T-Mobile Lays Out Its Network Plans For The FCC
October 16, 2018
T-Mobile US sketched out its vision for a combined 5G network if its proposed merger with Sprint goes through and argued that the combination will put it in a position to better compete in a 5G landscape, in a presentation to the Federal Communications Commission.
While much of the filed presentation was redacted in terms of the 5G-related models supporting its case and some of the specifics of the two current networks, T-Mobile US said that it will be able to achieve a much faster, higher capacity 5G network as a combined company than either carrier could on its own.
The carrier’s points included:
-Spectrum position: The presentation laid out the spectrum position of each carrier individually for 5G, as well as the combined company. Sprint plans to use its 2.5 GHz holdings for both LTE and 5G, but the “propagation characteristics [present]economic challenges in providing broad or consistent coverage.” Comparatively, T-Mobile US said that on its own, it can utilize its 600 MHz spectrum for wide area coverage and for IoT, but said that it “lacks capacity” and its ability to augment with its millimeter wave spectrum is limited to dense urban areas. The combination of the two companies’ spectrum, it added, “addresses all aspects of 5G.”
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