or more widespread than they otherwise would have been.

So to me. That was a real, significant part of this news. So let's go ahead scroll down here, so let's just go ahead and read their article here, a little. What's the news working with Erickson lg and media tech, T-Mobile pulled off the world's first 5g standalone data session, with new radio carrier aggregation on a commercial smartphone, the lg velvet 5g, and why it matters instead of connecting to one piece of T-Mobile's 5g network at a time which is significant. NACA combines the power of the m carrier's, 2.5 gigahertz, mid-band again in Verizon's 98 t's case. Just imagine another band, another mid-band with its 600 megahertz, low band spectrum for improved for performance and greater speeds and more places whoare it for anyone who wants game, changing 5g performance and more places.

That is indeed true all right. So again, that's that's. What's important to me is the fact that it's going to be able to reach much further distances than it otherwise would have so now the whole thing about MediaTek being the one that was a test, that's significant as well, because that means that there's another player now it'll remain to be seen. You know if MediaTek can become competitive with Qualcomm because Qualcomm you, you can imagine they're going to have this on the x60 right I mean I'm sure it is I'm not not 100. I don't remember the exact details that have been released so far about that modem, but I'm sure the x60 is gonna.

Have this so again, this is gonna. Make the deployment of these mid-band networks a lot easier for these carriers, because all they have to do is worry about the down link on the mid-band which, even though it's not millimeter, wave, transmitting back to it from a phone is still more. You know it takes a lot more power than it would with 600 megahertz. It's just the way. It is it's just physics all right, but anyway, real good stuff I'll go ahead and leave a link down in the description area.

So you can go ahead and read this for yourselves. But again, the significance of this is going to be the reach that these mid-band. You know, uh, uh bands. Are you know that mid-band is going to be able to achieve being paired with low band? Of course, we already have seen this with LTE, but the significance is that it's 5g and, of course you can use wider channels, so you're going to be able to. You know to open up some pretty good channels, and maybe rural areas- that's what's exciting to me, and maybe even home internet right.

So who knows, but anyway, I really appreciate you all watching hit like subscribe comment. Make sure you hit that ring notification bell. You all have a good one.

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