T-Mobile to add more 5G coverage and speed by winning 3.45 GHz airwaves in FCC auction 110

By Scott Marlette Last updated Feb 2, 2022

T-Mobile announced that it has recently added to its 5G arsenal by winning an auction that gives it mid-band spectrum at 3.45GHz. This combines with the 2.5GHz mid-band airwaves it has owned since closing on the Sprint acquisition in April 2010. And this comes at a time when Verizon has catapulted itself into position as a legit 5G challenger to the current U.S. leader, T-Mobile, thanks to the activation of its C-band radios.

T-Mobile wins more mid-band spectrum in the FCC’s latest auction

T-Mobile covers 210 million people in the U.S. with its fast mid-band 5G service and hopes that the $3 billion investment it made to win the additional mid-band spectrum in the FCC’s Auction 110 will allow it to cover more 5G phone owners. The 3.45GHz airwaves won at the latest auction adds an average of 21MHz of spectrum covering an area where 184 million

people live.

T-Mobile’s most recently published 5G coverage map

Neville Ray, T-Mobile’s President of Technology, says, “We’re already delivering customers the largest, fastest, and most reliable 5G network, and we’re always working to make the best 5G network even better. While Verizon and AT&T remain locked in a 5G race for second place, we’ll use this additional spectrum to take our 5G network to the next level and deliver even greater 5G performance to our customers across the nation.”

Of course, it wouldn’t be an announcement from T-Mobile without the carrier taking a shot at Verizon and AT&T. In its blog post, the nation’s second-largest carrier notes that the combination of the 2.5GHz spectrum from Sprint and the 3.45GHz airwaves won at auction will produce a network that its competitors can’t equal despite spending over $80 billion in an attempt to do so.

310 million people in the U.S. are covered by T-Mobile’s 5G service

T-Mobile notes that its 5G coverage in the states covers 310 million people, twice as large as AT&T and five times as large as Verizon. 210 million of them are accessing T-Mobile’s Ultra-Capacity 5G. That is twice the number that uses Verizon’s Ultra Wideband and “multitudes” more than the number that uses AT&T’s 5G+. By the end of this year, T-Mobile plans to bring its 5G Ultra-Capacity 5G to 260 million people, hiking it even more to 300 million people by 2023.

While T-Mobile has the speed and coverage leads, turning on its C-band 5G network (except at towers nearby certain airports) allowed Verizon to hike its median 5G download data speed by 50% comparing the week before the January 19th launch and the week after. Following the C-band launch, T-Mobile saw its median 5G download data speed rise from 181.99 Mbps to 187.11 Mbps.

During that same period of time, AT&T’s median 5G download data speed rose from 68.43 Mbps to 70.46 Mbps while Verizon’s jumped from 76.51 Mbps to 116.29 Mbps.

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