AT&T continues to swiftly expand the availability of its low-band 5G network across the United States. The carrier today announced that customers in 137 new markets can now access low-band 5G on compatible devices.
As usual, there needs to be an explanation of what exactly this means because AT&T has complicated the 5G rollout beyond belief. Today’s expansion is of AT&T’s low-band 850MHz spectrum networking technology. It’s not mmWave 5G, which is ultra high-band frequencies, but it is a step up from the so-called 5G E network that AT&T has been pushing in many areas.
mmWave 5G offers ultra-fast speeds in dense urban areas, while sub-6 GHz 5G is slower in terms of performance, but with far better signal. AT&T’s 5G network offers an average speed of 133Mbps, according to Ookla Speedtest Intelligence cited by PCMag, but this includes some results from the mmWave network as well.
With today’s expansion to 137 new markets, AT&T’s low-band 5G network is now available in a total of 327 markets in the U.S. AT&T’s mmWave 5G+ network is available in “parts of 35 cities.”
Apple is expected to bring support for 5G, including this 850MHz spectrum, to the iPhone lineup later this fall with the launch of the iPhone 12 series. The next iPad Pro revision is also expected to bring support for both versions of 5G as well.
You can find the full list of today’s AT&T 5G rollout below.
Alabama
- Anniston
- Dothan
- Florence
- Gadsden
- Mobile
- Tuscaloosa
Alaska
- Anchorage
Arkansas
- Clay County
- Cleburne County
- Cross County
- Franklin County
- Madison County
- Pope County
California
- Alpine County
- Fresno
- Kings County
- Salinas
- Sierra County
- Stockton
- Visalia-Tulare
Colorado
- Fort Collins-Loveland
- Greeley
Florida
- Calhoun County
- Citrus County
- Collier County
- Fort Myers
- Fort Walton Beach
- Gainesville
- Glades County
- Jefferson County
- Lakeland
- Tallahassee
- Walton County
Georgia
- Atlanta
- Bleckley County
- Early County
- Jasper County
- Warren County
Idaho
- Elmore County
Illinois
- Adams County
- Aurora-Elgin
- Bureau County
- Champaign-Urbana
- Clay County
- Joliet
- Montgomery County
- Springfield
- Vermilion County
Indiana
- Bloomington
- Decatur County
- Huntington County
- Kosciusko County
- Muncie
- Newton County
- Randolph County
- Warren County
Kansas
- Lawrence
Kentucky
- Spencer County
Louisiana
- Baton Rouge
- Caldwell Parish
- Claiborne Parish
- Iberville Parish
- Lafayette
- Monroe
- Morehouse Parish
- St. James Parish
- West Feliciana Parish
Maine
- Portland
Maryland
- Cumberland
- Hagerstown
- Kent County
Michigan
- Alger County
- Allegan County
- Benton Harbor
- Manistee County
- Muskegon
Mississippi
- Jackson
Missouri
- Moniteau County
Nevada
- Lander County
New Mexico
- Lincoln County
- San Juan County
New York
- Chautauqua County
- Elmira
- Jefferson County
- Poughkeepsie
North Carolina
- Anson County
- Hickory
Ohio
- Ashtabula County
- Columbiana County
- Lima
- Mansfield
- Williams County
- Youngstown
Oregon
- Lincoln County
- Medford
- The Dalles
Pennsylvania
- Altoona
- Bedford County
- Bradford County
- Huntingdon County
- Jefferson County
- Lawrence County
- Lebanon County
- Sharon
Rhode Island
- Newport County
South Carolina
- Anderson
- Calhoun County
- Laurens County
- Oconee County
Tennessee
- Chattanooga
- Fayette County
- Giles County
- Maury County
- Memphis
- Nashville
Texas
- Amarillo
- Brownsville
- Bryan-College Station
- Galveston
- Killeen-Temple
- Parmer County
- Runnels County
- Tyler
Utah
- Beaver County
Virginia
- Caroline County
- Danville
Washington
- Okanogan County
- Olympia
- Pacific County
West Virginia
- Charleston
- Grant County
- Huntington-Ashland
- Tucker County
Wisconsin
- Kenosha
- Racine
- Sheboygan
- Wood County
