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T-Mobile 5G - 1 1/2 years later
I've posted an initial T-Mobile 5G experience with LG Velvet (in the fall of 2020), and a summer road trip / review in summer of 2021 on the east coast. Here's my basic review 1 ½ years after T-Mobi...
I suspect that it really depends on the site, and its overall status and where it is on being upgraded.
Eg. In my local city, in suburbia, sites are quite decent. In L.A. (San Fernando Valley), last night, I was getting 1-5Mbps, flipping between 5G and 4G LTE with 'full bars'. The 5G was coming from a different site, and wasn't UC. Regardless, 1-5Mbps is quite poor with 40MHz worth of LTE spectrum deployed on the nearby site.
All sites aren’t created/supported equally, some are more equal than others.
Eg. San Simeon being a 5G site had T1 backhaul, giving downloads of ~500kbps, while the site up at Hearst Castle was only 4G LTE on B4, pushing +120Mbps.
I suspect that a lot of the overall ‘network infrastructure’ varies do to colocation and easy access to fiber vs. the build your own/legacy sites.
