So we simply completed screening T-Mobile’s 5G network in New York.
How was it?
Well, a 5G network on the first day, there’s a great deal of excellent and a lot that still requires to be dealt with.
Download speeds are wonderful, getting in between 300 and 600 megabits per second.
Not as quickly as what we saw on AT&T and Verizon’s millimeter wave networks.
But much faster than T-Mobile’s 4G LTE network, which we were likewise evaluating today on the Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus.
As for what requires to be enhanced, protection, for one.
T-Mobile, like AT&T and Verizon, is utilizing millimeter wave for its very first 5G release.
While this offers fantastic speeds, it likewise suggests that if you’re not near.
The 5G node that’s on top of the structure, you most likely are not gonna get 5G.
The signal is really minimal.
If there’s a tree in the method, or if you stroll into a structure, you’re basically out of luck.
We had that when we entered to purchase some water from a coffee bar.
And we strolled a couple of actions in and we were turned off of 5G to 4G LTE, strolled back outdoors, we got 5G quite rapidly.
But still, going inside structures, Not something that millimeter wave is well geared up for today.
As for speeds themselves, they are excellent, much faster than 4G LTE on T-Mobile’s network, which by itself is quite excellent in New York, however they weren’t as quick as the millimeter wave networks that Verizon and AT&T are utilizing, a minimum of not yet.
Those networks are getting in between one gigabit per 2nd to, in AT’s case we’re getting 2 gigabits per second.
On T-Mobile we were getting in between 300 and 600 megabits per second.
So some speed enhancements to come there.
Couple of other things that we observed in our screening today is the heat has to do with 85 90 degree day in New York and millimeter waves due to the fact that it’s a high frequency innovation.
When we’re taxing the Galaxy S 10 downloading files or running speed tests fumes.
And as a preventive step, the phone will turn off of 5G and on to 4G LTE to avoid the phone from getting too hot and to keep the experience of the phone going.
So that’s something that we’re gonna need to remember, particularly as 5G gets presented to warmer locations and too the weather condition warms up here in New York.
Otherwise, once again, lots to like about 5G, particularly on the first day.
It’s quickly.
T-Mobile’s protection is really respectable for a millimeter-wave network.
Walking around downtown Manhattan, we really have protection in a great deal of various locations.
And it wasn’t simply restricted to a number of city blocks.
So props to them there.
But once again, still some things that require to be dealt with, still really early days.
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