They’re gonna cover 60% of America’s population in mid band 5G in 9 months? Ya, sure they will.
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T-Mobile Aiming to Cover 90% of Americans With 'Ultra Capacity 5G' By 2023
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AT&T has improved a lot since then. I get 300/300 Mbps fiber through them. I should get a usable coverage a quarter-mile away from El Camino Real and 0.75-mile away from T-Mobile tower facing my direction.
I'd be pretty happy if they could get more than 2 bars of LTE in most of Portland and Seattle. The bandwidth has dropped year over year for a while.
I went through that tunnel a few times in February on a trip to NYC and the Lincoln tunnel while there. Never lost coverage with T-Mobile. Was fine the entire time, they made a lot of progress over the past year from when I was there February 2020. The only place I had no service was on the D train going into Brooklyn.
That's a nice area, and I live pretty close! Fortunately there is the free city wifi there.
I think T-Mobile's coverage of the Bay Area in general isn't great. It was awful in Berkeley.
T-Mobiles in door reception is so awful, its pretty much useless. Thank goodness most of the places I go to already have Wi-Fi. I can safely say 5G is probably this decades biggest loser. Not even the iPhone could save it. You can bet your bottom dollar, when the time comes for 6G, you likely won't even hear about it, its just gonna show up and no big event and no Apple event where all your hear is 6G, 6G, 6G, 6G...... for 10 minutes.
Not for me it isn’t! I get great service indoors everywhere I go!
Upon further thinking I'm guessing "ending" means they are ending the giant expansion of those types of sites and won't be rapidly building more of them. When I first read it I thought it meant they were ending them as in no longer going to use them.
So it is increasingly look like America wont fix their ISP, but mobile operator are here to compete?
Not sure about the other carriers competing. I would guess they all want to leave wireline behind because of the infrastructure cost, but mostly they are also very slow to upgrade their network, while t-mobile seems to be able to do it again and again. It wasn't so long ago their network was good in many areas and bad in many.
I’m not an expert in anything related business or networks, but very curious why would they lay down their cards like that? So that other companies get a hint and start racing towards similar offerings too? Why just not get 90%+ ultra something something and by 2023 drop the hammer saying “hey everybody, we got this! Come!” taking everybody by surprise.
They need to reach 200 million to get to that 60% goal. They already cover 125 million people, so they're over 50% to that goal. They need to reach 75 million more over the next 9.5 months.
Guess what T-Mobile got from their acquisition of Sprint: a lot of mid-band spectrum. All they need to do is transition the remaining Sprint (CDMA network) customers over to T-Mobile's GSM network and then turn that Sprint mid-band spectrum into 5G for T-Mobile. The towers are already in place.
T-Mobile already announced that they'll be completely shutting off CDMA network by Jan. 2022.
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Sprint didn’t have enough cash to deploy the full footprint, I think most major metro areas had coverage. I had 2.5ghz LTE in Vegas for sure
I will NEVER go back to T-mobile, their customer service is complete garbage, the amount of f'up was monumental. their service rep never do what they said on the phone, i ordered 4 lines, they gave me 6, i traded in 3 iphones, they counted 1, claim i never shipped the other 2. even though i used their shipping package, and their shipping label. almost had to take them to small claims court to settle. like others said, you get what you paid for.
For me when they made the stupid fake change my service actually got worse than when it was LTE or their 5GE. They claim my area has it but so far it's all trash.
It's the sprint touch of death. It killed off MCI, Nextel, and now T-Mobile. It's toxic. T-Mobile Tuesday was bad enough, but LOL, they made tracking opt-out AND made it impossible to opt-out while blocking trackers. They can pound sand.
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The problem is statements like this are meaningless, covering 90%, 95%, even 97% is just marketing. To accomplish this they just have to cover cities and towns, avoiding anything further afield or rural. Hence why its % of AMERICANS rather than a much more meaningful and useful, 90% coverage of the USA (as in, land coverage).
The (cable/fibre) ISP market is broken in the USA. Regional monopolies with little/no competition mean there is little incentive to improve and upgrade. Wireless technologies (5G, satellite) will become dominant, especially outside of big cities.
This is why we’ve stuck with Verizon. Don’t get me wrong, they do their own marketing shenanigans. They’re also not the fastest in a lot of areas. But their *total* coverage is still second to none (AT&T is close though). I would rather have slower average speeds and coverage everywhere than have the fastest speeds with a higher likelihood of losing service altogether when traveling in certain areas. T-Mobile has improved significantly over the last few years but still doesn’t have the broad coverage that Verizon or AT&T have outside of the cities.
Sidenote: Verizon and AT&T’s pricing is actually pretty competitive to T-Mobile’s now (thanks to T-Mobile’s real uncarrier moves a few years ago). It’s not a given that T-Mobile is always the cheapest any more.
I’m still waiting for reasonable 4g speeds 🤷🏻♂️ I get 2 bars in my town and can’t play a YouTube video 🙄
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