Sprint claims that its LTE Plus network is the most improved wireless pipeline of 2017 Sprint Chief Operating Officer Günther Ottendorfer boasted today that Sprint's LTE Plus is the most improved network of 2017. The executive wrote that year-over-year its average download speed rose by 33%. In 25 of its 99 top markets, average download speed rose by 40% to 100% based on data taken from Ookla's Speedtest Intelligence. According to the COO, part of the improvement was due to the employment of more 2.5GHz spectrum by the carrier. Ottendorfer says that the more spectrum Sprint uses for its LTE Plus network, the faster the network becomes. One new tool soon to be in use on Sprint's LTE Plus network is Massive MIMO, which will debut in the first half of 2018. This adds additional data connections between a cell tower and a handset, increasing the carrier's capacity and allowing data speeds to increase. Currently in use is multiple carrier aggregation and beamforming. The f...