Sprint Gigabit LTE is Born, First Commercial Launch in New Orleans

A new mobile broadband experience took place in New Orleans (LA) March 8, with the unveiling of Sprint Gigabit LTE. The new service, which is seen as an evolutionary step towards 5G, delivers much faster mobile broadband, with some caveats. Sprint and its technology partners, Qualcomm and Motorola, say this is the first commercial deployment of Gigabit Class LTE in the US. Sprint is using their 2.5 MHz spectrum for the service, of which they have very deep holdings – over 204 MHz, 160 of which are concentrated in the top 100 US markets.