T-Mobile US reaches nearly 1 Gbps in latest LTE lab test

(Telecompaper) T-Mobile US said it's achieved nearly 1 Gbps over the LTE network in a lab test in the past week. The operator reached 973 Mbps with a combination of tri-carrier aggregation, 4x4 MIMO and 256 QAM with an un-released handset to achieve what it says is the fastest speed possible on a mobile device today. The news was announced in a blog post by CTO Neville Ray highlighting the operator's latest network achievements. He said T-Mobile's 4G network now covers 313 million people, just b