{"id":23350,"date":"2020-08-04T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=23350"},"modified":"2020-08-04T13:29:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T17:29:47","slug":"standalone-5g-network-turned-on-t-mobile-expands-coverage-by-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=23350","title":{"rendered":"<b>Standalone 5G Network Turned On<\/b>, T-Mobile Expands Coverage by 30%"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>T-Mobile switches on standalone 5G network, expands coverage by 30 percent<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<em>It marked the occasion with a drone show in North Dakota<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By Chris Welch<br \/>\nThe Verge<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23352\" style=\"width: 759px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23352\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23352\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-04-at-1.28.03-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"749\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-04-at-1.28.03-PM.png 749w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-04-at-1.28.03-PM-300x201.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: T-Mobile<\/p><\/div>\n<p>T-Mobile says that it has officially switched on \u201cthe world\u2019s first standalone 5G network,\u201d allowing the company to maximize the use of its 600MHz 5G spectrum. Previously, that 600MHz footprint was directly tied to the carrier\u2019s LTE coverage map and thus limited in reach. \u201cWith today\u2019s launch, 600MHz 5G can go beyond the mid-band signal, covering hundreds of square miles from a single tower and going deeper into buildings than before,\u201d T-Mobile .<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-sidebar-fixed l-segment l-article-body-segment\">\n<div class=\"l-col__main\">\n<div class=\"c-entry-content \">\n<p id=\"FTLje0\">It celebrated this expanded 5G availability \u2014 T-Mobile claims standalone 5G immediately increases its 5G footprint by 30 percent \u2014 by putting on a drone show in Lisbon, North Dakota, an example of one of the small towns that\u2019s now getting 5G for the first time. In all, the standalone launch brings 5G \u201cto nearly 2,000 additional cities and towns.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"OlcCFN\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"p-scalable-video\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WEX_0rfNk80?rel=0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"xGpNTW\">That\u2019s a decent bump for day one, but T-Mobile says standalone 5G is really about the future. It \u201cwill lead to an environment where transformative applications are made possible \u2014 things like connected self-driving vehicles, supercharged IoT, real-time translation\u2026 and things we haven\u2019t even dreamed of yet. In SA areas, T-Mobile engineers have already seen up to a 40 percent improvement in latency during testing,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"VhdtDc\">Some existing 5G smartphones on T-Mobile will work with the standalone 5G network. \u201cOnePlus, Qualcomm Technologies and Samsung have helped the Un-carrier ensure existing devices can access SA 5G with a software update, based on compatibility,\u201d the carrier said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"6AcFOy\">T-Mobile\u2019s competitors eventually plan to launch their own standalone 5G networks, though for now, they\u2019re still on non-standalone (NSA). Dish Network\u2019s eventual 5G network will also be standalone since it has no existing 4G network to lean on.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/8\/4\/21354010\/t-mobile-standalone-5g-600mhz-better-coverage-now-available\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/8\/4\/21354010\/t-mobile-standalone-5g-600mhz-better-coverage-now-available<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T-Mobile switches on standalone 5G network, expands coverage by 30 percent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}