From CNET: T-Mobile may have only closed its Sprint merger earlier this month, but the carrier isn't letting the coronavirus put its plans on hold. After announcing its first deployment of the newly acquired midband spectrum in Philadelphia on April 1, T-Mobile plans to redeploy the airwaves in parts of New York in May as part of the latest expansion of its 5G network.
In turning on the 2.5GHz spectrum in New York, T-Mobile will have its first city that can showcase its 5G vision. The carrier turned on higher-frequency millimeter-wave 5G in parts of the city last summer before adding its low-band, wider-reaching 5G network nationwide last December.
On Tuesday T-Mobile will also expand the low-band footprint to include the Detroit, St. Louis and Columbus areas.
Whereas the millimeter-wave network has fast download speeds but severely limited outdoor coverage, and the low-band much better coverage but not noticeably improved speeds compared with 4G LTE, the midband spectrum allows for a combination of both with significantly faster speeds compared to 4G on service that works both indoors and outside.
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