T-Mobile Home Internet Review: A Wireless Carrier Might Be Your Next Internet Service Provider
If you live in the U.S., there's a good chance you connect to the internet in your home using a wired modem. That number is a majority 63 percent, according to a Statista Global Consumer Survey conducted in 2020 in the United States. The percentage may be high now, but it has a real possibility of changing in the coming years. As mobile networks become faster, without fluctuating broadband speeds, the opportunity to reach new and existing users without digging up roads to lay cables becomes enormous. T-Mobile is one of the carriers exploring providing wireless home internet service and has now begun deploying it more widely.
The breakthrough for consumers here are new home internet options beyond the typical one or two monopolistic providers. It's common that a location only has access to a single cable and DSL provider. It's difficult for a new provider to come in for several reasons, including the costs of physically deploying new cabling to every neighborhood. With wireless, however, network carriers have a chance to reach a majority of the country in an instant.
Instead of connecting to T-Mobile's cellular network with a mobile phone, you connect to it with a specialty modem and/or router that converts its 5G signal to Wi-Fi. That's the gist of T-Mobile's new home internet service. T-Mobile service becomes accessible to all internet devices in your home.
