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[Pete Erskine]

http://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/t-mobile-lights-up-first-600-mhz-site-wyoming

[Keith Broughton]

And so it begins....

[Henry Cohen]

http://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/t-mobile-lights-up-first-600-mhz-site-wyoming

And a list of those counties where T-Mobile will start testing beginning Nov 1, 2017 is now posted in the T-Mobile sticky topic.

[Jason Glass]

Thank you, Henry!

I was frustrated over the PSN article omitting the list and came here to look for it.

http://www.prosoundnetwork.com/how-sound/t-mobile-lights-up-first-600-mhz-site/47797

Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

[Riley Casey]

Just out of curiosity whats on the other end of these towers?  Who has 600 Mhz devices in their purses or dashboards that can talk to transmitters in a band that just went on line?  What do they expect the roll out timeline of devices that work in 600 Mhz to be know that its live in a single market?

[Henry Cohen]

Just out of curiosity whats on the other end of these towers?  Who has 600 Mhz devices in their purses or dashboards that can talk to transmitters in a band that just went on line?  What do they expect the roll out timeline of devices that work in 600 Mhz to be know that its live in a single market?

Before anyone can have a phone in their purse, there's a significant amount of infrastructure and propagation testing that takes place, so there will be significant downlink energy once that begins. As for the subscriber side of things during testing, it's a car or van driving around with test equipment, both receiving the downlink and transmitting on the uplink, mimicking a subscriber device.

But more to your point, T-Mobile has agreements with a couple of handset manufacturers (I've heard fifth hand Samsung and Kyrocera*) to have phones available for sale by the start of the 2017 holiday season. Happy Christ-kwanz-ukkah.

*Edited 8/18/2017: T-Mobile has apparently confirmed it's Samsung and LG.

[augie propersi]

Any word on NYC? my HME pro850s are in the 686 -- 698 range and I am in mid town 55th street and 7th ave should I start to worry?

[Scott Helmke]

Any word on NYC? my HME pro850s are in the 686 -- 698 range and I am in mid town 55th street and 7th ave should I start to worry?

My guess is probably not. It looks like T-Mobile is doing their initial work in rural areas, which makes sense since that's where the UHF would bring the most benefit. The cities are already pretty well covered with existing frequency bands.

[Henry Cohen]

Any word on NYC? my HME pro850s are in the 686 -- 698 range and I am in mid town 55th street and 7th ave should I start to worry?

According to sources, NYC won't begin testing until 2nd quarter 2018. Now's a good time to bring in demo gear and test its effectiveness and feature set so you can have new equipment in place and operational by the time T-Mobile sends out its notice.

[Scott Holtzman]

My guess is probably not. It looks like T-Mobile is doing their initial work in rural areas, which makes sense since that's where the UHF would bring the most benefit. The cities are already pretty well covered with existing frequency bands.

My guess is it's not a coverage issue but a capacity issue.   

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