T-Mobile executives change tune on fixed wireless following Sprint merger deal

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T-Mobile executives for years have downplayed the opportunity for fixed wireless technology to replace wired internet connections. But with the proposed deal to swallow Sprint, T-Mobile executives said that the merger would position the newly-combined company to offer internet services to homes, offices and other locations—a move that would put the company into direct competition with the likes of Comcast, Charter, Verizon and other wired internet service providers.

T-Mobile’s Mike Sievert boasted of the wireless speeds that a combined Sprint and T-Mobile could provide through a combination of 5G technology running on spectrum bands including T-Mobile’s 600 MHz and Sprint’s 2.5 GHz. “That's going to 450 megabits per second within the planning horizon of this business,” he said. “That's a national average, not a place to get in some parts of some towns, like our competitors' millimeter-wave strategy that can go higher than that in very isolated places.”


T-Mobile executives change tune on fixed wireless following Sprint merger deal