

In fact, some reports suggested that customers were better off disabling 5G on their smartphones entirely and just staying on their carrier’s 4G/LTE service. The result was that neither carrier was able to deliver nationwide 5G speeds that were noticeably better than 4G. Previously, both AT&T and Verizon were limited to lower-frequency spectrum that shared space with their 4G/LTE networks using a technology known as Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS).

by allowing the carriers to deliver true 5G speeds to their customers. The rollout of the new C-band spectrum promises to fix what has become quite a mess in the 5G landscape in the U.S. Meanwhile, AT&T has taken a more conservative approach, rolling out its new C-band spectrum in only seven cities: Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, and Austin in Texas Jacksonville, Orlando, and Miami in Florida and Chicago and Detroit.
