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Yesterday, the FCC officially granted the 600 MHz spectrum licenses that T-Mobile successfully secured in the recent broadcast incentive auction. The Un-carrier now officially possesses a staggering average of 31 MHz of 600 MHz spectrum licenses across the nation, more than quadrupling its low-band holdings (click for spectrum auction reactions from Verizon and AT&T).
With the spectrum transfer complete, the real fun begins. Despite the cries from skeptics, T-Mobile has already kicked off deployment activities and will see the first sites ready for testing this summer! This timeline - well ahead of expectations – sets the stage for commercial operations later this year.
The source is a bit of a soyvertisement but still interesting if read in that light.
(Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Sunday June 18 2017, @10:10PM (2 children)
I wonder if this will help google fi, which piggybacks off T-mobile?
Dunno if the frequency was included already in devices...
(Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday June 18 2017, @11:16PM (1 child)
None of the current Project Fi phones support that spectrum.
So unless Google has a new Project Fi phone up their sleeves, the only way this helps Project Fi is by reducing congestion on the existing bands.
The building penetration capabilities of this spectrum may make it ideal for data plans as well as phones, but rural seems to be the market they are aiming for,
Samsung is going to release a 600 MHz phone by the end of the year, but right now there aren't many phones with that on the market.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Monday June 19 2017, @02:08AM
I was recently in the mountains, hence my interest....;-)