T-Mobile Says 70, 80 GHz Bands Are Critical to Backhaul
T-Mobile officials met with FCC Wireless Bureau staff on antenna standard rules for the 70 and 80 GHz bands. “Since the conclusion of the incentive auction, T-Mobile has been rapidly expanding and strengthening its LTE network and laying the groundwork…
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for a nationwide 5G network using its 600 MHz spectrum,” T-Mobile said in a filing in docket 10-153. “Critical to the success of these efforts is access to gigabit backhaul.” T-Mobile said it has found that the bands, with their light licensing approach and 10 GHz of available spectrum, are “ideally suited to providing rapid access to these essential links which will provide high speed connections between access points and T-Mobile’s core network.”