Sprint spent $1.1 billion on its network in the third quarter of 2019, the seventh straight quarter the operator has invested 10-figures, according to President and CEO Michael Combes. And that will continue, he said in a Jan. 27 message from management, with plans to continue installing massive MIMO radios, which Sprint is using in conjunction with its 2.5 GHz spectrum for both LTE and 5G.
Following this dual-connect principal, where portions of a 64 T, 64 R massive MIMO radio are allocated to both LTE and 5G, Sprint in 2019 built out commercial 5G networks in portions of nine major markets–Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New York City, Phoenix and Washington D.C.
