Bellevue, Washington, March 22, 2019: US carrier T-Mobile has started piloting home Internet service, sending invites to a limited group of T-Mobile customers in rural and underserved markets for high-speed fixed wireless service.
This is part of the “Un-carrier’s effort to give Americans choice and competition for home broadband – and save consumers billions – with the New T-Mobile.”
According to a press release, the T-Mobile Home Internet pilot is offered exclusively in areas where it expects to deliver speeds of around 50 Mbps through fixed unlimited wireless service over LTE – with no data caps.
At $50 per month with AutoPay, and because it’s from T-Mobile, there are no annual service contracts, no hidden fees and no equipment costs. Setting up the in-home router is simple, and pilot customers get support from a dedicated team of real people – from the company.
Due to LTE network and spectrum capacity constraints, the T-Mobile Home Internet pilot is limited by invitation-only to existing customers in specific areas, with the goal of reaching 50,000 households by the end of the year – or slightly less than 0.04% of US households, said the company. But if T-Mobile’s pending merger with Sprint is approved, with the added scale and capacity of the New T-Mobile, the Un-carrier plans to cover more than half of US households with 5G broadband service – in excess of 100 Mbps – by 2024.
Almost half of American households have no competitive choice for high-speed in-home broadband with speeds of 100 Mbps, and in rural areas, more than three quarters have no high-speed broadband service or only one option available. This is the target marketing of T-Mobile.
The New T-Mobile will have the capability to cover more than half of US zip codes with un-wired and un-cabled in-home broadband by 2024 and will be able to support 9.5 million American households for its high-speed in-home broadband service.
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