 tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
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Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 | Don't forget.. Don't forget that T-Mobile is agressively refarming their PCS spectrum to offer HSPA+ on. In some areas it's already the case, but in many markets this means that T-Mobile customers with iPhones are now getting 3g on practically empty carriers (ie since most TMO 3g customers are on AWS, most PCS-band HSPA+ cells will practically be dedicated to iPhone users.
And last but not least, with T-Mobile and ATT both deploying LTE on the AWS band, this means that they'll actually be able to have roaming agreements with each other, and share networks if they so choose.
It only took T-Mobile to get pushed into a corner to make a decision that would have saved them a lot of heartache (and money) years ago.
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| TMO still has no HSPA in AustinTX on the PCS frequencies. My friends' iPhones here on TMO are still clunking along on EDGE. |
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tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
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Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 | said by dmeyer6:TMO still has no HSPA in AustinTX on the PCS frequencies. My friends' iPhones here on TMO are still clunking along on EDGE.
Yeah they're still rolling out said deployment. They only started 7 weeks ago. |
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Of course the real question should be why they didn't implement HSPA(+) on 1900 as soon as they started to build their 3G service.
This is probably one of the most idiotic decisions ever (unless their primary goal was to force users to buy incompatible handsets and thus having less chance of defecting to ATT or something)
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tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
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Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 | said by bugabuga:Of course the real question should be why they didn't implement HSPA(+) on 1900 as soon as they started to build their 3G service.
This is probably one of the most idiotic decisions ever (unless their primary goal was to force users to buy incompatible handsets and thus having less chance of defecting to ATT or something)
Because all of their customers were already using their relatively small amount of PCS spectrum. The only way to deploy 3g on the PCS band would have been to take away spectrum from their 2g network, which was already heavily loaded. Voice would have degraded. Customers would have seen more dropped calls, and 3g data speeds wouldn't have been particularly great due to them being overloaded.
Spectrum is a hard barrier, and it's extremely well documented that T-Mobile had run out by 2006.
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-United States Secretary of Defense (1961-1968) Robert S. McNamara |
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