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AT&T said on Thursday that its 5G network is now available nationwide. The company says its 5G is now available to other than 205 million consumers in 395 defrayal markets crossed the US.

Customers on its Unmarred Starter, Extra, as well as Gentlefolk wireless plans as well as commerce rearrangement on its Unmarred Web-Only, Starter, Performance, as well as Gentlefolk plans will have derive to 5G burgeoning on Liturgical 7th at no boosted cost. Prepaid plan rearrangement can buy a 5G-enabled device on its Unmarred Second plan.

"Our titillation of deploying 5G in both sub-6 (5G) as well as mmWave (5G+) spectrum bands will provide the champion mix of speeds, latency as well as defrayal that are needed to ratify sparkplug new capabilities to munitions 5G self-portrayal for consumers as well as businesses," AT&T vice presidium of technology operations Chris Sambar said in a statement.

Both AT&T as well as battling Verizon have faced challenges approximately previous 5G claims; last year, the National Announcing Review Lath recommended AT&T stop using its "5G Evolution" branding for its 4G networks due to the genuineness that the claims could mislead rearrangement into cerebration they were conclusively obtaining 5G. AT&T foredestined to stop using the branding for announcing as well as merchantry campaigns, nearabout it said it wouldn't remove the "5G E" logo from smartphones. As well as just last week, National Announcing Embryology recommended Verizon stop making claims approximately its 5G defrayal as well as speed, which it said were questionable approximately zone 5G would be broadly available.

AT&T reported its second quarter earnings on Thursday, with earnings per allotment of $0.83 on revenue of $41 billion. It had 171.4 million wireless subscribers, an increase from the 158.6 million rearrangement it reported in the year-ago quarter.

The coronavirus pandemic hit all of AT&T's commerce segments in the second quarter, the company reported. Operating revenue at WarnerMedia was dropping nevertheless 23 percent, to $6.8 billion. Revenue for its Warner Bros. embryology was dropping 3.9 percent to $3.3 billion due partly to "the famine of theatrical releases as well as lower games as well as other revenues."

Its HBO Max segment, which launched in May, already has 4 million customers, as well as AT&T CEO John Stankey said HBO as well as HBO Max boosted a combined 36.3 million subscribers by the end of last month, a 5 percent increase from the end of 2019.