T-Mobile 5G map update lets you check if your network is fast or lame

I also recommend checking out my colleagueEli Blumenthal’s helpful decoding of 5G marketing terms.

That uses low frequency radio spectrum that’s better at traveling long distances and penetrating the walls of buildings.

The company this week boasted itsmidband “ultra capacity” service now reaches 165 million peoplein the United States.

T-Mobile didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.PCMag spottedthe coverage map change this week.

T-Mobile’s rivals should become more competitive as they put new midband radio spectrum to work later this year.

AT&T and Verizon bought rights to use it in the Federal Communications Commission auction of C-band airwaves.

Verizon and AT&T have their own terms to differentiate between fast shorter-range service and slower long-range service.

Verizon calls its low-range “5G nationwide” and its midrange and mmWave “ultra wideband.”