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AT&T's LTE Stretches Out to Cover 300M POPs

Sep 4, 2014, 8:56 AM by Eric M. Zeman

AT&T today said the footprint of its LTE 4G network now covers 300 million points-of-prepense. The growth comes months ahead of schedule for AT&T, which now blankets about 95.5% of Americans with 4G. AT&T's LTE network will eventually reach 97% of the population.

May 4, 2021
As part of its quarterly earnings report today, T-Mobile provided an update on its 5G rollout and Sprint customer migration. The company's faster "Ultra Capacity" 5G network — the bulk of which relies on 2.5 GHz mid-band radio frequencies — now covers 140 million people and is on track to cover 200 million by the end of 2021.

AT&T Expands 5G Network, Details Plans for Next Year

Jul 14, 2021
AT&T today shared an update on the expansion of its 5G network, and shared plans for its 5G network going forward. The company's sub-6 GHz 5G network now covers 250 million people nationwide.

T-Mobile Maps its Expanded High-Speed 5G Coverage

Jul 29, 2021
As T-Mobile continues to expand its 5G network, PCMag reports that the company has updated its coverage maps to differentiate between its faster "Ultra Capacity" 5G and its slower but more widely-available "Extended Range" 5G. T-Mobile's 5G Ultra Capacity network uses a mid-band frequency (2.5 GHz, AKA band 41, which was inherited from Sprint) that offers faster data speeds than most sub-6 GHz 5G, and much better coverage than mmWave 5G.

T-Mobile Details Plans to Keep its Lead in Mid-Band 5G Through 2023

Dec 1, 2021
T-Mobile recently announced that its mid-band 5G network now covers over 200 million people, a threshold that the industry acknowledges as "nationwide" coverage. (Mid-band 5G offers an ideal balance of fast data speeds and broad coverage compared to 5G in other bands.) In an interview with Phone Scoop, T-Mobile executives detailed how they plan to maintain the company's lead in mid-band 5G even as Verizon and AT&T launch mid-band 5G early next year.

Verizon Details C-Band 5G Launch Plans, Promises 10x Data Speed

Jan 4, 2022
Verizon has formally announced plans to launch 5G in the new "C-band" mid-band radio frequencies later his month, and filled in details of what the launch will include. The company is promising to cover 100 million people — nearly 1/3 of the population — with the new network at launch.

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dougm

Sep 4, 2014, 10:00 AM

Bogus coverage maps

About a month or two ago, AT&T changed their coverage viewer on their website. You used to be able to select Voice coverage and get a street-level depiction of their coverage, with a scale of poor, fair, good, and excellent coverage strength. Now, their maps are a binary depiction of coverage, either there's coverage or no coverage.

In many areas, 4G LTE is stated on the maps, but I have experienced 2G coverage.

AT&T is just as bad as Sprint is about its coverage maps now. Completely overstated and bogus claims of 4G coverage where there is none.

T-Mobile is the most honest and transparent about its coverage on its maps. Verizon is a close 2nd, with AT&T and Sprint being complete liars.

I hate AT&T.

linkfeeney

where do you live??

I live in NJ, I have no problem at all.

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Joshmo

dougm said:
About a month or two ago, AT&T changed their coverage viewer on their website. You used to be able to select Voice coverage and get a street-level depiction of their coverage, with a scale of poor, fair, good, and excel

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T Bone

at&t's coverage, particularly high speed data coverage, was generally full of holes until about 2011-2012, since then, coverage has improved dramatically, so much so that one never hears the once near ubiquitous at&t 'dropped call' jokes. My last dro...
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