I agree but I've seen furious attacks on T-Mobile because someone couldn't get service in a gym in the basement of an office building when their previous carrier worked there. The company probably had some corporate deal with the other carrier (executives tend to use the high priced brands) to install DAS or microcells in the office building as part of a corporate account. Thus service in the basement of a concrete high rise building. The customer expected all carriers would have the same coverage, just less expensive. It don't necessarily work that way. T-Mobile is getting better every day but it's still 4X as hard to cover territory with PCS/AWS than with sub-1GHz spectrum. It's harder to provide broadband service in rural areas when you don't own the backhaul. These are the realities.
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