T-Mobile 5G phones

For example, T-Mobile owns the licenses to most of band 71 (600 MHz). This low-band sub-6 , which refers to frequencies below 6 GHz, performs well over long distances and in rural areas. Higher frequencies, including 5G mmWave band, are designed for densely populated urban areas.

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.

Last year, T-Mobile launched high-band in Atlanta, Cleveland, Dallas, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and New York, and it plans to add other cities to this list. Today, download speeds for carriers’ high-band 5G can sometimes clock in around 450 Mbps , with peak speeds of nearly 1 Gbps, and upload speeds near 50 Mbps.

No 5G signal goes farther or is more reliable. T-Mobile is laying a solid, broad foundation for its 5G network by blanketing the country with 600 MHz low-band spectrum. Now that the merger with Sprint is complete, T-Mobile is adding critical depth to the network with 2.5 GHz mid-band spectrum .