![]() ![]() T-Mobile’s Chief of Technology Neville Ray, has recently announced a new program that will add new sites to their grid in an effort to address the problem they have. Their mid-band spectrum has a useful radius of coverage of 2-3 miles, which leaves large gaps between sites where that signal cannot reach, and T-Mobile currently has no way to fill in those gaps withough constructing tens of thousands of new sites.ĪT&T and Verizon on the other hand, have a site spacing of 6-7 miles across the country, so if they deploy C-Band to every single site, that signal from two adjacent sites can easily reach all of the land area between them. T-Mobile’s sites are generally placed in a 20-mile spacing grid. The fact that AT&T and Verizon have a far greater site density than T-Mobile will allow those two carriers to pretty much blanket the country with contiguous mid-band service. T-Mobile won’t be able to deploy its C-band spectrum until later.Ĭ-Band deployment is a HUGE threat to T-Mobile’s 5G crown. ![]() And both AT&T and Verizon won spectrum in markets where the satellite operators who have traditionally used the spectrum and who shared in the auction proceeds, agreed to early clearing. “If the trend in increased speed continues, Verizon… could challenge T-Mobile for fastest download speed in our next Speedtest Global Index Market Analysis.”ĪT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon all won spectrum in the C-band auction, but Verizon’s winnings were the largest and T-Mobile’s the smallest of the three. But according to Ookla, that could change. T-Mobile has been the leader in recent Ookla 5G speed tests thanks to the 2.5 GHz mid-band spectrum it gained when it merged with Sprint. ![]() “This massive improvement in speed shows the power of Verizon’s widespread deployment of C-band spectrum and C-band’s ability to deliver fast speeds,” an Ookla blog post says. Verizon’s average speeds increased 50% as a result of its C-band rollout, according to Ookla, while AT&T and T-Mobile saw only slight increases. ![]()
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