Verizon has been all over the news recently, and unfortunately, not for good reasons.
Said simply, there have been a lot of questions about their 5G deployment.
In the U.S., AT&T and Verizon are deploying 5G in the 3 GHz "C band," while T-Mobile uses the 2.5 GHz band, which they acquired during the Sprint acquisition.
Lower frequencies travel further and penetrate buildings better than higher frequencies. It's physics. T-Mobile's deployment is about 1 GHz below AT&T and Verizon's C-band spectrum deployment, which gives them a coverage benefit.
According to OpenSignal, T-Mobile customers are able to get a 5G signal almost 70% of the time.
Verizon's availability, however, is incredibly low at ~8%, even after a $10 billion capital deployment, exposing a possible coverage deficiency. As Craig Moffett said, Verizon's coverage is "full of holes"!
Most customers wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a 5G or 4G LTE signal; however, many operators are trying to tout a value proposition based on 5G, and making the grade is important.
The real issue this highlights is that our entire industry is now being built on a spectrum pipeline that is becoming more expensive to deploy - the issue won't go away soon.
In tomorrow's edition of 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙏𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢 𝘾𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙧, I'll share my thoughts on how this dynamic could shape the industry over the next decade.
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