T-Mobile took a completely different approach than Verizon and AT&T and it paid off big time
T-Mobile’s 5G layer cake was the blueprint for its 5G rollout
AT&T calls T-Mobile’s purchase of additional mid-band spectrum “anticompetitive foreclosure”
Perhaps AT&T confused T-Mobile‘s shrewd move in purchasing Sprint for its mid-band 2.5GHz spectrum to be anticompetitive. It actually was a brilliant strategy that highlights the mistake that AT&T and Verizon made leaving the pair falling behind with their focus on mmWave. Instead of making that admission, AT&T told the FCC, “T-Mobile’s spectrum strategy – i.e., accumulating an outsized share of a key scarce input that it has no current plans to deploy, thus denying it to rivals and raising their costs – is a classic example of anticompetitive foreclosure.”