T-Mobile said it plans to begin offering service through its 600 MHz spectrum next month.
The company revealed the news in its second quarter earnings statement. T-Mobile claims it will have 10 MHz of 600 MHz spectrum with LTE service blanketing 1.2 million square miles by the end of the year, with devices from LG and Samsung on deck to take advantage of the airwaves. T-Mobile says it plans to deploy 5G service on its 600 MHz spectrum holdings in the 2019/2020 timeframe.
T-Mobile claims its 700 MHz deployment is essentially complete, with some 575 markets live around the country. T-Mobile’s LTE network covers a total of 315 million people, and the Uncarrier will push coverage to 321 million across its various spectrum bands by the end of the year.
The company is on target to open 3,000 stores this year, with 1,500 T-Mobile-branded locations and another 1,500 MetroPCS-branded locations. T-Mobile will have 17,000 points-of-sale available throughout the country by the end of the year.
During the second quarter, T-Mobile added 786,000 phone subscribers who pay a monthly bill in the second quarter ended June 30, up from 646,000 in the year-ago period. Analysts had expected net additions of 607,000.
Churn, or customer defections, was 1.1 percent, a record low.
The company recorded revenues of $10.2 billion with net income of $581 million.
