T-Mobile catches up with Sprint: Both carriers now cover 280 million POPs with LTE

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T-Mobile catches up with Sprint: Both carriers now cover 280 million POPs with LTE


Some highlights that will affect more of the customers from the story;

T-Mobile plans to shut down the legacy MetroPCS CDMA network on June 21, and Carter said that there are now fewer than 300,000 subscribers still on the CDMA network. The company still needs to shut down the legacy network in three major markets: Dallas, Miami and New York City.

Around 80 percent MetroPCS' spectrum had been refarmed and integrated into the T-Mobile network as of the end of the first quarter. Ray said that T-Mobile can integrate MetroPCS spectrum into its network very quickly and has already done some of that work in Dallas and New York.

Currently, T-Mobile has at least 15x15 MHz LTE deployments in 150 markets, which T-Mobile plans to expand to 200 by year-end. T-Mobile has also been repurposing decommissioned network gear as it shut down the legacy CDMA network, Ray said. "There's been a host of goodness that has come out of that combination," he added.

 

[mdk32014]

I think tmo is a bit better.

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