RSST-Mobile readies 3G for Dream's arrival
By Tim Conneally | Published September 18, 2008, 12:46 PM
Today T-Mobile announced that its 3G network will be available by mid-October, roughly the same time the HTC Dream Android phone is expected to go on sale.
T-Mobile will be premiering the world's first Android phone in just five days; the 3G device is presently without an official sale date and price. Unofficial reports have placed availability between October 13 and October 21, and though today's announcement from T-Mobile does not provide any further information on dates, its "mid-October" availability of 3G services is in keeping with that timetable.
Twenty-seven major US markets will have T-Mobile 3G by the end of the year, the company said today, and expansion will continue through 2009. Work on the network began in 2006.
Deployment is currently complete in Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, Miami, Minneapolis, and the New York metropolitan area, just short of the 20 that were expected in the spring, but the German mobile carrier says that Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Orlando, Philadelphia, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Seattle will be switched on in October.
A further six markets -- Birmingham, Denver, Detroit, Kansas City, Memphis, and Tampa -- are expected to be receive UMTS/HSDPA connectivity before 2009.
I find it odd that T-mobile went so "Texas heavy" for early deployment of the new 3G network. Texas is probably one of the least technology advanced states in America. One would've thought San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, San Jose, and other tech centers would've been first.
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|You know... this would be true if you didn't also take into account that Texas has some of the fattest pipeline in the United States and by proxy is home to more co-location facilities than any other state and by proxy, is home to a large number of the web hosting providers out there.
You've mistaken cities with more intelligence per capita with states with more bandwidth, cheaper deployment costs and a better economy.
=)
And yes, San Francisco and Seattle are certainly tech headquarters due to Silicon Valley and then Microsoft / Nintendo / whatever ... but then again, Texas is home to DELL and AMD/ATI ...
I think you just think that we Texans are stupid =) (God I hate living here... terrible weather for the sake of a thriving consumer economy, low house prices and being the ideal test market for Vanilla Coke, Fiber Optic and now 3G via Tmobile!)
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|ATT, Sprint, Verizon are closing in on 4G and Tmobile is just gearing up for 3G. Pathetic.
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|AT&T is just gearing up 3G. Their network is obviously not nationwide or reliable. They're 2 years behind Sprint and 1 year behind Verizon.
It's still amazing to me that they have to claim "global coverage" in their advertising. They also had to drop their reliability claims.
However, T-Mobile does seem to be far behind the others. However, if they've got so much done, they might have more than AT&T prior to 2009.
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|T-Mobile isn't playing the bragging game as much as the other companies. The focus on customer support and keeping their business stable... and it's been a pretty decent strategy thus far... I'm on T-Mobile and have avoided the horror stories that I hear associated with other carriers.
T-Mobile don't do anything amazing for me - but they've just been a very dependable service that seems to manage themselves well, keep their employees happy, and keep things consistant for the customer.
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|It still will not be as fast as The PC Edge !!!
and it works in every US city !!
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It has Free GPS Navagation !!
It has Free 50 GIGs of online storage !!
It has Free Remote PC Access !!
It has Free Office Suite from Zoho.com !!
It Costs only $ 199.99 !!
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www.thepcedge.com
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|WTF is that thing? Ew.
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|It was designed by a 15 year old on drugs!!
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|If T-Mo USA 3G only wasn't using a custom proprietary ultra rare frequency (I think 1700 plus some 2100 that isn't quite 2100) that only T-Mo USA would be using...
I guess they had to take what was available in the spectrum and shame on the FCC for not coming up with a regulation supporting a fundamental standard what band to connect on...
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|Did New York dissapear from the list?!
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|T-Mobile originally planned to have 3G service in New York city before any other market.
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|NYC is already active for T-Mobile, as far as I remember seeing a month or two ago.
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