October 28, 2020
BELLEVUE, Wash. – Largest 5G network? Check. Blazing fast speeds customers can actually find? Check. T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) today announced it has nearly doubled the number of cities and towns that get supercharged mid-band 5G, adding even more capacity and superfast speeds to America's largest nationwide 5G network. Mid-band 2.5 GHz 5G delivers both broad coverage and fast speeds at the same time -- and it can even go through walls (looking at you, mmWave!). In places it's deployed, average download speeds are already around 300 Mbps — that's 7.5x faster than today's average LTE speeds — with peak download speeds up to 1 Gbps. With today's announcement, T-Mobile mid-band 5G reaches nearly 410 cities and towns across the country. The Un-carrier is rolling out mid-band 5G at a furious pace, with plans to cover 100 million people by the end of the year.
"Mid-band is the only way to deliver super-fast 5G speeds that can reach for miles. And here's the secret AT&T and Verizon don't want you to know: T-Mobile is the only one with big swaths of mid-band dedicated to 5G. T-Mobile has more mid-band spectrum than anyone else," said Neville Ray, President of Technology at T-Mobile. "We're the only ones building a transformational 5G network built on dedicated — not shared — airwaves. And that means only T-Mobile is capable of making the world's best 5G network a reality."
Why Mid-band for 5G?
Mid-band spectrum is the 5G spectrum. It combines massive capacity with far-reaching coverage to bring game-changing performance to more people across the country. Mid-band 2.5 GHz 5G delivers blazing fast speeds that can rival millimeter wave, but unlike mmWave, mid-band can blanket large areas with needed coverage and go through walls, windows and trees. Which means it's a more practical 5G technology.
"When it comes to real-world 5G, the only way to get the kind of performance benefits we've been promised is through the critical mid-band spectrum," noted Bob O'Donnell, President of TECHnalysis Research. "Sure, mmWave can be fast, but it's nearly impossible to find, while low-band 5G is easy to find, but offers smaller improvement over existing LTE. With the 2.5 GHz spectrum being lit up by T-Mobile, however, you get the sweet spot of noticeably improved performance in a respectable coverage area. That's the kind of 5G benefit that consumers are going to notice and appreciate."
T-Mobile has America's largest 5G network and it's only getting better as the Un-carrier deploys more mid-band spectrum from Sprint. T-Mobile's 5G network covers more than 7,500 cities and towns across nearly 1.4 million square miles of the U.S. That's more square miles of 5G coverage than Verizon and AT&T combined - 3.5x more than Verizon 5G and 2x more than AT&T. T-Mobile has pioneered a distinctive 'layer cake' strategy to deliver a transformative, nationwide 5G network for all: dedicated spectrum across all three layers of 5G — low for far and wide coverage indoors and outside, mid for broad coverage and blazing fast speeds and high for super-fast speeds over shorter distances— for the best 5G experience.
T-Mobile is the only one building 5G with dedicated spectrum across all three bands, which is important since 5G phones will use a lot of capacity. T-Mobile has wide open freeways ready to take on massive amounts of 5G traffic while Verizon and AT&T have to steal LTE spectrum from their existing customers to broaden their 5G coverage. Using Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS), Verizon forces 5G and LTE customers to share bandwidth, splitting up the capacity so each technology only gets part of it, taking capacity away from their current smartphone customers and increasing congestion.
Now with mid-band spectrum, T-Mobile is building on its nationwide 5G foundation, increasing capacity and boosting speeds for customers. And it's rolling out at lighting speed across the country. Engineers are lighting up 1,000 sites per month with 2.5 GHz 5G and T-Mobile has plans to cover 100 million people with mid-band 5G by the end of the year.
New mid-band 5G cities and towns:
Arizona
Eloy
Arkansas
North Little Rock
California
Azusa
Baldwin Park
Florence-Graham
Garden Grove
Monrovia
Norwalk
Ontario
Temple City
Walnut Park
West Carson
Connecticut
New Haven
Florida
East Lake-Orient Park
Elfers
Inwood
Longwood
Minneola
New Port Richey
Nokomis
Oak Ridge
Port Richey
Sky Lake
Venice
Zephyrhills
Georgia
Dallas
Grayson
Johns Creek
Newnan
Riverdale
Smyrna
Illinois
Arlington Heights
Aurora
Batavia
Bloomington
Bridgeview
Champaign
Channahon
Cicero
Dolton
Elgin
Elk Grove Village
Granite City
Lansing
Lemont
Maywood
Mount Prospect
Naperville
Niles
Norridge
Oak Lawn
Pekin
Richton Park
Schaumburg
South Chicago Heights
Urbana
Waukegan
Indiana
Evansville
Greenwood
Hammond
Indianapolis city (balance)
Lawrence
Kansas
Overland Park
Pittsburg
Wichita
Maryland
Crofton
Largo
Maryland City
Middle River
Severn
Urbana
Michigan
Center Line
Clinton
Eastpointe
Inkster
Warren
Minnesota
Columbia Heights
Elk River
Hilltop
Missouri
Carthage
Charlack
Clayton
Columbia
Foristell
Kirkwood
Lake Mykee Town
New Bloomfield
Raytown
St. Louis
University City
Nevada
Enterprise
New Jersey
Brooklawn
Dover
East Newark
East Orange
Elizabeth
Fair Lawn
Glen Rock
Guttenberg
Hoboken
Interlaken
Kearny
Linden
Morristown
Newark
Pine Hill
Pine Valley
Rutherford
Secaucus
Somerville
Union City
Wanamassa
West New York
Wharton
New York
Babylon
Central Islip
Green Island
Troy
West Babylon
North Carolina
Apex
Asheville
Charlotte
Concord
Hendersonville
Valley Hill
Vanceboro
Youngsville
Ohio
Avalon
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
Columbus
Hamilton
Hanover
Lancaster
London
McKees Rocks
Monroe
Rossmoyne
Oklahoma
Choctaw
Del City
Smith Village
Pennsylvania
Aldan
Aliquippa
Allentown
Arnold
Beaver
Bellmawr
Bethlehem
Blawnox
Brackenridge
Bridgewater
Bryn Mawr
Chester
Folsom
Munhall
New Kensington
Ridley Park
Rutledge
Tarentum
Upland
Verona
Whitaker
Youngstown
Rhode Island
Woonsocket
South Carolina
Goose Creek
Sangaree
Tennessee
Berry Hill
Franklin
Hendersonville
Knoxville
Maryville
Texas
Bacliff
Cloverleaf
Fifth Street
Jacinto City
La Porte
Shenandoah
South Houston
Stafford
Virginia
Brambleton
Broadlands
Falls Church
Hampton
Herndon
Loudoun Valley Estates
Manassas
Manassas Park
Merrifield
Richmond
Springfield
Yorkshire
Washington
Burien
Monroe
Wisconsin
Beloit
Milwaukee
Neenah
South Milwaukee
West Allis
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