Carter: 50% of T-Mobile users on family plans, we’ll continue promotions and boost rural coverage in 2015
Among all the busy-ness of yesterday’s leaks and [read full article]
Band 12 LTE spotted in south Austin, Texas
T-Mobile’s band 12, 700MHz LTE rollout is showing no signs of slowing down as we hear of yet another sighting of the stronger network. One of our readers from south Austin noticed much stronger signal than normal just a couple of days ago while using his Nexus 6. Curious to see the reason for the extra strength of his LTE signal, he turned to the … [read full article]
T-Mobile now covers 280 million people with LTE, same as Sprint
The revelation was made by T-Mobile’s CTO, Neville Ray, and suggests that T-Mobile is easily on target to reach its 300 million goal by the end of 2015. With 280 million POPs (or people) covered with LTE now, T-Mobile has the same number of people covered as its nearest rival, Sprint. Our favorite carrier plans to expand its LTE further in to … [read full article]
T-Mobile’s new real-life LTE coverage map – now with more magenta
You may remember, towards the end of March, T-Mobile announced and launched a brand new coverage map. It promised it would be in near real-time and give realistic coverage expectations. Unlike the traditional coverage maps, it doesn’t hold on to old … [read full article]
T-Mobile Band 12 700MHz LTE network spotted in Fresno, Talladega, Indianapolis and more…
As much as we’d love to, we can’t just take T-Mobile’s word for it that it’s busy rolling out its 700MHz frequency band 12 network. So we like to collate some of our readers’ sightings of the new low-band network in action when we can here, at TmoNews. Over the past week or two we’ve been sent a number of fresh sightings in various markets across the U.S. All of which proves that T-Mobile really has been … [read full article]
Legacy MetroPCS CDMA network to be completely shut down by June 21st?
Since combining with MetroPCS, T-Mobile has been steadily shutting down the prepaid carrier’s old CDMA network in a number of markets. The aim was always to get its customers on to T-Mobile’s more modern, faster LTE network and re-farm the old spectrum and integrate it in to T-Mobile’s network. With progress so far being quick and efficient, it looks like … [read full article]
T-Mobile gives Cincinnati’s LTE network a speed bump
A couple of readers got in touch with us over the past couple of days to inform us of some very interesting and promising network news from Cincinnati. It looks almost certain that T-Mobile has upgraded the network to a 10+10 network meaning residents on T-Mobile now have twice as many “data lanes” to use. Speed tests done by these readers show that the new … [read full article]
User complaints of T-Mobile LTE speed “throttling” get John Legere’s attention
A couple of days back, a thread on Reddit started with a user complaining that they had experienced what they believed was throttling. As you’d expect, with a topic like that, the thread soon exploded and now has over 300 comments from people who are customers, fans and even … [read full article]
Google and T-Mobile team up to launch Project Fi MVNO carrier
T-Mobile and Google have been working with each other for donkey’s years. (That’s British for: A very long time.) Going all the way back to the T-Mobile G1, the very first Android phone. But they’ve never done anything as ambitious as Project Fi seems on the service. As rumored many times, Google has finally announced its MVNO … [read full article]
T-Mobile Network Update: Band 12 spotted in more Colorado, Texas and Michigan areas
Every once in a while I try to get a hold of my TmoNews inbox and filter through all the recently sighted network changes we get sent in. Today is one of those days, and there’s a fair few new sightings to inform you of in a number of markets across the U.S. Big and small cities alike. And – of course – most of those are new 700MHz band 12 LTE sightings. With 700MHz sightings, it’s … [read full article]