600 MHz launch dates listed below are preliminary and subject to change. See the third map for the planned areas of deployment.

On October 10th T-Mobile announced a partnership with Fox Television Stations to accelerate relocation of WWOR-TV in New York City by 16 months. This agreement and agreements with other stations will allow T-Mobile deploy 600 MHz in 2018 to 38 million people more in addition to 62 million who live in the areas already clear for deployment. See Q3 Investor Factbook . Neville Ray confirmed early deployment of 600 MHz network in Puerto Rico.

T-Mobile identified 1.2 million square miles where 600 MHz spectrum is available for deployment as of 2017.

Map of 10,000 sites where 600 MHz is planned to be deployed by the end of 2018

Map of cities and towns where 600 MHz is available as of September 2018 according to T-Mobile

11 TV stations that won reverse auction bids to go off air went off air by 10/25/2017. Out of

11 TV stations that won reverse auction bids to go off air went off air by 10/25/2017. Out of 132 stations that agreed to share a channel in exchange for cash 26 exited the business instead, 46 either started sharing or went silent by 1/23/2018 deadline while the remaining 60 were granted extensions to stay on their current channel till 4/23/2018.

To check intermediate status of stations use Form 387 Viewer at RabbitEars.info

Use the navigation above the map to see stations remaining after other phases.

The following map shows all stations remaining on channels 38-51 after phase 1. Use the navigation above the map to see stations remaining after other phases.

Use the navigation above the map to explore other phases. The schedule of the phases is as follows:

Relocation of other 935 US and 62 Canadian TV stations, also known as repacking, is organized into 10 phases. During the first phase that is scheduled to be finished by 11/30/2018 the stations shown below will be relocated to lower channels or rearranged within VHF and low UHF channels:

Relocation of other 935 US and 62 Canadian TV stations, also known as repacking, is organized into 10 phases. During the first phase that is scheduled to be finished by 11/30/2018 the stations shown below will be relocated to lower channels or rearranged within VHF and low UHF channels:

relocated earlier than planned and one station KPPX-TV convinced the FCC to remain on the current channel. 40 stations (see the table above), WFSG and KKAF-CD are relocating earlier than originally planned.

Compatible phones and tablets

since September 2014. Note that none of the corresponding unlocked models except the listed in the second section support band 71.

See LTE-Advanced features (carrier aggregation, 256-QAM, 4x4 MIMO) supported by these phones in a table:

The following devices recently passed FCC certification with band 71 support. Their names were guessed. They may be sold through one or more than one sales channels: T-Mobile, MetroPCS and unlocked in retail stores.

Band 71 plan

The band consists of 35 MHz of contiguous uplink spectrum between 663-698 MHz adjacent to the lower 700 MHz uplink and corresponding 35 MHz of downlink spectrum between 617-652 MHz. The band is logically broken down into seven 5+5 MHz blocks A through G. TV stations will remain on channels 36 and below. Channel 37 will continue to be used for radio astronomy and wireless medical devices. In addition, the remaining 14 MHz of unlicensed spectrum will be available for wireless microphones and new innovative uses.

Read the work item description document for details. In May 2017 3GPP either endorsed or approved proposed specification changes . Approval means the decision is final, endorsement means the change is technically correct but there are may be other solutions. The only change not endorsed at that time was a change of 25.466 UTRAN specification which was not critical. T-Mobile initiated the work on the 600 MHz band specification in February 2017. The new band was proposed to be assigned the next available FDD band number 71. T-Mobile estimated the specification would be ready for approval in September 2017.





On 9/4/2017 3GPP released version 1.0 of Technical Report 36.755 "US 600 MHz Band for LTE" and 14 Change Requests to existing specifications. Everything was approved two weeks later and has been incorporated into LTE release 15.





As of October 2017 Qualcomm, Mediatek and Skyworks are working on the following carrier aggregation configurations involving LTE band 71:

2+71

4+71

66+71

2+2+71

2+4+71

4+4+71

2+66+71

66+66+71

Dual Connectivity (DC) configuration 71+n71 that will allow aggregation of LTE and NR carriers broadcast by two basestations in band 71. n71 is an NR FDD band in the same frequency range as LTE band 71. In October 2017, T-Mobile and Ericsson started working onconfiguration 71+n71 that will allow aggregation of LTE andcarriers broadcast by two basestations in band 71. n71 is an NR FDD band in the same frequency range as LTE band 71.





On December 20th, 2017, 3GPP released the first set of 5G NR specifications that include n71 band, DC 66+n71, DC 66+n257, DC 71+n71, and CA n71+n257 configurations.





As of January 2018 T-Mobile, Samsung and Ericsson are working on the following NR carrier aggregation combinations covering most T-Mobile's spectrum holdings except 700 and 850 MHz:

n2+n71, n2+n257, n2+n260

n66+n71, n66+n257, n66+n260

n71+n257, n71+n260

n257 intra-band, n260 intra-band

n257 is an NR TDD band covering 27.5- 28.35 MHz range in the US. n260 is an NR TDD band covering 38.6-40 GHz range in the US.





As of May 2018 the following Dual Connectivity LTE+NR configurations with NR band 71 are either complete or in the works:

71+n71

66+n71

2+n71

2+66+n71