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AT&T Tries to Steal T-Mobile's 7.2Mbps Thunder, Gets Smacked Down

by Terrence O'Brien on January 6, 2010 at 02:50 PM

Yesterday the mighty, mighty T-Mob stood up and called AT&T a chump. The exclusive iPhone holder, not wanting to look like a punk in front of all its cellular friends, responded in kind. It shook free the shackles of 3.6Mbps and, in one fell swoop, threw the switch on the 7.2Mbps network upgrade it said wouldn't come till 2012. Such an upgrade should offer a huge speed improvement for users.

Of course, T-Mobile cocked its head to the side, amused by this little game of "Mr. Me Too," and quickly pointed out that even though AT&T may have implemented the software update way ahead of schedule, customers wouldn't see any benefit without the update to the back-end pipes that actually carry the data. The T-Mob, eager to further embarrass AT&T, then proclaimed that by mid-2010 it will have pushed its entire 3G network to 21Mbps using HSPA+ technology.

AT&T plans to skip right over HSPA+ and launch a 4G LTE network that has a theoretical speed of 100Mbps. But since the company has not announced definite plans for the service, we're giving this round of one-upmanship to T-Mobile. [From: Engadget and BetaNews]

Tags: 3g, att, cescellphones, cesmobilemedia, t-mobile, top

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