Re: Maps to Compare AT&T, T-Mobile, US Cellular, & Verizon Mobile Coverage and US State of the Mobile Union 1H 2021

On 10/5/2021 3:31 PM, Wade Garrett wrote:
> On 10/5/21 4:52 PM, badgolferman wrote:

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>> My phone is 5G capable. I don’t care about LTE. T-Mobile is ahead of the
>> game with 5G coverage which is what matters now.
>>
> Yup, just as long as you're downtown or along an interstate highway ;-)

Hopefully badgolferman realizes that T-Mobile's 5G coverage is a subset 
of its 4G coverage, it's not like they have put in 5G only cells.

For most people _coverage_ is what matters most, not whether that 
coverage is 5G averaging 71 Mb/s or 4G averaging 53.3 Mb/s. If that 
difference in data speed is what matters to badgolferman, that's fine, 
but he should have said "5G coverage which is what matters now _to me_."

Giving up significant geographic coverage in order to gain a small speed 
increase is not something that a lot of people would be willing to accept.