Carrier Band 71 and the iPhone?

[nviz22]

For those on T-Mobile USA, how important is it to you that the new iPhones have Band 71 coverage?

 

[Banglazed]

It depends on your area if it is already deployed but as for the Bay Area it might not be available until 2020. In this case, not important yet. You can check out howmobileworks.com for deployment and it’s possible this year iPhones may have this capability.

 

[Reno Raines]

For me not as much as I use my iPhone for calls, text, music, light web browsing. Where I live I can get 100 mbps’s down so for what I use it for it seems like my iPhone is already turbo charged. I can’t even imagine what band 71 may do if my phone had it.

 

[Andres Cantu]

For those on T-Mobile USA, how important is it to you that the new iPhones have Band 71 coverage?

It should be a deal-breaker, in my opinion, if it didn’t have it, since many cheap Android phones do.

If the iPhone 9 has the same modem as the 8, based on the 2x2 MIMO rumor from Ming-Chi Kuo, then to me that spells trouble for that model (no gigabit in a $700 device is bad enough, especially when the S8 in early 2017 had it).

It would be inexcusable for a 2018 device not to have band 71.

 

[nviz22]

It should be a deal-breaker, in my opinion, if it didn’t have it, since many cheap Android phones do.

If the iPhone 9 has the same modem as the 8, based on the 2x2 MIMO rumor from Ming-Chi Kuo, then to me that spells trouble for that model (no gigabit in a $700 device is bad enough, especially when the S8 in early 2017 had it).

It would be inexcusable for a 2018 device not to have band 71.

For me, it really depends on pricing. Considering 5G will be prominent in about 2 years or so, I may just suck it up and get the LCD model or the 2017 X. I'll use my next phone for at least 2-3 years anyways.

 

[kevink2]

I would not consider switching again to T-Mobile unless I had a phone that supported it. I've seen reports that there is B71 support in Oklahoma.