  GbcueAlmost P.E.Premium
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Santa Rosa, CA
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2 edits | Not "As Fast" But *fastER* than "Verizon's upcoming LTE service (5-12 Mbps) and Clearwire (3-6 Mbps)"!
"a few extra megabits?" 42 mbps blows away most residential hard wired internet connections.
This is excellent news for the robust nationwide T-Mobile 3G HSPA+ network!
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 | | | Re: Not "As Fast" Is it 42Mb per subscriber or 42Mb per "channel"? | |
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join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | Re: Not "As Fast" Per dual-carrier channel block.
Real-world performance fro tests at Telstra indicate that speeds will range between 9 Mbps and 25 Mbps. | |
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| | |  tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 | Re: Not "As Fast" 9mbps is already readily achieved on all of the data cards. As long as they can upgrade the backhauls, I would venture a bet that 18mbps is going to be easily achievable on 42mbps hspa+ | |
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|  drewPremium
join:2002-07-10
Port Orchard, WA
kudos:6 | Who cares if you can get 42mbps if you can only get it in three markets. | |
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| | | | Re: Not "As Fast" how do you figure? t-mobile has coverage to 90%+ of americans. thats far more than 3 markets. | |
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join:2002-07-10
Port Orchard, WA
kudos:6 | Re: Not "As Fast" That 90% of coverage has backhaul for 42mbps?
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| | | | GbcueAlmost P.E.Premium
join:2001-09-30
Santa Rosa, CA
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| Re: Not "As Fast" said by drew:That 90% of coverage has backhaul for 42mbps? *buzzer sound* And AT&T has the "fastest 3G", right.
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| | | | |  en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Re: Not "As Fast" Most carriers can claim fastest - at some specific point in some specific locations.
AT&T 'had' fastest during some magazine speedtests. I suspect they're already off the top. | |
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| Re: Not "As Fast" said by iLive4Fusion:said by Gbcue:said by drew:That 90% of coverage has backhaul for 42mbps? *buzzer sound* And AT&T has the "fastest 3G", right. They do over a broader, national 3G footprint. riiiiiiiiight. you can put in a 3g network, but if it doesn't have the backhaul for it it's not much of a network. | |
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join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | In all likelihood, everywhere that has HSPA+ now has the capacity for dual-carrier HSPA+ speeds when they come out.
Other areas (stuck on HSPA, EDGE or GPRS), not so much. | |
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| | | | tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 | Re: Not "As Fast" ATT doesn't provide 3g to 90%+ of Americans either...
And frankly, based on speeds, neither does Verizon or Sprint. | |
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| Re: Not "As Fast" said by tiger72:ATT doesn't provide 3g to 90%+ of Americans either... And frankly, based on speeds, neither does Verizon or Sprint. They all 3 do provide much better speed's than GPRS to most customers though. T-Mobile doesn't even have EDGE national yet so when the poor frequency 3G fall's back to the lesser poor 1900mhz GSM, many customer's are left with poor GPRS signal.
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| | | | said by drew:Who cares if you can get 42mbps if you can only get it in three markets. after 5gb when the rate goes to about $1 a meg who will want to have 42mbps? | |
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| | | tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
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| Re: Not "As Fast" said by Joe12345678:said by drew:Who cares if you can get 42mbps if you can only get it in three markets. after 5gb when the rate goes to about $1 a meg who will want to have 42mbps? T-Mobile doesn't charge overages. They rate-cap. And it's 10GB, not 5GB.
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| |  sapoCruising Down Memory LanePremium
join:2002-09-16
Sacramento, CA
kudos:1 | You should at least bother to look at the coverage map.
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| | | drewPremium
join:2002-07-10
Port Orchard, WA
kudos:6 | Re: Not "As Fast" I'm familiar with T-Mobile's coverage.
It's sub-par. | |
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|  ptrowskiGot Helix?Premium
join:2005-03-14
Putnam, CT
kudos:4 | Right. Fast speed in 2 markets doesn't do much for the general population. | |
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| | GbcueAlmost P.E.Premium
join:2001-09-30
Santa Rosa, CA
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| Re: Not "As Fast" said by ptrowski:Right. Fast speed in 2 markets doesn't do much for the general population. I don't know what "2 markets" you're talking about, but they lit up 7 new markets yesterday alone.
