There’s a whole new kind of 5G being launched and talked about in the US in 2022: C Band. It’s much faster than existing “nationwide” 5G, yet has better coverage than hard-to-find mmWave 5G . For AT&T and Verizon, it represents a huge leap forward in the 5G race.
Read moreHow fast is Verizon C-band?
Since the high-profile C-band launch last week, Verizon’s C-band boosted its 5G speeds to a peak of 735 Mbps , according to tests by PCMag, which is “far beyond” what they previously saw with the company’s “nationwide” 5G network.
Read moreHow fast is Verizon 5G C-band?
Based on testing done by PCMag, Verizon’s C-Band delivers north of 500Mbps on average , but Redditors have shared speeds exceeding the 800Mbps mark on the carrier’s 5G Ultra Wideband network.
Read moreDoes C-band go through walls?
AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon all bought mmWave holdings, but Verizon was the most aggressive in deploying it. mmWave offers truly dizzying speeds and huge capacity, but at the cost of propagation: it doesn’t go far and can’t pass through walls , people, tree branches, or sometimes even leaves.22 Ara 2021
Read moreDoes T-Mobile use C-band spectrum?
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.
Read moreHow much mid-band spectrum does T-Mobile have?
T-Mobile has 292 MHz of mid-band spectrum. This is one of our big advantages over our competitors. Here’s why. For some time, we’ve been using a “layer cake” analogy to describe the network approach we pioneered.
Read moreIs T-Mobile and spectrum together?
After the recent merger with Sprint, T-Mobile now has more variety of spectrum across all three bands than any other national carrier , with significant holdings in the low- and mid-bands needed to deliver 5G far and wide.
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