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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – T-Mobile is rapidly ramping up plans for an aggressive rollout of 5G and wireless internet services across North Carolina. It’s already hiring additional help, including what the communications provider is calling “Hometown Experts” to help consumers and businesses get started with faster services than traditional 4G.
Efforts in North Carolina are part of a national plan unveiled on Wednesday, one that puts emphasis on smaller communities as T-Mobile and competitors AT&T as well as Verizon make 5G coverage much more readily available. It’s called #5GForAll.
“T-Mobile is investing in small town communities across the country as a part of the company’s initiative to provide #5GForAll. North Carolina is a priority for T-Mobile’s 5G network efforts,” a T-Mobile spokesperson tells WRAL TechWire. “T-Mobile is invested in bringing access to 5G network to rural areas across America, including North Carolina communities like Raleigh-Cary, Moreh
Moore County holds the top spot for âmicropolitanâ areas in North Carolina for the fourth consecutive year, according to the 2021 Economic Strength report published by Policom.
Instead of looking for boomtowns or the latest âhotspot,â Policom, a Florida-based consulting firm, measures 23 different economic factors that determine how an economy has behaved over an extended period of time.
Economic strength is evaluated on the basis of the areaâs long-term tendency to grow in both size and quality. By definition, a micropolitan area has an urban center of at least 10,000 but fewer than 50,000 people.
In the report issued in late January, data stretching from 2000 to 2019 (most current data available) placed the Pinehurst-Southern Pines micropolitan in the No. 1 slot for North Carolina and 53rd out of 543 micropolitan areas across the country. Statistical areas are ânamedâ after the largest city or cities in the area, but it is generally accepted th