T-Mobile HSPA+ Upgrade Expands > Phones and Coverage

reply to iansltx

Re: Phones and Coverage

I live in neither and IMo doesn't have more than GPRS in my area. As for the company not needing faster phones, I won't disagree about the number of 7.2 handsets that they have available. However they need something that can max out faster than the .Evo in order to effectively compete with it. On the high end, price isn't everything

According to some recent speed tests between Sprints 4G (Evo phone and their USB stick), their "4G" speeds were about the same or slower than T-Mobiles HSPA+.

So any phone that can take full advantage of 7.2HSPA is already on par with the EVO. Marketing aside, the numbers show 4G isn't all that super-de-dupper yet.

I agree that 4G has been crap on the Evo in areas where the network isn't built out. However in good areas 4G can hit 10 Mbps, and as time goes on there will be more and more of those areas, all without having to upgrade phones...