{"id":11158,"date":"2017-08-21T15:25:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T22:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=11158"},"modified":"2017-08-21T15:26:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T22:26:07","slug":"t-mobile-us-stresses-iot-600-mhz-in-context-of-5g-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=11158","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile US stresses IoT, 600 MHz in context of 5G plans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By\u00a0Sean Kinney, Managing Editor<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a05G<\/a>,\u00a0Carriers<\/a><\/div>\n
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T-Mobile US emphasizes IoT as key 5G use case<\/h2>\n

T-Mobile US made a splash earlier this year announcing it would deploy a mobile \u201cnationwide 5G<\/a>\u201d network\u2013as opposed to 5G fixed wireless access, which Verizon and AT&T are focused on\u2013following its $8 billion acquisition of nationwide 600 MHz spectrum licenses during the Federal Communication Commission\u2019s incentive auction. This week during the Oppenheimer Technology, Internet and Communications Conference, Vice President of Investor Relations Nils Paellmann added some color to how the self-billed \u201cUn-carrier\u201d regards 5G.<\/p>\n

Asked by Oppenheimer Managing Director Tim Horan\u2013himself a T-Mobile customer\u2013how the operator thinks of mobile 5G, Paellmann said, \u201cIt means very low latency. It means higher efficiency. It means better battery life. It means the ability to accommodate potentially millions of connected devices. Those are some of the things.\u201d<\/p>\n

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According to an Aug. 4 \u201cex parte notice<\/a>\u201d to the Federal Communications Commission, T-Mobile US is looking to \u201crapidly deploy\u201d the 600 MHz spectrum, which comprises 1,525 10-megahertz licenses covering 414 of the 428 partial economic areas covered in the auction.\u00a0The carrier said it won 45% of the spectrum sold with an average depth of 31 megahertz and at least 10 megahertz covering all of the U.S. and Puerto Rico. The FCC set a 39-month timeline for television broadcasters to clear their operations from the 600 MHz spectrum band, which would put full spectrum availability into early 2020, or about the time most expect commercial 5G services to be coming on air.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re starting this August,\u201d with the 600 MHz build out, Paellmann said, noting he expects compatible Samsung and LG handsets to be available by the holiday season. \u201cWe are not going to wait 39 months. We are going to roll out much sooner. We are working with many of the broadcasters to relocate the spectrum. By 2020 it should be nearly rolled out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back to the 5G\/IoT angle, \u00a0\u201cWe can basically use our roll out of the 600 with LTE to also lay the foundation of future 5G. A lot of the radios\u2026will be upgradable, through a software upgrade, to 5G. We are not really focused that much on the fixed opportunity,\u201d Paellmann said. \u201cWe think the 600 [spectrum]could be very interesting for IoT applications. Clearly, for a lot of the IoT things you will need ubiquitous coverage. The high bandwidth spectrum, the millimeter wave that people talk about, will never give you the coverage. When we do 600, you won\u2019t have necessarily the same speed you would have with millimeter wave\u2026but I think it\u2019s a slightly different use case. For a lot of IoT you don\u2019t need the multi-gigabit speed, necessarily.\u201d<\/p>\n

That said, he added that T-Mobile is \u201cvery interested\u201d in millimeter wave and 3.5 CBRS spectrum bands. \u201cI think 3.5 has the potential to maybe become a major 5G band as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

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By\u00a0Sean Kinney, Managing Editor\u00a0on\u00a0AUGUST 10, 2017 \u00a05G,\u00a0Carriers T-Mobile US emphasizes IoT as key 5G use case T-Mobile US made a splash earlier this year announcing it would deploy a mobile \u201cnationwide 5G\u201d network\u2013as opposed to 5G fixed wireless access, which Verizon and AT&T are focused on\u2013following its $8 billion acquisition of nationwide 600 MHz spectrum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[346,434,289],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5g","category-millimeter-wave","category-usa-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11160,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11158\/revisions\/11160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}