By Alan Friedman

Remember when Verizon and AT&T spent over $68 billion during an FCC
auction last year of C-band licenses? These licenses covered mid-band frequencies in the range of 3.7GHz-3.98GHz giving the two carriers the
ability to fight back against T-Mobile. The latter picked up 2.5GHz
mid-band spectrum when it purchased Sprint for $26 billion and it was
helping T-Mobile become arguably the early 5G leader in the U.S.

While mid-band signals don't travel as far as low-band signals do,
they travel farther than mmWave. And while mid-band 5G signals aren't
as fast as mmW, they are 10 times faster than low-band 5G. So while
the odds of you finding a mmWave 5G signal running at 1Gbps is
prohibitive, you are much more likely to come across a mid-band signal delivering data at 400Mbps.

https://www.phonearena.com/news/airlines-want-changes-to-5g-c-band_id143051

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