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T-Mobile Teases Plans to Launch Nationwide 5G Network in U.S. Within Three Years
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This is good news, but not enough for me to switch. Verizon 4g coverage is great where I live and I could watch 1080p videos without buffering. I still have doubts about TMobile reliability.
I do have faith in them. Every business cares about profits, but with them, I see that they care about customers as well. If it wasn't for them, who knows where the industry would be.
So yeah, I'm still optimistic.
You obviously live in a city. I'm not denying T-Mobile is deserving of being a top carrier and viable alternative to Verizon or AT&T. I'm stating that in rural areas, that's not the case yet.
Wow. I suppose this is a good explanation if you can understand all his abbreviations, acronyms, and highly technical jargon spoken at 346534663 words per minute. Reminds me of a carny trying to get you to play his game on the midway. I'm sure there are a handful of people on here who might be able digest what he's saying. Definitely not a layman' explanation.
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It's like putting a sports car on a one-way two mile track. Wow, 12 gigabits per second! Speed test is awesome! Gee, I wonder how long until my 26gb threshold is reached and I'm de-prioritized down to 3 megabits/sec. Oh wait it just happened! 5G awesomeness FTW...
If you are going to buy a new car and dump the old one, are you going to fix all the problems on it first?
Does this have implications beyond “phones?” How about desktop devices? Replacement for Comcast cable modems at a paltry 70Mbps?
I'd still prefer to have them than any other carrier. If they become within 15% of the price of Verizon or ATT I'll switch, but until then I'm riding the ship. Their service is great if you live in a urban or suburban area!
I think most people realized their plan isn't sustainable when they decided to start paying the taxes for their customers, lol
Yea, but AT&T and 5G is referring to your phone bill.
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Its called working off volume. Instead of getting 1 new customers for a higher price but intead get 3 new customers at lower prices. I would rather go for the later . Volume seems to work for Walmart and other companies.
Im just glad my username will still be good for another 3-4 years
Great to hear tmobile is on top of this and not slowing down.
Great to hear tmobile is on top of this and not slowing down.
They'd have to take the entire market for that to work. That's simply not happening. Working off volume doesn't work with this type of business in the long term. Your example of Walmart doesn't apply in this situation either.
Since Apple is only looking out for the consumer the iPhone 8 wont have gigabyte LTE they will save it for the iPhone 8s essentially forcing customers to upgrade once again. My area is supposed to have gigabyte LTE in Q2 so I would probably have to buy a S8 if I want those speeds.
Same here, and will have to go back to ATT, in spite of the price difference, just can't run my business with TM's spotty coverage and intermittently slow internet connection. You get what you pay for, although TM has great marketing.
I would think so... like how cable companies came along and gave phone companies a wakeup call with both phone and internet services... I expect this continued mobile development to push all wireline carriers. There's no good reason why Comcast and Charter, as the big 2, aren't DOCSIS 3.0 across the board... 3.1 shouldn't be far behind them... and with the advantages of already having huge wireline networks, they should be able to push their offerings up even higher than whatever the new wireless offers us.
This is really a better choice for a network build-out than the "conventional" thinking about 5G. Super high speed services on your phone -- for what? Even 1080p streaming is going to work fine on a steady 25 mbps service rate. Existing data rates on LTE networks are already much higher than this.
Availability (coverage) of the network is where there are still issues. People are still having to move towards windows or so outside to get basic calls to be legible in some areas. A network with superior penetration of buildings and landscaping will help with service coverage for all people. Folks in rural areas that are farther away from towers, and folks in the city where they are deep in office buildings.
Availability (coverage) of the network is where there are still issues. People are still having to move towards windows or so outside to get basic calls to be legible in some areas. A network with superior penetration of buildings and landscaping will help with service coverage for all people. Folks in rural areas that are farther away from towers, and folks in the city where they are deep in office buildings.
Both AT&T and Verizon will deploy 5G-based fixed wireless Internet access (they are running trials in several cities already). This primarily uses high-band spectrum (which provides high capacity, but doesn't penetrate buildings well, so it works best for fixed wireless with roof-top antennas). T-Mobile's low-band spectrum is less suitable for this, and perhaps as a result of that they are focusing on mobile 5G.
You mean will iPhone support 5G before
- the spec exists (NO spec exists today) AND
- the chips haven't been designed (because no spec exists!)
No, I think it is a safe bet that the iPhone will NOT be supporting 5G before these things happen. And, strange to say, big projects like this take TIME. How long do you think it takes from spec to designing the chip to manufacturing it? Three months???
This is a PR move that has nothing to do with "real" 5G. It's a marketing announcement, not a technology announcement.
T-Mobile will simply call whatever their network supports in 2019 5G, just like the carriers called whatever they were providing in 2010 4G, even though they only provided LTE a year later...