Still without the mid-band spectrum it won in 2022, T-Mobile makes a shocking offer to the FCC،
However, with a 90-day review period, TMobile He still has a little over a month before he goes on air. By Cable Cutter Newswith the aim of obtaining the spectrum before the end of the 90 day period, TMobile has offered to divest its spectrum assets to Hawaii via a transaction. Edward Smith, senior vice president of policy and government affairs for TMobilesent a letter to the FCC informing the regulatory agency that the wireless provider would sell or trade the spectrum it owns in Hawaii “in order to expedite the issuance of 2.5 GHz licenses.”
By all accounts, TMobile should have already been in possession of the licenses allowing it to use the 2.5 GHz spectrum won at auction. And TMobile said spectrum fills some coverage gaps in the United States, particularly in rural areas of the country. Putting the airwaves online will allow TMobile to expand its 5G coverage and make its 5G service, already the fastest in the country, even faster. This will also allow TMobile to bring 5G home internet service to more places.
T-Mobile's 5G layer cake
The use of the 2.5 GHz mid-band spectrum is an important part of TMobile5G leadership in the United States The operator recovered a large part of its holdings in the 2.5 GHz band after acquiring Sprint; Verizon and AT&T then acquired C-band spectrum (also mid-band airwaves) via auction. Mid-band spectrum has proven important for 5G because signals travel longer distances than mmWave spectrum, but not as far as low-band.
Additionally, mid-band may not offer data speeds as fast as millimeter wave, but it is faster than low-band. So, to be clear, mid-band signals carry far enough and are fast enough to be the waves that US carriers need to build around in order to make fast 5G signals available to the vast majority of their customers. Low band is too slow and mmWave doesn't have the range. This is why mid-band waves are known as the “Goldilocks” spectrum.
