T-Mobile is planning to use this spectrum to improve its current 4G LTE network, and will also use it to build its 5G network - which T-Mobile says will be the first nationwide 5G network in the US.
In a keynote address at 5G North America, Karri Kuoppamaki, T-Mobile's VP of technology development and strategy, discussed the operator's plans to utilize its newly won 600 MHz spectrum for 5G deployments. "This timeline-well ahead of expectations-sets the stage for commercial operations later this year".
Have you recently switched to T-Mobile? Ray indicated the pace of T-Mobiles 600 MHz deployments would be "record-breaking".
Back in April, T-Mobile purchased a large chunk of the 600MHz spectrum for $7.99 billion.
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The company has already signaled it would like to start lighting up some of that new mobile wireless broadband spectrum as early as the end of this year, with testing beginning this summer. The carrier said, with its usual braggadocio, that it now "officially possesses a staggering average of 31 MHz of 600 MHz spectrum licenses across the nation, more than quadrupling its low-band holdings".
T-Mobile declined to comment on where testing would begin, how many sites would be involved in the testing, and what exactly those tests would include. That's when new 600 MHz smartphones from leading smartphone manufacturers are anticipated to arrive. New handset reveals from Samsung and other major vendors like Apple traditionally occur in the fall.
And that should be a boon for the tower sector, according to Jennifer Fritzsche of Wells Fargo Securities. "We see this announcement as further evidence it will not retract in spending-even in the face of a merger", she concluded. The lower the band, the more coverage it offers. "Put another way, this is spectrum the combined entity would want (need?) to have".
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