T-Mobile 5G home internet reaches 5 million new addresses in the middle of the country

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T-Mobile's home internet service is now available in more cities, including Colorado, Oklahoma, Missouri, Iowa, and Kansas. Earlier this spring, the company said it had signed up its one millionth customer. T-Mobile has some work to do if it wants to reach its goal of 7 to 8 million customers by the year 2025.

Providing fixed wireless internet to a broad portion of the nation was one of the selling points of T-Mobile's case to the FCC. We would lose one of our four wireless carriers temporarily while T-Mobile and Dish Network got their 5G service up and running. At the same time, we would be getting a home internet service provider, as T-Mobile would use some of the spectrum from the other company. What is that doing? It wasn't great.

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It doesn't look promising in its early stages. Signing up another 6 million customers in two and a half years is starting to lookambitious when it takes a year to get to the first million.

T-Mobile pitched to the FCC that it could offer high-speed internet to rural areas. A third of the 40 million-plus homes it covers are in rural America, and some of the towns listed in today's announcement seem to fit the bill. Denver, Colorado, Des Moines, Iowa, and St. Louis, Missouri are some of the less rural places now covered. T-Mobile needs subscribers from all parts of the country in order to reach its goal of 8 million customers in a few years.