US wireless operator T-Mobile announced on Monday that its Ultra Capacity 5G network has covered 200 million people. It is reported that the company originally planned to achieve this goal by the end of 2021. The Ultra Capacity service is built on the mid-frequency 2.5GHz spectrum and claims to be able to bring a much faster connection experience than 4G LTE, even faster than 5G Wi-Fi.
T-Mobile added that its Extended Range 5G network relies on a low-frequency spectrum to provide a more powerful but relatively slow connection option than Ultra Capacity 5G networks, which now cover 1.7 million square miles. Of 308 million people. However, TheVerge pointed out that the number of T-Mobile only represents the theoretical coverage value. After all, referring to the company’s public report, as of the end of 2020, its number of users has just exceeded 100 million points.
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Even so, recent studies such as OpenSignal have shown that T-Mobile provides the fastest and most extensive 5G mobile network in the United States, leaving a deep impression on users in urban centers and metropolitan areas. At the same time, competitors Verizon and AT&T are also working hard to roll out 5G networks across the United States, but progress has been relatively slow. Both companies have chosen millimeter wave as the backbone network for their fast 5G services. Compared with solutions below 6GHz, mmWave consumes more resources.
Earlier this month, the two operators were also forced to agree to postpone the deployment of mid-band (C-band spectrum) resources when the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was concerned that these frequency bands might interfere with aircraft communications.