T-Mobile USA announced this week that their “5G Ultra Capacity” service had reached 200 million consumers in the United States. This is T-fastest Mobile’s 5G coverage, which is virtually exclusive to the company. You may have previously noticed a “5G” logo on your T-Mobile phone, but you may now also notice the company’s 5G UC logo in a few locations.
“Extended Range” 5G from T-Mobile
If you’ve had 4G coverage with a T-Mobile smartphone for a few years and only recently upgraded to 5G, you probably didn’t notice much of a difference in data speed. This isn’t surprising, given that the slowest 5G speeds aren’t much quicker than the quickest 4G.
T-Mobile USA’s initial wave of 5G coverage could enhance download and upload speeds slightly. Certainly not as revolutionary as the speed boosts we experienced while switching from 3G to 4G, but nevertheless. T-Extended Mobile’s Range 5G was the initial wave. On T-600 Mobile’s MHz 5G bands, this is the slowest 5G with the most coverage (nearly 308 million people across 1.7 million square miles, according to T-Mobile).
T-5G Mobile’s Unified Communications (Ultra Capacity)
T-Mobile USA offers “Ultra Capacity” 5G coverage. If your phone is accessing this network, you’ll see “5G UC” branding appear on your phone, presuming your phone has the right logo to display said network. T-5 G Mobile’s UC network uses the 2.5 GHz and 24/28/39 GHz bands.
We can examine the distinctions between the various types of 5G coverage by looking at some simple infographics regarding 5G. T-Mobile wants to cover a variety of 5G speeds, from the slowest and most generally available to the fastest and shortest-range 5G.
T-5G Mobile’s UC branding is multi-layered, and it coexists alongside T-5G Mobile’s Extended Range.
Definitions for 5G:
- Low-band: less than 1 GHz
- 3.6-6 GHz in the mid-band (Under 6Ghz is Sub-6)
- 24-40 GHz high-band (Over 24Ghz is mmWave or UW or Ultra Wideband)
T-Mobile 5G Extended Range offers a little low-band 5G (600 Mhz), whereas T-Mobile UC offers bands of 2.5 GHz and 24/28/39 GHz. As a result, they’re striving to cover a variety of bands to provide as much 5G-brand coverage as possible throughout the United States.
T-Mobile is currently doing a good job of making it appear and feel like they’re winning the 5G war by offering a wide range of band coverage in low, mid, and high-band 5G. The speed boost you’ll see on your phone won’t be as significant as it was when you upgraded from 3G to 4G, but it’ll be plenty for mobile carriers to keep getting excited about making sure you’re expecting to require a 5G-capable smartphone as soon as possible.
Source: slashgear
