T-Mobile activates mid-band 5G in nearly 200 new cities and towns

[@TheRealDanny]

https://www.tmonews.com/2020/10/t-mo...-cities-towns/

This is on top of the 200+ cities/towns activated 2 weeks ago.

Looking ahead, T-Mo says that it’s activating mid-band 5G on 1,000 sites per month. It plans to cover 100 million people with 2.5GHz 5G by the end of 2020, which would be a significant increase from the 25 million that are covered today.

Is your town covered?

New cities/towns include:

Arizona:
Eloy

Arkansas:
North Little Rock

California:
Azusa
Baldwin Park
Florence-Graham
Garden Grove
Monrovia
Norwalk
Ontario
Temple City
Walnut Park
West Carson

Connecticut:
New Haven

Florida:
East Lake-Orient Park
Elfers
Inwood
Longwood
Minneola
New Port Richey
Nokomis
Oak Ridge
Port Richey
Sky Lake
Venice
Zephyrhills

Georgia:
Dallas
Grayson
Johns Creek
Newnan
Riverdale
Smyrna

Illinois:
Arlington Heights
Aurora
Batavia
Bloomington
Bridgeview
Champaign
Channahon
Cicero
Dolton
Elgin
Elk Grove Village
Granite City
Lansing
Lemont
Maywood
Mount Prospect
Naperville
Niles
Norridge
Oak Lawn
Pekin
Richton Park
Schaumburg
South Chicago Heights
Urbana
Waukegan

Indiana:
Evansville
Greenwood
Hammond
Indianapolis city (balance)
Lawrence

Kansas:
Overland Park
Pittsburg
Wichita

Maryland:
Crofton
Largo
Maryland City
Middle River
Severn
Urbana

Michigan:
Center Line
Clinton
Eastpointe
Inkster
Warren

Minnesota:
Columbia Heights
Elk River
Hilltop

Missouri:
Carthage
Charlack
Clayton
Columbia
Foristell
Kirkwood
Lake Mykee Town
New Bloomfield
Raytown
St. Louis
University City

Nevada:
Enterprise

New Jersey:
Brooklawn
Dover
East Newark
East Orange
Elizabeth
Fair Lawn
Glen Rock
Guttenberg
Hoboken
Interlaken
Kearny
Linden
Morristown
Newark
Pine Hill
Pine Valley
Rutherford
Secaucus
Somerville
Union City
Wanamassa
West New York
Wharton

New York:
Babylon
Central Islip
Green Island
Troy
West Babylon

North Carolina:
Apex
Asheville
Charlotte
Concord
Hendersonville
Valley Hill
Vanceboro
Youngsville

Ohio:
Avalon
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
Columbus
Hamilton
Hanover
Lancaster
London
McKees Rocks
Monroe
Rossmoyne

Oklahoma:
Choctaw
Del City
Smith Village

Pennsylvania:
Aldan
Aliquippa
Allentown
Arnold
Beaver
Bellmawr
Bethlehem
Blawnox
Brackenridge
Bridgewater
Bryn Mawr
Chester
Folsom
Munhall
New Kensington
Ridley Park
Rutledge
Tarentum
Upland
Verona
Whitaker
Youngstown

Rhode Island:
Woonsocket

South Carolina:
Goose Creek
Sangaree

Tennessee:
Berry Hill
Franklin
Hendersonville
Knoxville
Maryville

Texas:
Bacliff
Cloverleaf
Fifth Street
Jacinto City
La Porte
Shenandoah
South Houston
Stafford

Virginia:
Brambleton
Broadlands
Falls Church
Hampton
Herndon
Loudoun Valley Estates
Manassas
Manassas Park
Merrifield
Richmond
Springfield
Yorkshire

Washington:
Burien
Monroe

Wisconsin:
Beloit
Milwaukee
Neenah
South Milwaukee
West Allis





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[navyson]

Makes sense now. I was in Largo, Maryland a few times earlier this week and I did several speed tests(on my One Plus 8 5G) while there and they all came back over 200+ megabit down. I was wondering if they had changed something and know I know why.

Great download speedtests. Looks great on the phone. However, why don't I feel all that excited though? Hmmmmmm

[Jack Hagar]

Nope. Why does Illinois get all the love? 45+ cities last update over 2 dozen this time. Meanwhile TN hardly get ****

[navyson]

Nope. Why does Illinois get all the love? 45+ cities last update over 2 dozen this time. Meanwhile TN hardly get ****

No love for NYC also. Nothing on the list.

