T-Mobile today added its network to the Competitive Carriers Association’s LTE data roaming hub. The move gives CCA members and their customers access to T-Mobile’s LTE 4G network for data roaming purposes.
The Hub, which launched several years ago, is a collection of roaming agreements between small, rural carriers and large, national ones, such as Sprint and T-Mobile. The purpose of the Hub is to give larger carriers access to the rural networks of regional carriers, and give those regional carriers access to the metropolitan LTE 4G networks of larger carriers.
T-Mobile has participated in the hub from a management perspective for some time, but had not yet contributed access to its own network. T-Mobile’s network is strong in urban centers, but the carrier lacks the rural coverage available from other competitors.
