T-Mobile US has been building out its 2.5 GHz in fast and furious fashion, and it is reaping the benefits in 5G coverage and performance. Mike Sievert, president and CEO of the company, has said that the company has a “years-long” advantage over AT&T and Verizon in the midband. “It’s pretty stark,” he said on the company’s most recent quarterly call.
Aurora Insight CEO Jennifer Alvarez, drawing on her company’s data from global measurement of spectrum use, says that Aurora has seen a two-pronged strategy from T-Mobile US: First, the deployment of its 5G coverage layer with 600 MHz spectrum, with which it staked a “nationwide coverage” claim and extended into small, rural or remote markets around the country.
