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T-Mobile US Debuts Indoor FWA Router from Inseego

T-Mobile US and equipment vendor
Inseego joined forces on a fixed
wireless access (FWA) router
designed to support standalone (SA)
5G network slicing and 5G-Advanced,
providing business customers with
faster speeds and improved Wi-Fi
coverage.

The Inseego Wavemaker 5G
cellular router FX4100 and Inseego
Wavemaker mesh Wi-Fi X700 are
designed exclusively for T-Mobile for
Business customers. Ryan Sullivan,
SVP of carrier product management
for Inseego, told Mobile World Live
(MWL) his company spent the last
year developing the third-generation
indoor FWA router for T-Mobile.
aggregate a low channel or a low- Harmon explained the router also has
Steve Harmon, CCO at Inseego, band uplink carrier with a mid-band an on-screen display window that
added T-Mobile for Business has or a high-band uplink carrier”, he said, allows customers to run speed tests,
exclusive rights to the router through to provide better performance across see alerts or gather information on
the end of the current year. a broader area of coverage. how to install the device correctly.

T-Mobile announced its 5G-Advanced The vendor stated the carrier “If they did end up on a phone
network was deployed nationwide aggregation makes video calls run call with a customer care team at
during its Q1 earnings call. The FX4100 smoother. It also eliminates the need T-Mobile, that representative is able to
router is Inseego’s first 5G-Advanced for bonding two routers together, toggle this screen and capture some
device. which makes it more affordable for information to help them deploy it
customers and more efficient on a correctly,” he said.
The operator is offering network network.
slices on its T-Priority service for first The router also comes equipped
responders, but it did not say if it is “It also comes with Wi-Fi mesh nodes,” with 5G uplink MIMO technology to
using Inseego’s router. Harmon said. “You have the router support both Time Division Duplex
itself, and then you can attach up (TDD) and Frequency Division Duplex
Inseego claims the router provides to three mesh nodes to that device (FDD) bands, which Inseego stated
improved 5G speeds on the downlink to take that Wi-Fi 7 capability and improves data transmission and
using three-carrier aggregation and expand it across a large footprint.” spectrum efficiency.
two-carrier aggregation for the uplink.
Customers can control the mesh The Inseego Wavemaker FX4100 is
Sullivan stated the uplink features not nodes using the vendor’s Inseego powered by Qualcomm Dragonwing
only improve performance but also Connect mobile device management FWA Gen 3 Platform. In addition to SA
increase capacity at the cell site level. platform and the Inseego Mobile App 5G, it supports NSA modes as well as
In addition, they extend the reach of to govern devices remotely. 4G LTE Cat 20 for connectivity across
a cell site “because you’re able to a range of bands.

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