T-Mobile is marking another big step in its nationwide 5G rollout, expanding the next-generation wireless technology across Western North Carolina.
Helping move coverage into Western North Carolina, T-Mobile recently completed a world’s first, the launch of a commercial nationwide standalone architecture (SA) 5G network.
Standalone architecture is a critical building block for the continued development of 5G and helps expand T-Mobile’s footprint to nearly 2,000 additional cities and towns including the following in Western North Carolina:
Buncombe County
– Asheville
– Black Mountain
Haywood County
– Canton
Henderson County
– Barker Heights
Jackson County
– Sylva
The very heart of wireless service is based on spectrum — invisible highways in the air that transport voice and data from a phone to a cell site. The initial nationwide 5G rollout from T-Mobile is based on the operator’s 600 MHz spectrum, also referred to as low-band. It provides the foundational layer for T-Mobile’s 5G network. Download speeds on T-Mobile’s nationwide 5G are already 2x times faster than its LTE service on average and that experience should improve exponentially over time, just like with 4G.
T-Mobile is also rolling out what’s referred to as mid-band spectrum, acquired as part of the Sprint merger. Mid-band spectrum is the ideal spectrum band, the goldilocks of spectrum bands if you will, for the 5G era: compared to low-band spectrum, it allows lots of data to travel at faster speeds over relatively far distances.
For more information on T-Mobile’s 5G service, visit t-mobile.com/coverage or check out T-Mobile’s zoomable 5G coverage map. For more information on T-Mobile’s latest 5G devices, head to t-mobile.com/cell-phones/network/5g.