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Weak demand for FCC’s 5G mid-band auction hands T-Mobile a win-win

August 24, 2022

Did you ever wonder why T-Mobile was willing to spend $26 billion to buy Sprint? You didn’t think it was because T-Mobile badly wanted its rivals’ stores, customer list, and operations, did you? Did you? T-Mobile wanted the hoard of 2.5GHz mid-band spectrum that Sprint owned and it wanted it for a specific reason. Unlike Verizon and AT&T, both of which started their 5G build-out by working with their mmWave spectrum first, T-Mobile had a better plan.

T-Mobile’s purchase of Sprint was a shrewd move and the reason why it is arguably number one in 5G

What T-Mobile realized was that the short distances that mmWave signals travel would increase the time it would take Verizon and AT&T to build its 5G platform.

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