Legere was jacked up on Redbull, so his enthusiasm was expected... but I wanted to post a couple of graphics that I got from Spectrum Gateway
The colors on the map represent how much continuous spectrum is available for LTE downlink in AWS-1 or PCS band without carrier aggregation:
Black: 0 MHz
Yellow: 5 MHz
Green: 10 MHz
Red: 15 MHz (peak download speed of about 112 Mbps)
Magenta: 20 MHz (peak download speed of about 150 Mbps)
Together red and magenta colors show where T-Mobile can deploy Wideband LTE.
First.. their current network
Now, what they gained with the new 600Mhz spectrum rights
As with most things, more is better... And T-Mobile got big beefy chunks of spectrum (wider means higher capacity and better bandwidth). And this is just the rights to use the spectrum, not where they will have towers, etc... but it illustrates just how much their network will benefit from the auction win.
By the way, I don't think it is a coincidence that the areas that got the least amount of spectrum are big metro areas. This spectrum is recovered from UHF TV stations, and I think that there might be exclusion zones still in place (like they dealt with during the 700Mhz rollout). But metro areas weren't an issue as is... the big thing here is everywhere else.
Oh, and if you work on an oil platform in the Gulf.... you'll be able to binge watch Netflix now.
The colors on the map represent how much continuous spectrum is available for LTE downlink in AWS-1 or PCS band without carrier aggregation:
Black: 0 MHz
Yellow: 5 MHz
Green: 10 MHz
Red: 15 MHz (peak download speed of about 112 Mbps)
Magenta: 20 MHz (peak download speed of about 150 Mbps)
Together red and magenta colors show where T-Mobile can deploy Wideband LTE.
First.. their current network
Now, what they gained with the new 600Mhz spectrum rights
As with most things, more is better... And T-Mobile got big beefy chunks of spectrum (wider means higher capacity and better bandwidth). And this is just the rights to use the spectrum, not where they will have towers, etc... but it illustrates just how much their network will benefit from the auction win.
By the way, I don't think it is a coincidence that the areas that got the least amount of spectrum are big metro areas. This spectrum is recovered from UHF TV stations, and I think that there might be exclusion zones still in place (like they dealt with during the 700Mhz rollout). But metro areas weren't an issue as is... the big thing here is everywhere else.
Oh, and if you work on an oil platform in the Gulf.... you'll be able to binge watch Netflix now.