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Calvin Gray with T-Mobile Talks Future of 5G on the Georgia PodcastAtlanta is known as the cradle for wireless communication.  In our studio is ‘the man behind the mobile network’.  Calvin Gray was the first of four engineering employees for T-Mobile.  He will tell us about T-Mobile’s advanced technology, 5G and the future of wireless communications.Calvin Gray is the Senior Director of Engineering and Operations at T-Mobile and is often known as the “man behind the mobile network.” He fell into the wireless industry by luck in 1984 and moved to Atlanta in the ‘90s, where he became one of the first four engineering employees for T-Mobile. His ingenuity helped to build the very first network site in 1996-97 – long before it was mainstream – and he has since helped the company build 2,300 cell towers and make significant enhancements to local networks ahead of the Super Bowl. To ensure the strength of the network, they enhanced it in a way so that it would cover way more people than T-Mobile currently serves an