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The U.S. arm of T-Mobile is joining the rest of America's cell-phone carriers in the 21st-century by preparing to deploy its high-speed 3G wireless data network... or so we assume/hope.
The carrier began selling the Samsung T639 handset, the first T-Mobile device to be capable of running on a 3G network. The new phone carries a radio that allows it to work on a WCDMA network at 1700 Mhz, the same band of wireless real estate that T-Mobile licensed in 2006, presumably to build out its 3G network.
T-Mobile is quite behind in the wireless data speed race though. Sprint and Verizon have had high-speed EV-DO networks since 2005, and Cingular joined the party with its HSDPA network in 2006, which means that subscribers to any of those carriers have been able to surf the Web or download songs and videos on their phones at near-broadband speeds anywhere there's a cell phone signal. All three networks have pretty good coverage and Sprint and Verizon are already talking up their 4G networks intended to make EV-DO look quaint.
We're psyched about this news because T-Mobile has some pretty cool phones (first out of the gate with the BlackBerry Pearl, new Sidekicks) and fun, money-saving features (like MyFavs).
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Subscribe to commentsanyerOct 15th 2007 10:54PM
T-Mobile finally begin to catch up with the other carriers. Good news to our customers by making the 3G market more competitive and return more benefit to its subscribers.
mlkahntOct 15th 2007 11:55PM
Do not make assumption about the technology being used. T-Mobile is likely to be more consistent with what it is doing internationally than what is done with the competing US carriers. Take a look at work done in the operations of the carrier in the Czech Republic: http://t-mobile.cz/Web/English/Internet4G.aspx - this has been the company's test-bed for future data services.