T-Mobile adds faster midband 5G coverage to more than 80 new cities and towns
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile on Wednesday announced a much wider rollout of its 2.5GHz midband 5G coverage, adding 81 new cities and towns to a total list of 90 markets throughout the US.
Midband 5G is much faster and more appropriately fitting of the 5G moniker than the type of low-band 5G we've seen from AT&T and T-Mobile and more reliable than high-band mmWave 5G, which is used primarily by Verizon, although AT&T and T-Mobile also have limited support. (mmWave 5G is ultra-fast but has poor range.) T-Mobile also has low-band and mmWave coverage, but the company is touting its three-layer approach of low-, mid-, and high-band 5G as its edge over the competition.
This is our 5G strategy in action. Mid-band is the 5G spectrum, and T-Mobile has more of it...