From T-Mobile:

One of These 10 Small Towns is About to Win Big. Meet the T-Mobile Hometown Techover Finalists

From Guadalupe, Calif. in the West all the way to Wareham, Mass. in the East, these 10 small towns make the finals in T-Mobile’s Hometown Techover: a community-wide tech upgrade valued at more than $3 million

BELLEVUE, Wash.– It techs a village. This past April, T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) unveiled a contest to win a T-Mobile — a $3 million tech makeover for an American small town, including a $200,000 grant, 5G network enhancements, a Little League® baseball field refurbishment, a free concert featuring multi-platinum duo Florida Georgia Line … and so much more. The chosen town will become the 5G model for communities across the U.S., showcasing the power of the country’s largest, fastest and most reliable 5G network — T-Mobile’s. Thousands entered, and 10 extraordinary communities representing the heart of small-town America were selected as finalists:

“As the 5G leader, we’re committed to helping bridge the digital divide and getting rural America as well-connected as Big City USA. This three-million-dollar Hometown Techover is just one example of how we’ll get to work … and it’s just the beginning.”

• Borough of Stroudsburg, PA
• Dunn, NC
• Girand, KA
• Guadalupe, CA
• Hopkinsville, KY
• Kalispell, MO
• Tipton, IN
• Wareham, MA
• Washington, MO
• Woodstock, IL

“It’s time to celebrate the small towns at the very heart of our country,” said Jon Freier, Executive Vice President of T-Mobile’s Consumer Group. “As the 5G leader, we’re committed to helping bridge the digital divide and getting rural America as well-connected as Big City USA. This three-million-dollar Hometown Techover is just one example of how we’ll get to work … and it’s just the beginning.”

A panel of judges from T-Mobile and Smart Growth America will determine a winner based on project feasibility, the town’s need for a network upgrade, and town leadership interest and engagement. Later this summer, one of the 10 finalist towns will be crowned the T-Mobile Hometown Techover winner, but in typical T-Mobile style, the remaining nine finalists will not go home empty-handed.

The finalists will each get $50,000 to help jump-start or complete a project in their community, too!

The grand prize-winning town will score a mass of tech goods and services for the community-as-a-whole as well as individual households, worth more than $3 MILLION. Among the goodness:

• Community Grant: A $200,000 T-Mobile Hometown Grant and consulting services from Smart Growth America
• Play Ball: Little League® field refurbishment including a tech upgrade.
• Public Space Tech Upgrade: An Un-carrier style upgrade to a public space like a library, community center or town square
• Access to T-Mobile Resources: Concierge enrollment in T-Mobile  programs
• And last, but certainly not least, the bash of all bashes!: A FREE concert this fall for the winning town with 18-time chart-topping, multi-platinum duo Florida Georgia Line

America’s 5G Leader

The winning Techover town is going to be the 5G model for everyone else. But even if you are not in the Techover winning town the Un-carrier’s 5G now covers 300 million people with Extended Range 5G! T-Mobile’s Ultra Capacity 5G is expanding at an incredible pace and now covers 150 million people across the country, with plans to cover 200 million people nationwide this year. Ultra-Capacity 5G can deliver blazing fast 5G speeds in more places than anyone else, with average download speeds of 325 Mbps with peaks of 1 Gbps, while Extended Range 5G is great for blanketing the country including rural and remote areas. T-Mobile’s 5G network spans 1.6 million square miles — that’s nearly 2x more coverage than AT&T and 4x more than Verizon — and the Un-carrier keeps widening its lead.