The base stations need to be upgraded, but T-Mobile already has this in many areas—you just can’t use it until your phone can handle it. T-Mobile will be using the widest frequencies from each of the above swaths once the latest Sprint bands in the 2,000+ Mhz frequencies has been switched over. The latest 5G chips can, with the proper antennas, concurrently use all 5G bands in aggregation, but phones with that chipset won’t be available until late this year or early next year.
Carriers can much more efficiently reuse spectrum with 5G technology, making many more phone much faster with much less cost and bandwidth. 5G is a “win-win.”
No.
4G "LTE" already doesn't cover US 212 between Belle Fourche and Hardin, much less US 191 from Gallatin Gateway to Big Sky. Not to speak of a total lack of coverage in the National Forest but a few miles from a relatively large metro area that is 340 mi. from the three nearest largest cities. It's gonna be BS for me for a decade.
Then there is the whole issue of “Data Limits” on cellular accounts.
It seems that the cellular industry is not happy with supplying a data limit of similar size to that of my way old DSL theoretical throughput.
Their prices/allocations per GB/month have NOT dropped along any kind of Moore’s law:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law]
It’s total BS...