So far, pretty much everyone in the industry measured channel bandwidths in what either the downlink or the uplink channel provides. A UMTS channel thus always had a bandwidth of 5 MHz despite twice the spectrum being used, 5 MHz for the downlink and another 5 MHz for the uplink. Sometimes this was also described as 2 x 5 MHz. But it seems some in the US are now adding uplink and downlink together as for example in this Gigaom article. A small 5 MHz LTE carrier now has a bandwidth of 10 MHz. Sounds nice when comparing it to other US network operators that in their words also use 10 MHz LTE carriers, which are, of course 2 x 10 MHz. So by those standards network operators in Europe using the 1800 or 2600 MHz bands already have 40 MHz LTE deployed! That sounds nice! After 4G, Real 4G, True 4G and LTE-Advanced it's the latest smoke bomb to confuse the world and make yourself look better than you really are. Sigh…