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Lucent Places First UMTS Data Call In US Spectrum

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May 3, 2002, 12:37 PM by (staff)

Lucent Technologies this week announced it has completed the industry's first high-speed data call on commercial UMTS wireless equipment operating in the 1900 MHz (PCS) spectrum band. Lucent successfully tested a variety of services, including video streaming. The tests achieved speeds of up to 384 kilobits per second (kbps). UMTS is the 3G standard chosen by GSM operators around the world. US GSM operators, including AT&T Wireless, Cingular, and VoiceStream, have all announced plans to move to UMTS, although there have been concerns about how to make UMTS work within available US spectrum.

Dec 1, 2021
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Verizon Ready to Light up More Mid-Band 5G Using Band 48

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T-Mobile Adds More Overseas and Inflight Data to its Plans

Jun 16, 2022
Starting June 21st, T-Mobile's most popular plans will include more and/or faster data while overseas, as well as inflight on major US airlines. T-Mobile's most premium plan, Magenta Max , gets the biggest upgrades, with 5 GB of international high-speed data each month — up to 5G speeds where available — in 210+ countries and destinations.

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