UPDATE T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) announced it is adding new capacity to its 5G network by activating the 2.5 GHz spectrum licenses that it won in FCC Auction 108. Release of these licenses to T-Mobile had been held up by the delays in Congress to renew the FCC’s auction authority, Inside Towers reported.
By activating the new licenses, T-Mobile is expanding its Ultra Capacity 5G coverage to new communities and significantly increasing Ultra Capacity 5G bandwidth in many places across the U.S. Over the next few days, T-Mobile claims it will be lighting up spectrum covering nearly 60 million customers in roughly 300,000 square miles.
T-Mobile paid $304 million in Auction 108 for 7,156 county-based licenses covering more than 80 million people, Inside Towers reported. The balance of these licenses will be deployed throughout the year as new towers are built out.
Because a majority of the licenses cover rural areas, the company says it is delivering improved performance and connectivity of both its mobile and broadband internet services to those in previously underserved areas.
T-Mobile’s Extended Range 5G network that operates on low-band 600 MHz spectrum covers more than 330 million people across two million square miles in the continental U.S. Its Ultra Capacity 5G works on mid-band 2.5 GHz spectrum and covers more than 300 million people nationwide.
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