T-Mobile announced today its plans for launching a true nationwide LTE beginning in 2019, with a complete rollout by 2020.

While the news is light on details when it comes to what technologies the carrier will be employing for its 5G network (especially given that there is still no formal 5G standard, despite carriers’ eagerness to announce 5G news), T-Mobile does make a point that it will be using its recently acquired (to the tune of $8 billion) 600 MHz spectrum for its 5G network.

T-Mobile notes that this is in contrast to other competitors, which it claims are focusing on short-range, high-frequency millimeter wave technologies for their 5G networks, in contrast to the longer-range and…

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