Will this phone support T-Mobile's band 71?
The description says the phone will work with T-Mobile, but band 71, and band 12 (T-Mobile's other lte band) are not listed in the specs. null

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Will this phone support T-Mobile's band 71?
The description says the phone will work with T-Mobile, but band 71, and band 12 (T-Mobile's other lte band) are not listed in the specs. null

LouisDi · Accepted Answer

If the Motorola Rep that answered this question is actually correct no one with T-Mobile service should consider this phone. Lack of B71 is one thing, but no B12 makes this phone useless on TMO other than in the heart of cities. Move even in to the suburbs and TMO coverage will be very poor. How does Motorola think releasing a GSM Only phone in the US, without B12, make any sense? This shouldn't be a Best Buy exclusive, it should be an AT&T exclusive as that network is the only one it will have decent coverage with. Insanity.

Answered by LouisDi 7 years ago

Jdub · Answer

This is pretty bad if there is no band 12 or 17. Those are bare minium for att and T-Mobile. I'm in Michigan and without band 12 there would be no LTE and therefore no service in the entire northern half of Michigan for TMobile. Not acceptable.

Answered by Jdub 7 years ago

RK00 · Answer

Cellular bands supported:
4G LTE (Cat4), UMTS / HSPA+, GSM / EDGE
2G: GSM band 2/3/5/8
3G: WCDMA band 1/2/4/5/8
4G: LTE band 1/2/3/4/5/7/8/28

Sidenote, this phone does not support CDMA, so therefore will NOT work on Sprint or Verizon in the US at the time of this answer, unless either of those two carriers drops CDMA as a phone requirement.

Motorola Customer Care · Answer

Hi stylejuggler,

No. The device doesn't support it as these are the bands that this phone support: 1, 2, 28, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8.

-Jess

“Will this phone support T-Mobile's band 71? The description says the phone will work with T-Mobile, but band 71, and band 12 (T-Mobile's other lte band) are not listed in the specs.”

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