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T-Mobile Starts Deploying LTE On Its 700MHz Spectrum

Dec 16, 2014, 10:55 AM by Eric M. Zeman
updated Dec 16, 2014, 11:52 AM

Updated: added reference to GSM/EDGE transition to LTE; added detail regarding 700MHz coverage.

T-Mobile today offered some details about its LTE network. To start, it has expanded its LTE service footprint to cover 260 million POPs — an increase of 10 million POPs over the last two months. T-Mobile also said it has begun deploying LTE on its 700MHz spectrum holdings. T-Mobile customers in several markets, including Cleveland, Colorado Springs, Minneapolis, and Washington, D.C., can access LTE on 700MHz with properly equipped devices. The 700MHz coverage joins T-Mobile's AWS coverage, and provides better in-building coverage and capacity. T-Mobile says its 700MHz spectrum covers 190 million POPs around the country. T-Mobile didn't say how long it will take to light up LTE covering those 190 million POPs. Further, T-Mobile CEO John Legere said it will replace all its GSM/EDGE coverage with LTE across its AWS and PCS spectrum where it remains. T-Mobile aims to complete replacing GSM/EDGE with LTE by next year.

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Airb330

Dec 17, 2014, 9:38 AM

Doubt it

There are still huge swaths of EDGE20 minutes outside of Philadelphia. Almost the entire state of Delaware is GPRS. No way they'll be able to run fiber and deploy LTE on PCS that fast in this area. There simply won't be enough contractors do it all. And that is the 'fast and easy' way, without adding HSPA+ or LTE on 700 or 1700/2100...

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