How T-Mobile Is Lying About Their 5G Coverage

David and David tell you about T-Mobile’s 5G network and why it’s not as impressive as they’re making it sound.

T-Mobile’s 5G rollout is mostly low-band 5G, which has a wider range, but slower speeds. High-band 5G provides the fastest speeds, but cover the shortest amount of distance.

Additionally, T-Mobile only sells two 5G phones compatible with its network: OnePlus 7T Pro 5G McLaren and the Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ 5G.

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[PayetteForward]

CORRECTION: T-Mobile does have mid-band and high-band 5G in certain US cities.

[robthatsme]

Speaking of misleading, your title of this vid says they’re lying then 18 seconds in you say they’re not technically lying. Are you lying? Credibility mean anything to you? 👎

[jbell]

I like that there deploying low band first has I think coverage is the most important thing for a phone not just raw speed. So u don't drop calls cause let's face it it's still a phone it's made to take and receive calls

[kgtnp]

they're not lying at all. Guys stop using click bait titles.

[realsmt]

Tmobile has mmwave spectrum. Its deployed in several cities.

[realsmt]

5G is about capacity of networks to not bottom out from heavy traffic. It has never been, and never will be, about speed. It's about low latency, instantaneous connections that will usher in a new generation of sensor tech, gaming experiences, VR and ar applications, robotics and autonomous applications. Download speeds is a fart in the wind when it comes to 5g.

[roberthernandez]

That's because none of the companies have the low, mid, and high band infrastructure yet. TMobile decided to build out from the low band. Looks like Verizon started with high band. If anything... You can't use mm wave 5G from Verizon unless you have line of sight with their tower. Biggest take away is that TMobile has more coverage using the 600mhz band. Sprint has a huge stake in mid band that would help T-Mobiles network compete with Verizon and AT&T

[dekoomers]

You may want to re-upload this video with the correct information.

[davidcanales]

High band will not work indoors. Period. It won't even go more than about half a mile OUTSIDE. the best carriers will have to have ALOT of spectrum and it will have to use some 3G spectrum eventually to do it. Verizon commercials are all OUTSIDE - notice that?

[mehmethinc]

Comparing apple to orange is really interesting. As you guys mentioned in the video T-Mobile has High-Band mmW and Low-Band NR600 5G. If you test mmW performance of different networks' performance e.g. TMO vs VZW depends on the location/spectrum sharing you will see different results. E.g. In Ohio T-Mobile has 850 MHz total spectrum so the point is comparison should be based on apple to apple. Yes T-Mobile launched world's first low band 5G network which gives 5G coverage way laerger (larger areas) than high band mmW 5G coverage. Also, if you consider high-band can't penetrate everywhere that means you have to have Line-of-Sight all time in order to have 5G nr leg as an additional to LTE. Currently all networks have EN-DC meaning dual-connected with LTE so the only benefit is adding 5G as an another layer for more throughput for the device however once SA (Stand-alone) is launched this year than things will change because 5G is not only Throughput, it's throughput + ultra low latency + edge computing etc. and in order to do that you have to have a 5G coverage first and low-band gives this almost in everywhere as long as 5G radio is deployed. So, as a summary you have to compare apple to apple first!, thanks for the video. I just clicked because of title but it doesn't give more/better information compare to other videos. Keep up the good work and share more information for the next videos.

[kazi]

Thankfully they’re merging with Sprint to get their mid band to combine the low band and mid band together and aggregate it

[realsmt]

Tmobile low band 5g is actually slow because they put very little concentration of spectrum to that connection.

[RebeccaRuano]

“It’s pretty crazy.” was the guy’s response in the commercial. 😆

[grantdeisig]

I never saw this as lying. People just don't ever care to understand any of the tech, I'm personally excited for 600mhz, because I live out in a rural area and would love to see dependable coverage where I currently don't have it. Even if it's only 4g rated speeds on 5g, that's still better than nothing. 👍 to T-mobiles rural expansion.

[jimmesc]

You don't look old enough to remember rabbit ears.
Good vid, guys.

[kenpoq]

Lie? I get 800Mbps in the city and in my house 400Mbps + T-Mobile 5G Rock
Any where I do speed test minimum I get 250Mbps but many time I get 800Mbps



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[madslayer]

It's still faster than 4G though, not much of a lie, especially since the T-Mobile and Sprint merger is about to happen

[Nehtor]

The review I want to see is if TMobile's 5g helps rural areas. I could care less about big cities where there public wifi around every corner. Does their new 5g low band service give 4g speeds to the 99% of the country that is not a big city.

[Hawk]

Do we have high band t moble in Irmo SC and what about t mobile hi-speed internet?

[saulmetzger]

Are they really lying though? I upgraded from the 4G version of the OnePlus 7T Pro McLaren to the 5G version fully knowing it would be utilizing the low-band (and eventually mid-band after the Sprint merger). Using T-Mobile's 5G through Google Fi, I have seen an increase in coverage and marginal speed increases over 4G. Until the high-band hardware is at every street corner in the US (which is years away) T-Mobile's approach seems to be the most effective way of rolling out a nation wide upgrade to wireless coverage. Unless you're a mindless consumer who does no research before purchasing a product or service, you're not being duped.