I’ve seen a lot of these utility pole setups for Verizon in Evanston, measured with my phone.

In that case it probably is Verizon.

My main question was the T-Mobile, since I’m definitely no expert, but the antenna setup does look different than a lot of more recent T-Mobile deployments.

A tall and skinny antenna in the center with 2 or 3 shorter (and still somewhat narrow) antennas around it was a pretty common T-Mobile setup for a few years.

T-Mobile started deploying that setup when they obtained their band 12 licenses (which for several years were T-Mobile’s main long range licenses).

Once T-Mobile bought their band 71 licenses (which are now T-Mobile’s main long range licenses) they stopped deploying that setup and instead used a big antenna that not only supported their new band 71 licenses, but also was able to squeeze theoretically double the capacity out of each of T-Mobile’s long range licenses and on more recent equipment (~2019+) could even integrate some medium range license support into the same antenna panel (meaning less pieces of equipment are needed now).

Really appreciate it, and tbh I was a bit surprised to get any reply on such a new platform. Thank you!

Welcome to this community!

I am hopeful that this community gains some popularity. Currently the main Cellmapper communities are on Reddit (which I wouldn’t be here if I was still happy with them) and Telegram (which IMO is not a good format for these kinds of content), which is why I created this Lemmy community.