It’s almost time for the Los Angeles Rams to take on the Cincinnati Bengals in this year’s Super Bowl and T-Mobile is ready to support the thousands of fans. Over the past 18 months T-Mobile engineers have been working hard to add more permanent 5G coverage and capacity to the Los Angeles area. This is […]
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FAA Allows AT&T, Verizon to Turn on More 5G Towers
Announced Friday, The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it has agreed that Verizon Wireless and AT&T can safely turn on additional towers for their C-Band 5G deployment. “Through continued technical collaboration, the FAA, Verizon, and AT&T have agreed on steps that will enable more aircraft to safely use key airports while also enabling more […]
Testing Verizon C-Band in New York City
Verizon’s new 5G network is live and PCMag just tested it out in New York City. In summary, C-Band made their connections about 50% faster, once they were able to find the signal. They also noted less congestion on the network, which is likely due to it still being so new. Starting this past Wednesday, […]
Verizon’s new 5G launches Jan. 19th – Will your phone support it?
Verizon’s 5G network is growing this month. Promises of faster speeds and wider coverage for phones, tablets and other devices on its service have been announced. The 5G upgrade is scheduled for Jan. 19. In efforts to catch up with T-Mobile in coverage, the carrier is going to be reaching 100 million people this month. […]
Verizon Expands Ultra Wideband 5G Network Despite FAA Delays
While Verizon is dealing with more delays from the FAA on 5G’s C-Band spectrum rollout, they are continuing to push through what service they can. On Tuesday, they unveiled its updated 5G plan, including tweaked plans for wireless and home internet users. This month, more than 100 million people in 1,700-plus cities around the nation […]
Verizon hits 5G site target, turns focus to C-band deployment
Verizon says it’s exceeded its 2021 target for building out its 5G Ultra Wideband cells. Now, amongst FAA concerns over C-Band, Verizon is turning its investment attention to rapidly expanding its C-band airwaves deployment. Along the way, it’s launching 5G Business Internet service today in: Athens, GA Knoxville, TN Tacoma, WA The company passed its […]
Verizon’s CFO Discusses Progress with C-Band & Fixed Wireless
At the beginning of November, we reported about the stop AT&T and Verizon had to put on rolling out their respective 5G C-band services due to FAA regulations. As the FAA continues to work with the FCC on this, Verizon’s CFO Matt Ellis is confident that the delay won’t linger more than 30 days. Ellis, […]
T-Mobile Reaches Goal of 5G Coverage for 200M Americans
T-Mobile has reached one of its goals for the end of this year – to provide its “Ultra Capacity” 5G network to more than 200 million Americans. This is the network they’ve built out on the midband 2.5GHz spectrum – something repurposed from the Sprint network. In comparison to 4G LTE, the bandwidth speeds are […]
5G Stats from RootMetrics Favors T-Mobile
As T-Mobile’s lead in the 5G race soars – both in speeds and reliability – AT&T and Verizon’s positions are too close to call at this time. This is according to newly released data from RootMetrics (refer to the November Scorecard). Tests were completed in about 60 cities, out of a total 125 they will […]
To Be, or Not to Be 5G…
That is the question indeed, on many of our minds! Much like the confusion around AT&T and T-Mobile’s 4G HSPA+ – an update to 3G, but not quite comparable to LTE performance – carriers are leading customers to believe they’ll be getting all that 5G service has been promising – faster speeds and lower latency. […]
