The test used 400 MHz bandwidth in the 11 GHz spectrum, and although only uplink transmissions were trialled, the operator said 10Gbps downlink speeds should be possible with the same equipment.

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Cohen says the company will test several alternative approaches to giving customers more bandwidth.

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Because the experiment was designed to test the ability of current networks to carry high-bandwidth data, no explicit QoS support was employed.

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