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Where Can You Get T-Mobile's 5G Home Internet Service? Let's Go to the Map

T-Mobile's 5G home internet service is launching in 633 metro areas nationwide. See if yours is on the list.

 & Sascha Segan Former Lead Analyst, Mobile

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T-Mobile has released a list of cities and towns that will get its new 5G home internet service, so of course I made a map.

The Google map below comes from T-Mobile's PDF list of cities and towns that are scheduled to get the service first, an area that will initially cover 30 million homes. The list is based on metro areas, so some large, consolidated areas (such as "Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington," a tri-state metro region) are represented as one point so as not to crowd the map.

It's all approximate, anyway. Like with other services of this kind, T-Mobile isn't giving an exact coverage map, but at least it gave me a decent reason why not. T-Mobile is only selling the service based on available network capacity. In other words, if your neighborhood has the wireless network capacity to support 50 homes, and 100 try to sign up, half of those people will get a "not available" message. Sign-ups will also be limited because the company only has a certain number of the Nokia modems it uses for home gateways.

All the same, this map does give some initial guidelines. Both bigger metro areas and smaller towns are represented on the map; it's an open question how far outside the towns coverage will go, but remember that a location needs T-Mobile 5G coverage to be viable.

T-Mobile is selling the service for $60 per month, including taxes, fees, and a modem, without a contract. The company says that users should expect download speeds around 100Mbps, and it says it expects to have 7-8 million people signed up by 2025. Find out more at Tmobile.com/isp.

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Sascha Segan

Sascha Segan

Former Lead Analyst, Mobile

My Experience

I'm that 5G guy. I've actually been here for every "G." I reviewed well over a thousand products during 18 years working full-time at PCMag.com, including every generation of the iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy S. I also wrote a weekly newsletter, Fully Mobilized, where I obsessed about phones and networks.

My Areas of Expertise

  • US and Canadian mobile networks
  • Mobile phones released in the US
  • iPads, Android tablets, and ebook readers
  • Mobile hotspots
  • Big data features such as Fastest Mobile Networks and Best Work-From-Home Cities

The Technology I Use

Being cross-platform is critical for someone in my position. In the US, the mobile world is split pretty cleanly between iOS and Android. So I think it's really important to have Apple, Android and Windows devices all in my daily orbit.

I use a Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1 for work and a 2021 Apple MacBook Pro for personal use. My current phone is a Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra, although I'm probably going to move to an Android foldable. Most of my writing is either in Microsoft OneNote or a free notepad app called Notepad++. Number crunching, which I do often for those big data stories, is via Microsoft Excel, DataGrip for MySQL, and Tableau.

In terms of apps and cloud services, I use both Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive heavily, although I also have iCloud because of the three Macs and three iPads in our house. I subscribe to way too many streaming services. 

My primary tablet is a 12.9-inch, 2020-model Apple iPad Pro. When I want to read a book, I've got a 2018-model flat-front Amazon Kindle Paperwhite. My home smart speakers run Google Home, and I watch a TCL Roku TV. And Verizon Fios keeps me connected at home.

My first computer was an Atari 800 and my first cell phone was a Qualcomm Thin Phone. I still have very fond feelings about both of them.

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