T-Mobile has announced the expansion of its “Wideband LTE” 700Mhz overlay. The newest additions include New York City, Long Island, and northern New Jersey while central New Jersey and Westchester County, N.Y., will have Wideband LTE coverage very soon. According to T-Mobile, customers in New York City are reporting peak download speeds of 100Mbps with average download speeds around 22Mbps. T-Mobile is using 700MHz spectrum to augment its LTE coverage alongside its existing AWS spectrum. T-Mobile is marketing the paired spectrum as Wideband LTE. The following markets feature support for the Wideband LTE overlay with further expansion slated for next year:
Alabama
Birmingham-Hoover
Daphne-Fairhope-Foley
Florence-Muscle Shoals
Huntsville
Mobile
Selma
Tuscaloosa
Valley
Arkansas
Jonesboro
California
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine
Bakersfield
Clearlake
Crescent City
Eureka-Arcata-Fortuna
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale
Modesto
Napa
Oakland-Hayward-Berkeley
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario
Sacramento–Roseville–Arden-Arcade
Salinas
San Diego-Carlsbad
San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara
San Rafael
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara
Santa Rosa
Stockton-Lodi
Ukiah
Vallejo-Fairfield
Connecticut
Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk
Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford
New Haven-Milford
Delaware
Dover
Wilmington, DE-MD-NJ
Florida
Cape Coral-Fort Myers
Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach
Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach
Gainesville
Jacksonville
Key West
Lake City
Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall
Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island
Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford
Panama City
Port St. Lucie
Sebastian-Vero Beach
Tallahassee
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater
West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Delray Beach
Georgia
Athens-Clarke County
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell
Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC
Calhoun
Gainesville
Hawaii
Urban Honolulu
Idaho
Boise City
Illinois
Champaign-Urbana
Rockford
Massachusetts
Boston
Cambridge-Newton-Framingham
Springfield
Worcester, MA-CT
Michigan
Ann Arbor
Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia
Grand Rapids-Wyoming
Ionia
Kalamazoo-Portage
Monroe
Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills
Minnesota
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
Rochester
Mississippi
Tupelo
Missouri
St. Joseph, MO-KS
Nevada
Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise
New Hampshire
Rockingham County-Strafford County
New Jersey
Atlantic City-Hammonton
Camden
Newark, NJ-PA
Ocean City
Trenton
Vineland-Bridgeton
New York
Albany-Schenectady-Troy
Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls
Syracuse
North Carolina
Fayetteville
Ohio
Columbus
Toledo
Oregon
Astoria
Bend-Redmond
Corvallis
Eugene
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA
Salem
Pennsylvania
Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ
Harrisburg-Carlisle
Lancaster
Montgomery County-Bucks County-Chester County
Philadelphia
Reading
Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton
State College
York-Hanover
Rhode Island
Providence-Warwick, RI-MA
Tennessee
Chattanooga, TN-GA
Cleveland
Jackson
Texas
Dallas-Plano-Irving
Fort Worth-Arlington
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land
Washington
Bellingham
Longview
Mount Vernon-Anacortes
Oak Harbor
Seattle-Bellevue-Everett
Spokane-Spokane Valley
Wisconsin
Appleton
Oshkosh-Neenah
In comments made within the last week, T-Mobile CFO Braxton Carter has pledged an aggressive rollout for 700Mhz spectrum and devices next year.
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