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Sprint is announcing the next phase of its 5G rollout, and at an event in New York this morning, it added some big cities to the list: New York City, Phoenix, and Washington, DC will launch today, August 27th, and Los Angeles will launch on August 28th, as the company promised back in February.
Those cities join the existing 5G coverage from Sprint in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, and Kansas City that the carrier rolled out earlier this year. With these additional cities, Sprint says it’ll have approximately 2,100 square miles of 5G coverage, which is a benefit of the longer-range but down-spectrum technology in the 2.5GHz range that Sprint is using for its initial 5G rollout.