This. I live in the middle of a city of 90,000 and during peak times I’m lucky to get 1-2Mbps with T-Mobile at my house. If not for home broadband and their very cheap 55+ plan it’s likely I wouldn’t stick with them.
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T-Mobile Launches 600MHz 5G Network Across United States
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This. I live in the middle of a city of 90,000 and during peak times I’m lucky to get 1-2Mbps with T-Mobile at my house. If not for home broadband and their very cheap 55+ plan it’s likely I wouldn’t stick with them.
I've never heard of Sensorly so I tried to go to their site and they have closed down? How did you get those maps? I guess you have an old app?
The maps you posted looked way more detailed than the standard maps from the carriers which is why I was curious to see what my area looked like.
Thats kind of an incorrect statement If you actually read int he issue over the last few years you would know that the reason for lack of 5G is they were sick and tired (as most manufacturers are) of Qualcomm's anti-competitive practices and licensing requirements to use their chips, so Apple relied on Intel to build out the 5G chips and it failed, so they had to back track and form licensing arrangements with Qualcomm that won't be ready in Apple phones until 2020.
Specifically, two 5G phones T-Mobile is selling today officially support two 5G bands, 600 MHz (n71) and Sprint's 2.5 GHz (n41). 28 GHz mmWave band (n257/n260/n261) is conspicuously absent and carrier aggregation seems to be limited to single 5G band and 4G LTE bands only.
I guess calling Saul is out of the question then.May be because the signal is “Breaking Bad”
As usual, lots of posting by self-designated experts here that are completely wrong.
People - standards exist and are ratified so manufacturers can build handsets and infrastructure that works together.
Yes, there can be enhancements and addenda to the standard, but the standard itself will not, and cannot change.
People - standards exist and are ratified so manufacturers can build handsets and infrastructure that works together.
Yes, there can be enhancements and addenda to the standard, but the standard itself will not, and cannot change.
This is the 4K of TV. It’s great if it all works, but hardly ever works and almost no content (at least not the majority of what is watched).
Sports are the most watched programming in US and zero of it is in 4K.
Sports are the most watched programming in US and zero of it is in 4K.
5G isn't ready for 5G.
And look for AT&T to launch its “6Ge” service by the end of the week... /s
I wish I could select 5G only on the 600-700MHz band. I would be happy with it. Otherwise, if I switch to 5G my smartphone will be looking for miliwave towers constantly, heating up, producing lots of radiation (it has to strengthen the signal), and draining my battery. No thanks.
If I can't select only the 600-700MHz band, I will switch off 5G and keep using 4G on future iPhones.
If I can't select only the 600-700MHz band, I will switch off 5G and keep using 4G on future iPhones.
cannot agree more
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.... with 10 dollars price increase ?!
We simply live in era of “double standards”.
probably they change it again and again.
The first 4G LTE smartphones that came out in 2011 continue to work on every network today.
The 5G standard has been agreed upon since 2017.
Maybe you have more energy than I do, but I grew tired of correcting the vast amounts of BS on here years ago. Keep up the good fight.
I do think people are confusing BANDS with STANDARDS.
Probably the same speed as AT&T's "5Ge". mmWave is where you'll see true differences.
Purchasing a 5G phone in 2020 is unlikely to be worth it. However, it will slowly increase LTE speeds as people begin to switch over to 5G for a couple of years.
Mid to late next year carriers can implement dynamic spectrum sharing that will allow them to share spectrum between 5G and 4G (something that wasn't possible moving from 3G to 4G).
Tmobile intends to use Sprint's band 41 for their 5G plus whatever mmwave they can aggregate with it (they already own some), band 71 is just a coverage band and using 10mhz (right now since DSS isn't yet available, Tmobile has 10mhz of band 71 dedicated to 5G) of it on 5G equipment isn't going to make much of a difference in speeds, maybe 15% greater. I wouldn't buy a new phone unless I was sure it was going to take advantage of all sub 6 bands and spectrum sharing down the road.
Tmobile intends to use Sprint's band 41 for their 5G plus whatever mmwave they can aggregate with it (they already own some), band 71 is just a coverage band and using 10mhz (right now since DSS isn't yet available, Tmobile has 10mhz of band 71 dedicated to 5G) of it on 5G equipment isn't going to make much of a difference in speeds, maybe 15% greater. I wouldn't buy a new phone unless I was sure it was going to take advantage of all sub 6 bands and spectrum sharing down the road.
All 2018 and newer iPhones support T-Mobile’s band 71 @ 600Mhz
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/09/12/2018-iphones-tmobile-600mhz-spectrum/
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/09/12/2018-iphones-tmobile-600mhz-spectrum/
I don't need this. My AT&T iPhone 11 Pro Max shows "AT&T 5GE", so I'm happy!
Isn't that the same as LTE?
Some of this BS has to do with people trying (for no apparent reason) to defend the fact that Apple does not offer 5G smartphones yet.