Sprint today said it has doubled the availability of its LTE Plus coverage from 77 markets in November to more than 150 markets today.
Some of the new markets include Boulder, Colo., West Palm Beach, Fla., Cleveland, Ohio, and Syracuse, N.Y. LTE Plus is the new brand name for what used to be Sprint Spark. LTE Plus is the company’s tri-band LTE network, which uses 800MHz, 1.9GHz, and 2.5GHz.
Sprint is using carrier aggregation to increase capacity and beamforming to improve connections between cell sites and handsets. Sprint says these techniques have helped improve speeds and performance across its network.
Sprint has more than a dozen handsets able to take advantage of these technologies, including the Apple iPhone 6s and Samsung Galaxy S6.
