Given T-Mobile’s incredible early lead over its wireless industry arch-rivals in terms of both low-band 5G deployments and mid-band network upgrades, it might come as a shock to hear the “Un-carrier” is only now launching its first-ever 5G-enabled mobile hotspot.
An affordable device and some game-changing new plans
The blazing fast hotspot is capable of keeping up to 30 devices connected to T-Mo’s “Extended Range” and “Ultra Capacity” 5G networks simultaneously for a maximum of 24 hours on a single 5,050mAh battery charge, normally fetching a fairly reasonable $336. That undercuts both Verizon’s MiFi M2100 5G UW and the AT&T-exclusive Netgear Nighthawk 5G Mobile Hotspot Pro, but it’s actually not today’s biggest T-Mobile news.
Ultra Capacity 5G on an increasingly “ultra” scale
Unfortunately, we don’t get a list of places where mid-band rollouts are to be expected by the end of the year, although T-Mobile’s head honchos did repeatedly claim of late that this “Ultra Capacity” 5G signal is ready for an expansion to a grand total of 100 million people in 2020, followed by a doubling of that already remarkable number by the end of 2021.
