AT&T 5G Plus expansion plan highlights how much its mid-band coverage trails T-Mobile
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AT&T's new 5G Plus expansion gives T-Mobile the perfect I told you so" moment. AT&T currently offers two flavors" of 5G: 5G Plus over the high-band mmWave spectrum and regular 5G, which is comparable to 4G LTE. Now, a blog post details AT&T's plan to roll the mid-band spectrum it owns into 5G Plus, conflating its fastest but hard-to-find 5G with a new variant that has a better chance of both range and speed - the kind of 5G that T-Mobile has been focused on from the beginning.
Former T-Mobile CEO John Legere slammed AT&T for not having a mid-band spectrum in 2019, stating that 5G needs a low-band, mid-band, and high-band spectrum to work efficiently. This is because that high-band mmWave 5G offers the fastest speeds over shorter...