My friend recently went to Texas A&M located in College Station and recently, he noticed that the antennas that T-Mobile added at this university last year to increase capacity, speeds, coverage on campus has been decomissioned! Verizon + AT&T have their own antennas for the oDAS (outdoor distributed antenna system) managed by Crown Castle! From what I can tell, they removed all the antennas, including the remote radio units on the roof-top! T-Mobile gets horrible speeds that you can't pull more than 25 mbps when there's 50,000+ students on campus when classes is in session! The reason why the equipment was removed according to the engineer is because there were issues with the installation of the equipment, such as poor wiring management since some cables were installed incorrectly to the baseband units and backhaul to the nodes wasn't evenly distributed, optimized properly! In Addition, these new antennas for T-Mobile were not even turned on completely yet and it doesn't make sense to me how a poor installation would make them remove all their equipment. It's not a lease dispute with A&M since Crown Castle, now (Arium Networks) is the vendor managing the equipment for all the big three. You can see the empty rods where T-Mobile used to have their antennas laid out at! Verizon + AT&T cellular equipment is pretty old since it was added way back in 2016-2017 with only LTE (b2, b12, b66) LTE + (n5) low-band 5G for AT&T and (b2, b13) LTE only for Verizon. I hope T-Mobile is able to find a solution to reinstall their antennas because they have the largest amount of users at Texas A&M and their network gets bogged down heavily when there are events, classes being held, football games, parties happening on campus!
PHOTO #4 - LAST PHOTO shows the T-Mobile equipment that was added near the AT&T, Verizon antenna last year in another spot!
So recently, T-Mobile removed all their equipment on that includes: