{"id":38573,"date":"2020-07-06T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2637598"},"modified":"2020-07-06T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T15:43:00","slug":"t-mobile-shuts-down-sprints-5g-network-as-the-two-carriers-continue-to-integrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/06\/t-mobile-shuts-down-sprints-5g-network-as-the-two-carriers-continue-to-integrate\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile shuts down Sprint\u2019s 5G network as the two carriers continue to integrate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/span>Illustration by Alex Castro \/ The Verge<\/small><\/p>\n

T-Mobile has completely shut down Sprint’s 2.5GHz midband 5G network as the company continues its efforts to merge Sprint’s network with its own following the landmark merger of the two companies earlier this year, via Fierce Wireless<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The shutdown marks the end of a process T-Mobile began earlier this year when it started merging Sprint’s 5G spectrum holdings into its existing network, which began when T-Mobile shut down Sprint’s existing 5G deployment in New York and relaunched it as part of T-Mobile’s 5G network in April. T-Mobile also launched a new 2.5GHz 5G network in Philadelphia at that time, a city where Sprint had not yet offered 5G.<\/p>\n

T-Mobile also announced on Tuesday that Sprint’s networks in Chicago, Houston, and Los Angeles have already been reactivated as T-Mobile spectrum, too. Still yet to be redeployed are Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Kansas City, Phoenix, and Washington, DC, which previously had Sprint 5G networks.<\/p>\n

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