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T-Mo’s Neville Ray says Verizon’s mmWave-first 5G strategy ‘will come back to haunt them’

November 19, 2020

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T-Mobile US Vice President of Technology Neville Ray is confident in the carrier’s 5G “coverage leadership.” Speaking recently at the virtual BCG/New Street Research 5G Conference, Ray touted the reach of T-Mo’s low-band 600 MHz 5G network to 270 million PoPs over 1.4 million square miles, and noted the rapid pace of deployment of 2.5 GHz 5G–37 million PoPs this week, 100 million by year-end and 200 million by the end of 2021.

And Ray didn’t mince words in assessing T-Mobile’s positioned as compared to AT&T and Verizon. AT&T and Verizon have used dynamic spectrum sharing to claim “nationwide” 5G coverage while the former has some dedicated low-band 5G market and latter is working toward of goal of millimeter wave 5G in 60 markets by the end of the year.

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