Texas Border Business
Customers in El Paso will now have access to additional bandwidth from Verizon, which will result in the following:
- Increasing availability of 5G Ultra Wideband service,
- Creating more capacity to accommodate more customers and more robust services for customers,
- opening up significant new markets to our home and business broadband solutions, and
- providing better performance and faster speeds.
El Paso residents and visitors will now be able to use a full 160 MHz of spectrum, nearly doubling the 5G bandwidth available to serve customers.
Verizon has access to this spectrum four months ahead of schedule. Early access to the remainder of the C-band spectrum puts us another four months ahead of schedule from our original projections and will greatly impact our network’s performance.
Verizon’s C-band holdings
Verizon won C-Band licenses for between 140-200 MHz in all available markets, and began deploying 60 MHz in the first 46 areas in 2022. As the additional spectrum has been cleared by satellite companies outside of the first 46 areas, Verizon has been able to deploy 5G Ultra Wideband using a portion of its licensed bandwidth in many more markets coast to coast. Now, with final clearance from the satellite incumbents, Verizon will be able to use the entirety of its licensed C-band spectrum, an average of 161 MHz coast to coast with some markets accessing a full 200 MHz. Verizon has been deploying equipment that is capable of the full 200MHz of bandwidth, so with a mere software update, customers will start to see the effects of this dramatic increase in bandwidth in the immediate next few days and weeks.
Specifically, Verizon now has access to:
- A minimum 140 megahertz of total spectrum in the contiguous United States and an average of 161 megahertz nationwide; that’s bandwidth in every available market, 406 markets in all.
- Up to 200 megahertz in 158 mostly rural markets covering nearly 40 million people. This will further enhance Verizon’s broadband solution portfolio for rural America.
More service in more places
Accelerated access to best-in-class spectrum holdings means greater capacity and faster speeds in major metro areas where Verizon’s network is already undefeated in 96.8% of the metro drive tests (121 out of 125 markets) performed by the most rigorous scientific testing company** in the first half of 2023. Additional spectrum also allows Verizon to continue expanding coverage of its 5G network, the most reliable in the US,*** introducing 5G Ultra Wideband service into even more rural and suburban areas.
