{"id":224854,"date":"2017-08-17T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=224854"},"modified":"2017-08-17T07:41:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T05:41:11","slug":"t-mobile-rolling-out-600mhz-lte-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/224854-t-mobile-rolling-out-600mhz-lte-network.html","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile rolling out 600MHz LTE network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.t-mobile.com\/news-and-blogs\/cheyenne-600-mhz.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>T-Mobile has started using<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0its new 600MHz LTE network, leveraging the low-band spectrum won in a US government broadcast incentive auction.<\/p>\n<p>T-Mobile\u2019s first 600MHz LTE sites were switched on in Cheyenne, Wyoming using Nokia equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in rural America, and other markets where the spectrum is clear of broadcasting, T-Mobile plans to deploy at a fast pace.<\/p>\n<p>What would normally be a two-year process from auction to consumer availability will now take six months.<\/p>\n<p>T-Mobile said it is working with infrastructure providers, chipset makers, and device manufacturers to bring 600MHz LTE to customers at a faster pace.<\/p>\n<p>Nokia and Qualcomm have launched new technology, and Samsung and LG plan to launch phones that tap into the new spectrum in Q4 2017.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/224632-we-tested-rains-lte-a-in-a-smartphone-with-surprisingly-good-results.html\">We tested Rain\u2019s LTE-A in a smartphone, with surprisingly good results<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T-Mobile is using new 600MHz spectrum, which will accelerate network expansion in rural America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":201358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45376,2490,2460],"class_list":["post-224854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-600mhz","tag-lte","tag-t-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224870,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224854\/revisions\/224870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}