T-Mobile CEO Slams AT&T, Verizon in His 5G Predictions for 2019
Next year will be the year for 5G, blogged T-Mobile CEO John Legere Thursday. “We’ll see real, live 5G,” Legere predicted. “Not the 5G Verizon and AT&T are touting, but real, mobile, standards-based 5G. And T-Mobile will continue to be…
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the only company with a real plan for nationwide 5G.” If T-Mobile’s buy of Sprint is approved “the New T-Mobile will bring 5G to everyone, everywhere,” he said. Verizon, meanwhile, refuses to publish a 5G coverage map, Legere said. “I predict media will use the words ‘AT&T’ and ‘5G’ and ‘BS’ at least a dozen times in the same sentence in 2019,” he said. “AT&T is trying to pull some straight up BS -- showing a '5G’-ish indicator on the phone when it’s on LTE.” AT&T and Verizon didn’t comment.