T-Mobile announced today that customers in Boston Massachusetts are the proud new owners of wideband LTE data pipelines that are bringing near 50% speed improvements to consumers. Wideband LTE doubles the bandwidth and increases the capacity of T-Mobile’s LTE network to improve all customers data speeds in the supported area. T-Mobile states the average customer download speed in the greater Boston area is hitting speeds of 24.1 Mbps down. That is nearly double what many get on their cable or DSL internet in their homes.
“Our T-Mobile customers in Boston are going to love the speed boost that Wideband LTE is bringing to their lives,†said Tom Ellefson, Vice President – Engineering, T-Mobile. “Whether posting to Instagram at a Celtics game, downloading the latest movie, checking in to Boston Harbor on Facebook or online shopping, every one of our T-Mobile LTE customers can immediately take advantage of this network upgrade on their mobile device or tablet.â€
Even more insane is that the press release states that some residents have seen peaks of 94 Mbps. I’d love to see a legitimate screenshot of that. Anyone in the greater Boston area care to weigh in on if you are seeing the boost?
