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| 14 | T-Mobile launches commercial 5G Home Internet (簡訳:T-Mobileが商用5Gホームインターネットを開始) | ---------- | |
| FierceWireless: Wireless | 2021-04-08 04:30 | ????0? | |
| In its latest “un-carrier” event, T-Mobile made a big deal about its rural coverage for 5G. What it didn’t highlight so much: T-Mobile and Sprint made commitments to the FCC to cover 97% of the U.S. population with 5G within three years of their deal’s close, which happened a year ago. They were specifically committed to build out 5G to rural communities, which so happens to be where the carriers historically didn’t have decent coverage with earlier generations of wireless.Sievert said more than 30 million homes are eligible today, or almost one in five American households, making T-Mobile one of America’s largest ISPs by service area. Some 10 million of these homes are in small towns or rural areas. Verizon, which several years ago flagged 30 million households as its goal for fixed wireless access (FWA), won’t reach that for at least two more years, he noted.It’s taking on the cable duopoly, saying there’s “no waiting for the cable guy.” T-Mobile will ship a wireless router to a customer’s home and charge $60 a month, with router included. Customer service reps can help with installations if needed; T-Mobile also announced a new program with Hometown Experts, who will be available in some 2,500 towns to help with service too.But it would be difficult to open a store in every town, so T-Mobile is creating what it calls a new model to disrupt the status quo, he said. It’s called Hometown Experts – there are no storefronts involved, so T-Mobile doesn’t have that expense. Instead, the Hometown Experts will act as official T-Mobile representatives, like a one-person store but without the physical building, explained Freier. They can help customers get connected with Home Internet and other needs. T-Mobile said it plans to hire and train 2,500 Hometown Experts in 2,500 small towns over the next two years.There have been other shots at its “un-carrier” positioning as well since the merger with Sprint. Faced with an unexpected shutoff of Sprint’s CDMA network by January 1, 2022, Dish Network wasted no time in accusing T-Mobile of losing its “un-carrier” ways. Dish has suggested that T-Mobile’s moves are downright anti-competitive, in that if Dish/Boost doesn’t have access to the CDMA network, a lot of those customers will land in the hands of T-Mobile or be left without any service at all. -- ???????? | |||
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