How Sprint Customers Can Connect To T-Mobile’s Network
After many years of snafus, negotiations, and contracts, Sprint and T-Mobile are finally merged! This is a good thing for Sprint because their coverage lacks, but many people aren’t so sure if it will be great for the industry and consumers. Less competition often leads to best prices of goods and services. So now t mobile deals for existing customers as a whole? And how soon will consumers benefit (or not) from this giant merger? Sooner than you might think.
For the new T-Mobile to keep customers happy and make good on these large capacity and speed promises, they’re going to need to make it as easy as possible for current customers to get the most bang for their buck, or risk losing them to competitors.
Here’s a quick history of the merger
After a few years, and few failed attempts at merging, in April of 2020 T-Mobile officially acquired Sprint. Part of this merger requires Sprint to sell Boost mobile, (Sprint’s prepaid cellular service) along with their 800MHz spectrum to Dish, and requires T-Mobile to share its network with Dish for 7 years while Dish builds up their own network to become the fourth major carrier in America.
With Sprint’s 800MHz spectrum, along with other mobile radio waves they’ve been buying up over time, this will hopefully allow Dish to create a 5G network building some healthy competition in the mobile world within the upcoming decade.
T-Mobile best 5G coverage
T-Mobile also promises by 2026 their 5G network will be available to 99% of Americans. And they’re also promising their network will be 15x times faster than it is now. According to Open Signal who tests dozens of aspects of cell phone carrier service, and has looked at 5-billion user sessions found the average T-Mobile download speed is about 26Mbps.
Multiply that by 15 and T-Mobile would be pushing nearly 400Mbps speeds! Honestly 400Mbps seems like overkill for a mobile phone, but when that becomes reality, i’ll want to experience it.
This is just a guess, but i imagine the new T-Mobile will offer Sprint customers killer deals for upgrading their cell phones. Why? Because if your phone is too old, it won’t work on BOTH networks because Sprint’s network is CDMA where T-Mobile’s is GSM these are two different types of technology and older phones don’t have the sophistication to work on both.
At this moment, there are only a handful of phones that work with T-Mobile/Sprint and can access 5G. But in a few years, that list is very likely going to grow.
Final verdict
By 2026 T-Mobile promises 14x the network capacity it has now. What does that mean? Well one thing a larger capacity allows is less people experiencing de-prioritized data. Like adding more lanes of traffic to a freeway, more capacity will allow for a better mobile experience with less congestion.