What is C-Band? Here's what a new 5G flavor means for AT&T and Verizon
From Bill Horne@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 30 22:16:45 2022
Story Highlights
* * Reddit users have been posting C-Band speed tests showing
downloads of 400 Mbps to 800 Mbps.
* * Rural users may, however, still find themselves in a low-band 5G
slow lane.
* * AT&T supports C-Band on the same phones as Verizon, plus Google’s
Pixel 6 series.
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The mid-band frequencies those carriers lit up Jan. 19, with
downloads of multiple hundreds of megabits per second, help fill a
gap between millimeter-wave 5G with exceptionally fast speeds in
exceptionally few places and low-band 5G that reached far wider but
didn’t run much faster than 4G.