Pretty much ignorant BS from a T-Mobile hater like yourself.
Once T-Mobile gets their native coverage footprint to 300 million covered they will be on par with Verizon and AT&T or nearly on par with them atleast.
T-Mobile currently covers 284 million with 2G EDGE and 260 million people with 4GLTE. They bought 700mhz spectrum from Verizon a few months ago and have already deployed recently started deploying that spectrum in a few cities and will aggressively roll out more of their 700mz spectrum to more areas. This 700mhz spectrum will expand T-Mobile's coverage footprint beyond their current coverage of 284 million people to 300 million people. They plan to have their native foot print increased to 300 million by the end of 2015. John Legere announced in March 2014 that they were upgrading all their 2G edge towers to 4G LTE. They had 234 million covered with LTE in July 2014 and then in OCTober they had 250 million covered and today John LEgere announced they have 260 million covered with 4G LTE , 2 weeks ahead of schedule. They plan to have 284 million covered with 4g LTE by mid 2015 and 300 million by the end of 2015.
T- Mobile has spent billions of dollars upgrading their entire network to 4G LTE and will expand their native coverage footprint from 284 million covered to 300 million native footprint coverage by the end of next year for the first time in the company's history.
http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/issues...illion-americans-months-ahead-of-schedule.htm
More people covered is more land mass covered. AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint all use people covered aka POPs when talking about their networks and sometimes use percentage of Americans covered to talk about their networks. So why should T-Mobile not be able to do the same in their advertising when talking about their network coverage.
Yes, 300 million POPs covered with LTE would mean T-Mobile is covering way more land mass than they currently cover. T-Mobile currently covers 260 million with LTE and about 284 million with 2G EDGE.
If you got to AT&T's website they say the following and I quote "Overall, AT&T covers over 320 million people with its voice and data service, with over 300 million people covered by our 4G LTE network." http://www.att.com/network/en/index....id=o-vrx8GSTU6
John Legere did give a progress report on the Edge to LTE upgrades. They had 250 million covered with LTE at the end of OCT now they have as of today 260 million covered with LTE. A 10 million POPs increase of LTE coverage in just the past 2 months alone.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/...art/2014-12-16
"Legere also disclosed that T-Mobile now covers 260 million POPs with LTE, beating its year-end coverage goal by around two weeks. He noted that T-Mobile has increased its LTE coverage by 10 million POPs in the past 60 days."
I interpret AT&T statement to mean that 320 million are covered on 2G/3G and that 300 million our covered with 4G LTE.
On Verizon site they just say they cover 97% of Americans. I am sure they cover about 320- 330 million with their native CDMA/3G network and over 306 million with their LTE network
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/...lte/2014-09-04
This article from September 4, 2014 by fiercewireless states
Atat LTE covering 300 million people
Verizon LTE covering 306 million people
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