[formercanuck]

Nope.. no n41 buildouts here, but I don't expect it to for a while. Coverage and performance is good here in general, so I don't expect it to be highest of priority.

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[DRNewcomb]

No love for NYC also. Nothing on the list.

This list is just cities added in the last two weeks. NYC was one of the first places where T-Mobile deployed band 41. Now, Sprint's network in NYC is highly dependent on band 41, so there might not be hundreds of MHz to spare, until that network is decommissioned/assimilated.

[navyson]

When T-mobile says they have upgraded a particular town(like Largo, Maryland in the list above), do they normally upgrade all of the cell sites in that area before they announce it or is there a possibility that a few sites within that town are still not upgraded at the time of the announcement?

[@TheRealDanny]

Nope.. no n41 buildouts here, but I don't expect it to for a while. Coverage and performance is good here in general, so I don't expect it to be highest of priority.

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Agreed.

And remember the CPUC tried to force T-Mobile to provide an average of 300 Mbps to 93% of California by 2024 but Magenta clapped back.

https://www.fiercewireless.com/opera...g-requirements






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[formercanuck]

When T-mobile says they have upgraded a particular town(like Largo, Maryland in the list above), do they normally upgrade all of the cell sites in that area before they announce it or is there a possibility that a few sites within that town are still not upgraded at the time of the announcement?

Depending on the size of the community. The first 2 that I saw in MI, were towns of < 5,000 people, that had 1 cell tower... so its easy to state that it was completed.
When T-Mobile lists communities that have many cell sites.... I suspect that 'some' will be updated to n41. Eg. In San Fernando, CA, its a relatively small city within Los Angeles, and has ~10 cell sites. At least 2 show B41 on cell mapper. It is possible that they've updated all, but not likely.
Similarly, when claims of 'Los Angeles' having n41, there's probably +500 cell sites just in the city alone. It'll be a while. Areas with dense population will need it first, IMHO.

[formercanuck]

Agreed.

And remember the CPUC tried to force T-Mobile to provide an average of 300 Mbps to 93% of California by 2024 but Magenta clapped back.

https://www.fiercewireless.com/opera...g-requirements
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Given the amount of cell sites in California... having an 'average' of 300Mbps by 2024 is a lot of work. Not impossible, but when carriers have to fight local/county and state governments for upgrading much of this gear... it can take a while. I don't blame them for not wanting to enter into an agreement, unless they had an ace up their sleeve. Local/state gov't agencies could stall them just to have them fork over a lot of money.

[brad15]

Nope. Why does Illinois get all the love? 45+ cities last update over 2 dozen this time. Meanwhile TN hardly get ****

Most of the IL "cities" listed in both releases were just suburbs of Chicago or the immediate counties, and some are just simply what we consider to just be neighborhoods inside Chicago.

Really, they're just moving fast to integrate here in Chicago and it sounds better than just saying "Chicago Metro"

[ecs0013]

Most of the IL "cities" listed in both releases were just suburbs of Chicago or the immediate counties, and some are just simply what we consider to just be neighborhoods inside Chicago.

Really, they're just moving fast to integrate here in Chicago and it sounds better than just saying "Chicago Metro"

From what I've seen/heard over the years, Chicago was always a really good Sprint market, so I suspect they'd want to keep those customers and make the transition as smooth as possible. That's not to say other areas don't matter, but it seemed that in many parts of Chicago, Sprint wasn't seen as the running-out-of-money carrier with spotty service that usually gets painted elsewhere.

[brad15]

From what I've seen/heard over the years, Chicago was always a really good Sprint market, so I suspect they'd want to keep those customers and make the transition as smooth as possible. That's not to say other areas don't matter, but it seemed that in many parts of Chicago, Sprint wasn't seen as the running-out-of-money carrier with spotty service that usually gets painted elsewhere.

Sprint was actually solid in IL, IN, and OH. I’m from Columbus and quite a few people had Sprint. It had some hiccups during Network Vision, but overall the service was solid, even rurally

[ecs0013]

Sprint was actually solid in IL, IN, and OH. I’m from Columbus and quite a few people had Sprint. It had some hiccups during Network Vision, but overall the service was solid, even rurally

Yep, I grew up in NW Indiana and there were quite a few people in that area with Sprint that really liked it. Indianapolis also seemed like a good Sprint market—when I was looking at various carriers at work, I had bought into the "Sprint is garbage" talk, but gave them a try—I was pleasantly surprised with the speeds I got on test devices when they'd hit LTE Band 41.