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A new network test conducted by Vodafone hopes to persuade European lawmakers to reserve the upper 6 GHz band for mobile.
The UK-based telco took a smartphone equipped with an off-the-shelf MediaTek M90 modem and – using 200 MHz of 6-GHz spectrum and carrier aggregation – managed to achieve a peak downlink speed of 2.5 Gbps.
"Allocating the upper 6 GHz spectrum band for 5G and 6G would give European citizens among the fastest mobile connectivity in the world," Vodafone declared.
Uplink weighed in at a decidedly more modest 50-180 Mbps, although Voda pointed out that these results were achieved when the bulk of the bandwidth had been allocated to downlink transmission.
