>Soon thereafter I got a Motola Moto G (XT1540) and even in podunk mountain towns I get LTE connections with the same Tmobile service. Band 12 (700mhz) made a

>Soon thereafter I got a Motola Moto G (XT1540) and even in podunk mountain towns I get LTE connections with the same Tmobile service. Band 12 (700mhz) made a HUGE difference in rural coverage in areas it covers. Speaking of proprietary standards and stuf... Band 12 was held up in device support by AT&T (and some hw vendors) that claimed channel 51 television stations would interfere with their network without a new signaling standard and filtering. So they conveniently created a proprietary band 17 that cut off the lower-A block of spectrum that T-Mobile and other rural carriers owned. This had a filter in hardware so no devices supported Band 12 until early 2016. AT&T of course, helpfully said they'd move to band 12 now that things are resolved. Didn't want to look anti-competitive or anything....