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| It's not just iphone Although I have an iphone, it's a real problem that ALL that is spoken about is the iphone. In the MVNO market TMO is tearing it up. If BYOD MVNO spin up, you could use "world phones" or AT&T phones on the Tmobile MVNO network. In fact I just did this.
I'm putting my SO on Straighttalk Tmobile SIM but the phone was a Tmobile phone (HTC mytouch 4g). If TMO had 1900 in operation that would open up my world to all sorts of phones, and even ones like Droid 3 which sits on Verizon. So cue the Nexus 4...
So while the iphone is nice, the android market on MVNO is MUCH bigger and this only makes TMO more attractive.
I know in the US we get all teary eyed about iphones, but android has like 75% of the world market now (just not in the US), even in the us it's 50% android, 34% iphone.
My point is, the iphone isn't the only phone on the planet. |
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| said by elefante72: If TMO had 1900 in operation that would open up my world to all sorts of phones, and even ones like Droid 3 which sits on Verizon. So cue the Nexus 4...
T-Mo operates in 1900 MHz, but only GSM, aka EDGE. It won't turn your phone into a brick, but Internet will be slow as shit. |
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Atlanta, GA | said by Network Guy:T-Mo operates in 1900 MHz, but only GSM, aka EDGE. It won't turn your phone into a brick, but Internet will be slow as shit.
Did you not read the article? They are refarming the 1900MHz spectrum to HSPA+, so phones like iPhone or other AT&T phones will get high-speed data, not EDGE.
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| Yes, I understand that.
What I was trying to say is that his particular phone and mine will fallback to EDGE when this re-farming happens, since our particular phones only do HSPA in 1700 MHz band, not 1900.
On the brighter side, at least we can still re-purpose older phones that support HSPA on 1900 MHz, and the selection of phones that support that frequency is still very decent. |
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| said by Network Guy:Yes, I understand that.
What I was trying to say is that his particular phone and mine will fallback to EDGE when this re-farming happens, since our particular phones only do HSPA in 1700 MHz band, not 1900.
I understand what your saying Net guy however from what Ive read even after the re farming of 1900 is complete and they begin on the 1700 band that not all of the 1700 will be re farmed into LTE. 1700 will be dual use (LTE 60-70% & HSPA 30-40%) So those of us with 1700 HSPA only phone will not be thrown back into the dark ages. The difference lies in the max speeds, HSPA phones will top out at 42mbps there will be no upgrade for TMO HSPA to the current max of 84mbps where as LTE phones will be given the green light to run fast and furious.
I too own a TMO phone that only supports HSPA on 1700/2100 so this was a major concern of mine as well. I'm not looking to upgrade unless I really have to. |
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| reply to elefante72
Something else to keep in mind is that the PCS HSPA+ network is operating a lot stronger than the current HSPA+ on AWS. A T-Mobile phone would keep and get HSPA+ deep inside buildings and stuff where they tend to go to edge now. (Not sure why they turn down the power of the aws)
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I know that, but I guess EDGE is better than my EVDO on Sprint  The towers in my town, you are lucky to see 128kbps....
I can't see someone paying $50 a month prepaid for edge, but I guess a lot of iphone users do that today on TMO..
I thinks what happens to the 3G networks will be important, and by TMO moving to 1900 for WCDMA that opens up a new market for them on MVNO. |
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| Yes. I'm soon about to dump Sprint because of this. Their EVDO service is a joke. My contract with them ends in 16 more days. 
By opening 1900 MHz to MVNO's they'd be in direct competition with Straight Talk and AT&T at the very least, and that should would be a wonderful thing for them. |
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