Huawei hits record 5G speed of 3.67Gbps on live Swiss C-Band network
While most carriers in the U.S. initially focused on launching 5G networks based on short-distance millimeter wave hardware, Asian and European carriers have deployed 5G using “sub-6GHz” radio frequencies — longer-range signals that might compromise on speed. But Huawei today announced that it has achieved a 5G download speed milestone without using millimeter wave technology: 3.67 Gigabytes per second on a live 5G network in Zurich, Switzerland.
The feat was achieved across multiple 5G smartphones connected to a single 5G cell on Swiss carrier Sunrise’s live commercial network, Huawei says, which is to say that the remarkable transfer speed isn’t theoretical or coming from a lab environment. Prior millimeter wave 5G tests run by carriers on live U.S. commercial networks have achieved speeds north of 2Gbps, though independent tests have generally seen low- to mid-1Gbps peaks — wireless speeds that are still much faster than the vast majority of U.S. home broadband connections based on wired hardware.
