Telus inches closer to 1 Gb wireless speeds

VANCOUVER – Telus hit wireless speeds of nearly 1 Gbps in its downtown Vancouver 5G Living Lab last week, the company announced Wednesday.Telus said that it successfully completed the first test of Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) on indoor and outdoor live networks in Canada, delivering download speeds of 970 Mbps indoors and 966 Mbps outdoors using 80 MHz of aggregated spectrum in a live, dynamic production network.LAA is one of the key LTE Advanced Pro technologies that will enhance the Telus network as it continues to evolve toward next-generation 5G speeds. The technology works by combining licensed wireless spectrum with...