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T-Mobile's LTE Network to Eventually Cover 225M People

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Oct 11, 2013, 2:44 PM   by Eric M. Zeman

T-Mobile will continue to increase the footprint of its LTE 4G network, but it won't reach the coverage offered by competing networks from AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon Wireless. According to the Wall Street Journal, T-Mobile's LTE footprint will eventually cover 225 million POPs around the country. T-Mobile's EDGE 2G network reaches "just under 300 million," according to T-Mobile executives. The company did not explain why it won't push its LTE 4G network to its entire 2G footprint, but the issue is likely T-Mobile's spectrum holdings. It may not have the spectrum needed to cover its entire EDGE network with LTE 4G. Both AT&T and Verizon Wireless expect to cover more than 300 million people with their LTE 4G networks once fully complete, and Sprint expects to cover 275 million. Earlier this week, T-Mobile said its LTE network is available to 202 million people around the country. T-Mobile didn't say when it expects to finish its LTE build-out, but it did say that it will increase capacity across its LTE network beginning next year.

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Airb330

Oct 11, 2013, 3:50 PM

Might as well shut down the rest of the network

Shut down the EDGE and GPRS areas. Save some money. It really seems as if T-Mobile has no desire to compete outside of the top 20 cities and to only target those who never leave a major metro area.

Why bother covering those 75 million with GPRS and EDGE? Maybe it is cheaper than paying roaming fees. Too many areas in the northeast haven't been touched since Omnipoint.
I still trying to make my mind between T-mobile or AT&T
I know ATT have better coverage, but the prices at Tmobile are sweet,
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