{"id":16003,"date":"2012-06-26T11:47:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T16:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/?p=16003"},"modified":"2024-01-15T06:31:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T12:31:25","slug":"t-mobile-signs-agreement-with-verizon-wireless-promises-better-coverage-and-lte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2012\/06\/t-mobile-signs-agreement-with-verizon-wireless-promises-better-coverage-and-lte\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile Signs Agreement with Verizon Wireless; Promises better coverage and LTE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Big news from the Magenta carrier, yesterday T-Mobile announced that it has signed a deal with Verizon wireless that would effectively bring additional 60 million people. Some of the more notable pieces of the agreement include opening up the 1900MHz band to T-Mobile customers and the deployment of LTE sometime next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The additional spectrum will no doubt improve coverage for existing customers and a much wider LTE deployment can only help the 4th-place carrier win over some new subscribers.  When asked if this was a done deal, a T-Mobile spokesperson said, “The agreement is composed of a series of spectrum exchanges and license swaps which require FCC approval.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hopefully in the next couple of months we’ll be hearing that the best priced national carrier will be covering even more people and will be ready to take on our demands for even faster mobile data consumption. Hit the box below for the full press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Press Release<\/summary>\n

T-Mobile Signs Spectrum Agreement With Verizon Wireless<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

T-Mobile to Improve Portfolio of Nationwide Broadband Spectrum Following Regulatory Approval; Net Gain of Spectrum Will Assist Rollout of LTE in 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bellevue, Wash. \u2014 Jun. 25, 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, T-Mobile USA, Inc. announced an agreement with Verizon Wireless for the purchase and exchange of certain Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) spectrum licenses in 218 markets across the U.S.  The transaction will improve T-Mobile\u2019s spectrum position in 15 of the top 25 markets in the U.S. by providing an opportunity for T-Mobile both to acquire additional AWS spectrum and to realign its existing spectrum holdings.  Following regulatory approval, this spectrum can be promptly deployed to enhance the company\u2019s 4G mobile broadband service, including the rollout of LTE service next year. Some of the spectrum T-Mobile is acquiring in this transaction include licenses that Verizon is purchasing from SpectrumCo, Cox and Leap, and the agreement is contingent on the closing of those transactions and is subject to regulatory approval by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis agreement will provide T-Mobile with critical AWS spectrum, enhancing both network capacity and performance and allowing us to meet the growing consumer demand for 4G mobile broadband,\u201d T-Mobile CEO and President Philipp Humm said. \u201cThis is good for T-Mobile and good for consumers because it will enable T-Mobile to compete even more vigorously with other wireless carriers. We anticipate FCC approval later this summer, in time for us to incorporate this new spectrum into our network modernization and the rollout of LTE services next year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

T-Mobile will gain spectrum covering 60 million people \u2014 notably in Philadelphia; Washington, D.C.; Detroit; Minneapolis; Seattle; Cleveland; Columbus, Ohio; Milwaukee; Charlotte, N.C.; Raleigh-Durham, N.C.; Greensboro, N.C.; Memphis, Tenn.; and Rochester, N.Y. \u2014 in exchange for spectrum covering 22 million people and certain cash consideration. The agreement also includes exchanges in a number of markets in which the companies will swap licenses to create more contiguous blocks of spectrum and re-align spectrum in adjacent markets. These intra-market swaps will enhance T Mobile\u2019s network performance and data throughput in key locations. This agreement is in addition to T-Mobile\u2019s previously announced $4 billion 4G network evolution plan, which includes modernization of 37,000 cell sites, launching 4G HSPA+ services in the 1900 MHz band and deployment of LTE in 2013.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

T-Mobile levels up! Deal with Verizon unlocks 60M customers, boosts coverage & preps for LTE. Faster data, wider reach await!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":16010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[738],"tags":[52,51,2940,646,259,45,1837],"class_list":["post-16003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-4g","tag-lte","tag-spectrum","tag-spotlight","tag-t-mobile","tag-verizon","tag-verizon-wireless"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/vzwtmo.png?fit=606%2C346&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pelghY-4a7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16003"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23435,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16003\/revisions\/23435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}