T-Mobile‘s intricate 5G rollout strategy has a lot of different moving parts, but while the “Un-carrier” is certainly not disregarding the mmWave and Dynamic Spectrum Sharing technologies Verizon has been largely focusing on for the first stages of its own 5G deployment, the nation’s second-largest wireless service provider is concentrating the bulk of its resources on low and mid-band spectrum for the time being.

Mid-band is key for both mobile and home internet expansions

In addition to setting its sights on achieving total domination in the mobile internet space fairly soon, T-Mo wants to make a big splash with its home broadband service too as soon as next year. 

Recently rolled out in the greater Grand Rapids area in Michigan as a relatively wide-scale commercial test run, the T-Mobile Home Internet offering is expected to “break the back of the 2.5 GHz spectrum in 2021.” The main goal is to provide “rural America” a reliable, affordable, and reasonably fast home broadband option, which is something that’s not very easily accessible at the moment in many non-urban areas.

Some 5G flavors are more important than others

In case you’re wondering, a 4G LTE-based T-Mobile Home Internet plan currently costs $50 a month with no annual service contracts or data caps, as well as all taxes and fees included, promising average download speeds of around 50 Mbps that will undeniably go up once mid-band 5G technology enters the equation.

Speaking of Big Red, though, we’d be remiss not to mention that the nation’s number one mobile network operator launched its own 5G Home Internet service all the way back in 2018, failing however to expand it to a lot of places in 2019 and 2020 or rack up a considerable number of customers (as far as we know).