Verizon, AT&T spend over $68 billion trying to catch up to T-Mobile's 5G layer cake

T-Mobile's purchase of Sprint allowed to acquire a hoard of mid-band 2.5GHz spectrum and that gave the nation's second-largest carrier a head start over and AT&T in building out a 5G network. Low-band spectrum covers more ground than other spectrum, penetrates structures better, but offers slower download data speeds closer to 4G LTE. High-band spectrum travels only short distances, has trouble penetrating structures, but delivers the fastest 5G speeds. Mid-band is in the middle, able to travel longer distances than high-band, but not as far as low-band. It also offers 5G download data ...

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