I have been having travel a little bit and I always like to monitor what bands my phone is currently connected to at that said place now while I know I never traveled to a 5G+mm wave city the only 5G I've connected to is only N5 or 5G at 850Mhz l. I know that AT&T has NR5, NR260 and the one I am questioning if Cricket Wireless customer even have access to is 5G NR 5 which is at PCS 1.9Ghz? I would really appreciated if someone on the community can confirm. Thank you.
Yes, Cricket does have access to NR B260 which is the mmw 5G+ and NR B5 which is the low-band nationwide 5G. I'm not sure if it's PCS 1.9ghz with NR B5 though. I know AT&T customers have access to NR B2 as well, but I don't know if Cricket customers get access to that as well.
Yea I was maybe thinking that nr2 is probably considered low-band 5G and we do have access to that band and maybe I was just unlucky.
So I need a cell phone repeater in my work truck. A lot of county roads with crap reception. For the life of me I cannot figure out the band with that cricket uses.
So I'm looking to buy the Blu R1HD (http://www.bluproducts.com/r1-hd/) and they state that "BLU R1 HD comes with 4G LTE bands 2(1900MHz), 4(1700 MHz), 7(2600 MHz), Band 12(700MHz), and 17(2100MHz)." From what I'm aware, the main LTE bands for AT&T (and I assume thereby cricket) are 17, 2, and 4.
My question is this, how accurate is the information I've gathered about at&t LTE bands being 17, 2, and 4? Also, does that mean the phone's a good fit since it has all of those specified bands? I would like a phone that can maximize LTE speeds.
Yes, that's a good phone for Cricket and one I've used before. You'll only be missing a few smaller bands that AT&T uses to supplement their service in dense areas as well as band 5 which doesn't have a lot of coverage. But yeah, 99% of the time, you'll be just fine with those bands though.
Those are the main AT&T bands (a device without 17 that has 12 will work fine since 12 and 17 are interoperable as far as AT&T is concerned…a 17-only device will not work on T-Mobile's 12 for example). AT&T has some 29 and 30 for added speed and capacity, and has been rolling out 5 in some places where older network technologies have been removed.
I've got an iPhone with everything but 30, and it's on 2, 4, or 17 all of the time. There may be areas where AT&T is building out 5 to cover better.
So, the tl;dr is that 2,4,17 should be fine in most areas.