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| | |  tobyTroy Mcclure
join:2001-11-13
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| Re: Not "As Fast" said by Gbcue:said by ptrowski:Right. Fast speed in 2 markets doesn't do much for the general population. I don't know what "2 markets" you're talking about, but they lit up 7 new markets yesterday alone. I think T-Mobile is referring to super markets, as that is the footprint size.  | |
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join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 | Re: Not "As Fast" Hrmm. The Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex seems to be a bit larger than a supermarket, but hey - who cares about reality? | |
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join:2005-03-14
Putnam, CT
kudos:4 | With 42 mb service? That is what I was referring to. | |
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join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
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| HSPA+ 21 Mbps is live in a fair number of markets...more markets than Clear has outfitted with 4G service at this point if I'm not mistaken. Since it's kinda hard to push 21+ Mbps over copper (I GUARANTEE that T-Mo isn't using DS3s to haul their bandwidth), the sites that support HSPA+ right now will likely handle an upgrade to 42 Mbps just fine. | |
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join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | Re: Not "As Fast" It's supposed to be, yes. I believe the issue with WiMAX is building penetration or something similar. 2500MHz works wonders for near/non-line-of-sight connectivity...or, rather, just the opposite. | |
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|  OCZThe Former Pocket
join:2009-05-15
Saint Paul, MN
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| said by Gbcue:But *fastER* than "Verizon's upcoming LTE service (5-12 Mbps) and Clearwire (3-6 Mbps)"! "a few extra megabits?" 42 mbps blows away most residential hard wired internet connections. Not to mention they aren't just a bunch of money greedy sack mouths that deprive you of every dollar and cent you've worked for. | |
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| |  CjaicemanPremium,MVM
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Parker, CO
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| Re: Not "As Fast" said by OCZ:said by Gbcue:But *fastER* than "Verizon's upcoming LTE service (5-12 Mbps) and Clearwire (3-6 Mbps)"! "a few extra megabits?" 42 mbps blows away most residential hard wired internet connections. Not to mention they aren't just a bunch of money greedy sack mouths that deprive you of every dollar and cent you've worked for. But they do have the smallest 3G network of the 4 national carriers. | |
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| said by Gbcue:But *fastER* than "Verizon's upcoming LTE service (5-12 Mbps) and Clearwire (3-6 Mbps)"! "a few extra megabits?" 42 mbps blows away most residential hard wired internet connections. This is excellent news for the robust nationwide T-Mobile 3G HSPA+ network! Now they need actual coverage to go a long with it. By 2011 LTE should be faster and WiMax already is capable of these speed's, the backhaul isn't I guess.
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Reno, NV | backhaul??? "Granted, many users are more interested in coverage and reliability above of a few extra megabits per second"
how about a backhaul upgrade to existing footprint? still slow here! | |
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| tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 Reviews:
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| Re: backhaul??? said by jweek:"Granted, many users are more interested in coverage and reliability above of a few extra megabits per second" how about a backhaul upgrade to existing footprint? still slow here! It's coming. Frankly, their backhaul when they rolled out their 3g service (just 2 years ago, btw) was underwhelming at best. They were still stuck on 2-3 T1's per tower. Deploying fiber to 20,000 towers takes a while. And they've been deploying it pretty quickly imho.
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cchhat01The Guru
join:2001-05-01
Elmhurst, NY | Ughhhh! Can anyone explain to me why there is such a huge latency in my neighborhood (elmhurst) with Tmobile 3G.
I often run the Speedtest app on my phone and if I'm awake late in teh night I will see awesome speeds upto 1.8Mbps down and 1.3 mbps up.
However during the evening around 6-10PM just when I would like to use my phone (while Im not at work), speeds are unbearable (around 200-400kbps down and about 70kbps up)... and the upstream is so shotty sometimes that I can see the upload test stutter on the SpeedTest.Net and the FCC Broadband Test App on my Nexus One.
Is this grounds to complain to Tmobile to add more backhaul?
I suspect there are a lot of Tmobile users in my area who are actually on the 3G tower...
I simply would like to watch some videos using the YouTube and TEDMobile app without having the stuttering... Otherwise whats the point of paying for 3G when I cant use it like its meant to be used.
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