SEATTLE: For a couple of minutes in a small, nondescript T-Mobile US conference room, the future of wireless is here.
Two phone-book sized pieces of equipment stand about eight feet apart, one representing a cell tower, the other the smartphone of the future. A nearby screen shows the transceiver is beaming download speeds that peak at 2,208 megabits per second – fast enough to grab a high-definition film in about 10 seconds – and much faster than the 12 megabits-per-second standard for LTE smartphones now.
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