At the event, T-Mobile‘s top executive said that the company has deployed only 60% of its total holdings of 2.5GHz spectrum leaving plenty of prime mid-band spectrum that T-Mobile can use to finish its 4G refarming. Sievert says that 80% of T-Mobile‘s customer base employs a 5G phone or other devices. Daryl Schoolar, an analyst at Recon, notes that T-Mobile‘s 2.5GHz airwaves and not its C-band holdings make up the majority of its mid-band spectrum.
“Our business model for fixed wireless focuses on fallow capacity. A network we built principally for mobile, it was paid for by mobile and we find pockets all over the country where no normal amount of mobile usage will take up our capacity and only in those places do we approve an applicant for home broadband.”-Mike Sievert, CEO, T-Mobile
