What the Galaxy S9 says about U.S. operators’ network strategies

While much of the attention on Samsung’s latest device focuses on its features and functions—display, camera, speakers and that kind of thing—just as important to the nation’s network operators is what kind of network technology is in the S9. That’s because Samsung often leads the way in terms of implementing new wireless network technology. Samsung often builds iterations of its gadgets specific to individual operators in order to accommodate their specific technologies and spectrum bands. Thus, it’s worth looking more closely at the wireless network technologies built into the Galaxy S9 in order to see what kinds of wireless network technologies the nation’s carriers are focusing on. In announcing their plans to sell the S9, each of the nation’s top wireless carriers sought to highlight slightly different network elements.