In the two years since the Sprint merger, T-Mobile has pushed forward with the deployment of its 5G network and is ahead of schedule and ahead of the competition, Neville Ray told the UBS Future of 5G Event live webcast last week.
T-Mobile’s next “big push” will be to roll out 5G in the PCS 1.9 GHz band, according to Ray. Together with the carrier’s AWS portfolio (1710-1755 and 2110-2155 MHz), it has 110 MHz of FDD spectrum.
Ray updated the audience on the carrier’s mid-band 2.5 GHz TDD spectrum coverage plans, which included 225 million people as of Q1. Its goal is to extend that number to 260 million by the end of the year, and 300 million by the end of 2023. T-Mobile now has an average of 100 MHz of spectrum across a nation dedicated to 5G in the mid band, which Ray said is more than AT&T and Verizon combined, and the T-Mobile 5G spectrum is expected to double by the end of 2023. Continue Reading |
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