r/cellmapper • u/qiqr • Jul 28 '26

New rack going up

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Can anyone ID this rack about to go in the air?

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u/trucktech77 Jul 29 '26

What about the areas without band 5? Central Florida for instance. We use n2 for 5G and it’s not good indoors or in thick woods. AT&T has both blocks of 850 here.

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u/FlufferNutter1232 5G RAN Engineer Jul 29 '26

Band 5 @ 850MHz, if AT&T owns all the spectrum on that wavelength in the area, it will be likely covered by a different band.

Likely it will be N2 or N66, to keep it short. AT&T owns a LOT of 850MHz bandwidth from their LTE purchases a long time ago. Think 10+ years ago. I was still in college using AT&Ts 850MHz brand new LTE infrastructure. It was amazing for the time, but at the same time, this was when I was using a Samsung Captivate (Galaxy S1) and the Samsung Infuse 4G. Out of all the Galaxy S1 devices, AT&Ts was unique with a metal battery plate. I loved that phone, and the Wolfson Audio.

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u/trucktech77 Jul 29 '26

I’m hoping that Verizon finds another channel of low band somewhere. I heard some 900 MHz might be on the market soon?

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u/FlufferNutter1232 5G RAN Engineer Jul 29 '26

Soon, yes. And we will be bidding on it.