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1. Comment - T-Mobile Plans for Growth, 3G in 2006

   (Dec 21, 2005 - 5:13 PM)

   Dear Rijp,
   
   >Yeah, but they don't have the same level of techology. We aren't behind Europe,
   > it takes a lot more money and planning to implement it, so its slow to get here,
   > because it has to be available everywhere in the USA, not just 1 state at a time.
   
   First of all, I am in the industry and think I have the facts straight here. The biggest mobile technology is GSM, with over 1.5 billion customers globally.
   
   http://www.gsmworld.com/...df/gsma_stats_q3_05.pdf
   
   In Europe we close down the last analogue networks in 2006, and what’s left is GSM and the 3G evolution UMTS, based on the same core network. The US is among the only major country, which still has a significant share of the mobile fleet on analogue.
   
   Significant parts of Asia and Europe passed 90% penetration, whereas the US is a laggard here. 50 million GSM subscribers our of a population of almost 300 million.
   
   > How big is UK? Maybe the size of texas? That would be easy to implement.
   > if that's all they had to do, but they don't.
   
   Have you been working in this area so you have ANY idea of what you’re talking about? Covering one vast country and several small ones is virtually the same as the heavy part if the radio side and this is divided into regions anyway. Geographic coverage in the US is substandard, which is why T-mobile moves to deploy 850 – they need the radio reach. Building with 1900 is expensive as the reach is so poor (and UMTS and other 3G services are of course even more expensive given it’s typical 2.1GHz spectrum allocation).
   
   So, please review the BASIC facts again prior to making bold statements!