T-Mobile Goes All-In on 5G Phones, Teases First 5G Cities

BARCELONA—New York, LA, Dallas, and Las Vegas will be among the offset thirty cities T-Mobile outfits with 5G this yr, the latest fleck of 5G i-upmanship we've seen here at Mobile Earth Congress.

"By 2022 we will build a fully nationwide 5G coverage layer," T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray said at the carrier's press conference today. "I challenge my competition today: match what I'thou saying, tell me that you're going to deliver 5G in a comprehensive national mode in these timeframes."

T-Mobile's nationwide 5G coverage will rely on its 600MHz spectrum, which won't deliver the spectacular speeds that people associate with other carriers' 5G promises, but will deed as a base layer that's somewhat faster than equivalent 4G. It will exist supplemented by fast just short-range "millimeter wave" in big cities, which is the sort of 5G AT&T and Verizon are building out.

"Millimeter wave is going to work great in these dumbo urban environments, only across broad geographies, information technology doesn't compute. Information technology'south completely uneconomic across a geographic mass similar the The states," Ray said.

Equally for speeds, "Are we going to see average speeds start to move upwardly past tens of megabits per second? For certain," he said. "We would love to run into average speeds triple, or move to 100Mbps, but that's a journey that's going to take fourth dimension in the industry."

There was a fleck of reality distortion in T-Mobile's press release, just Ray was articulate and straight up in person. While T-Mobile is "building" 5G in 30 cities this yr, it won't actually launch information technology until 2022. That's because unlike Verizon, which is doing fixed wireless to homes, and AT&T, which is relying on a "puck" hotspot, T-Mobile will wait for 5G smartphones.

"We want to focus our free energy and work on smartphones," Ray said. "I don't desire to win the 2022 race; I call back it's a meaningless race. What matters is when we're going to take consumer products that are broadly bachelor and broadly usable, and that's next year."

Ray also called the fixed-wireless and wireless-hotspot markets that Verizon and AT&T are initially pursuing, "not very exciting."

Hotspots are "a very small-scale volume, niche product today," he said. "I'd rather commit our endeavour to something way more meaningful and more than expansive for the consumer."

Ray didn't name any devices or vendors, but the timing would be right for a Samsung Galaxy S10. "This fourth dimension next yr, we'll exist talking well-nigh the beginning 5G smartphones coming into the wireless space on the bands that we use, both millimeter moving ridge and 600MHz," Ray said.

Source: https://sea.pcmag.com/news/19812/t-mobile-goes-all-in-on-5g-phones-teases-first-5g-cities

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