T-Mobile reported continued customer growth in its first-quarter earnings call, adding a combined 1.3 million net customers across its phone and internet businesses.
The carrier reported 538,000 net phone additions, the metric used by the industry to denote success and dependable revenue. T-Mobile said its 5G network reaches 98% of Americans, and its higher-speed “Ultra Capacity” 5G network now covers 275 million people, and aims to hit 300 million by the end of the year.
It gets increasingly difficult to reach the last slices of the American population given geography constraints, said Ulf Ewaldsson, T-Mobile’s executive vice president of network. “I would say it’s about three times harder for every ten [thousand people] you add,” he said.
Ewaldsson noted that T-Mobile has 150 MHz of dedicated midband 5G spectrum, and as the carrier shifts more frequency from 4G LTE to 5G, it will end…
