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posted by n1 on Sunday June 18 2017, @09:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the beyond-the-urban-core dept.

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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.

Source: https://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news-and-blogs/t-mobiles-new-600-mhz-network-rollout-begins-this-summer.htm


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  • (Score: 2) by Lagg on Monday June 19 2017, @12:54AM

    by Lagg (105) on Monday June 19 2017, @12:54AM (#527667) Homepage Journal

    Yeah so it'd end up costing me more than the minutes I can put in all at once that last a year just to maintain it looks like.

    Also I assume they don't do that because then they can't charge crazy amounts and also justify more price increases when people use the data forced on them. I mean people I know seem to use it just to use it since it's there. I'd use it like an antenna.

    Normal users need get together and fund our own service. We can totally break in. The future is now in small business telecom!

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