[1st-mile-nm] T-Mobile

[Steve Cimelli]

Drew:   

I don’t know of an app that will give you this information, but you can get a free test-drive
device and connect to it by wi-fi.

Here’s the URL to order a trial unit:    https://www.t-mobile.com/offers/free-trial <https://www.t-mobile.com/offers/free-trial>

They also show where 5G is deployed on their 5G Coverage map.
Of course distance from the transmitter will matter.

Steve  Cimelli
Preferred Business Solutions



On Dec 2, 2019, at 5:32 PM, Drew Einhorn <drew.einhorn at gmail.com> wrote:

I believe my relatively inexpensive moto g5s plus supports 700 MHz B12, but not 600 MHz B71. The nearest cell tower came online within the past year. But, my phone was never able to talk to it until today.

Is there a good app that reports on the frequency capabilities of the phone it's running on and the tower it's talking to?

I've found one called kimovil, but I believe it reports published specs not diagnostic data from the phone.






On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 4:36 PM Mimbres Communications <mimcom at sw-ei.com <mailto:mimcom at sw-ei.com>> wrote:
T-Mobile has been upgrading sites to support Band 71 (600 MHz).  Only a handful of phones manufactured in the past 18 months or so include support for Band 71, but Band 12 (700 Mhz) is quite widely supported.  Despite holding license for 700 in many locations, T-Mobile had not upgraded many of their older, more rural sites.

Several of those with which I am personally familiar had smaller panel antennas for 1.9 GHz (PCS) and 2.1 GHz (AWS) installed.  These have been (or are being) replaced by 8-foot high multi-band panels supporting 1.9, 2.1, 700, and 600.



On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 4:21 PM Drew Einhorn <drew.einhorn at gmail.com <mailto:drew.einhorn at gmail.com>> wrote:
I saw some news article about T-Mobile enabling new frequency bands nationally to support their 5G rollout next week. They grumbled about how it would only support a few high dollar phones that nobody has. 

But, it looks like it's having a significant effect on service for older LTE phones. I live in a rural area with poor service at best and mostly no service. I was at home listening to an audio stream via wifi -> cellphone -> bluetooth headset. I got in the car and drove to Albuquerque and the stream did not drop when I got out of wifi range. It appeared to successfully hand off to an LTE connection, ... without dropping the audio. There may have been signal loss covered by buffering on the phone.

Y'all remember when LTE originated as a term to describe 3G pretending to be 4G? I'm sure we haven't seen the last of the marketing folks butchering the language.

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