{"id":59437,"date":"2020-07-08T19:27:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T11:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/t-mobile-expands-home-internet-pilot-promises-rural-broadband-gains\/"},"modified":"2020-07-08T19:27:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T11:27:57","slug":"t-mobile-expands-home-internet-pilot-promises-rural-broadband-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/t-mobile-expands-home-internet-pilot-promises-rural-broadband-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile Expands Home Internet Pilot, Promises Rural Broadband Gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>T-Mobile<\/strong> has opened up its T-Mobile Home Internet pilot to residents of three Michigan counties, in a move that aims to put other Internet Service Providers (ISPs) on notice. The service expects to deliver average download speeds around 50 Mbps for $50 per month with no hardware rental or data caps.<\/p>\n<p>The service launched last year as an invite-only pilot for select T-Mobile customer households, and as of Wednesday is now open to Michigan counties Kent, Muskegon, and Ottawa. T-Mobile said its pilot customers rated the service with an average Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 64, compared to -74 for their previous provider.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHome broadband is one of the most uncompetitive and hated industries in America. Rural areas, in particular, lack options \u2026 and when there\u2019s no choice, customers suffer. It\u2019s no wonder Internet Service Providers and cable and satellite TV companies have the lowest customer satisfaction ratings out of 46 industries according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index,\u201d T-Mobile\u2019s news release read.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pilot provides home broadband on T-Mobile\u2019s LTE network. The company said that with additional capacity from its merger with <b>Sprint<\/b>, T-Mobile is preparing to launch 5G home internet commercially nationwide, to cover more than 50% of U.S. households within six years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s not an industry that fits the \u2018never compete\u2019 definition better than cable and telco ISPs,\u201d CEO Mike Sievert said. \u201cThree months into our merger with Sprint, we\u2019re just at the very, very beginning of seeing the incredible benefits of our combined network but the early signs are extremely promising \u2014 particularly in rural America \u2014 not just for traditional wireless service but also for home broadband.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T-Mobile has opened up its T-Mobile Home Internet pilot to residents of three Michigan counties, in a move that aims to put other Internet Service Providers (ISPs) on notice. The service expects to deliver average download speeds around 50 Mbps for $50 per month with no hardware rental or data caps. The service launched last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}