T-Mobile recently added to its mid-band 5G collection by winning an FCC auction for spectrum at 3.45GHz. T-Mobile plans to combine this with its current mid-band holdings.
and five times as large as Verizon. 210 million of them are accessing T-Mobile's Ultra-Capacity 5G. That is twice the number that uses Verizon's Ultra Wideband and"multitudes" more than the number that uses AT&T's 5G+. By the end of this year, T-Mobile plans to bring its 5G Ultra-Capacity 5G to 260 million people, hiking it even more to 300 million people by 2023.
While T-Mobile has the speed and coverage leads, turning on its C-band 5G network allowed Verizon to hike its median 5G download data speed by 50% comparing the week before the January 19th launch and the week after. Following the C-band launch, T-Mobile saw its median 5G download data speed rise from 181.99 Mbps to 187.11 Mbps.
During that same period of time, AT&T's median 5G download data speed rose from 68.43 Mbps to 70.46 Mbps while Verizon's jumped from 76.51 Mbps to 116.29 Mbps.Verizon and AT&T decided to start building out their 5G networks using mmWave spectrum. Yes, this delivers the fastest speeds in the 1Gbps area. However, mmWave signals do not travel far and are easily blocked by structures, trees, and anything in the signal's path.
Verizon and AT&T came to the conclusion that it needed to license some mid-band spectrum to compete with T-Mobile.The FCC decided to use auction mid-band airwaves in the C-band and combined AT&T and Verizon spent a total of over $68 billion to add the much-needed mid-band capabilities to their 5G networks.
But T-Mobile had a trick up its sleeve. It added 5G Carrier Aggregation on January 19th. By combining two or more"chinks" of spectrum, the 5G network's capacity and speed increases.Get the most important news, reviews and deals in mobile tech delivered straight to your inbox
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