5G high-band spectrum delivers super-fast speeds over short distances. The third bucket of spectrum where wireless operators are deploying 5G is in the millimeter wave spectrum. This is very high on the spectrum chart in the 24 GHz band and higher .
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T-Mobile, for example, uses 600 MHz, 2.5 GHz and 39 GHz for 5G , and when the second tranche of C-band becomes available in 2023, it will have an average 40 MHz of C-band at its disposal. And it just picked up 3.45 GHz spectrum in the FCC’s most recent auction for 5G services, where it spent nearly $3 billion.
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