good for t-mo, but aren't they *years* late to the party? is this any sort of different implementation to what at&t has or the equivalent cdma offerings from sprint and verizon?
Yes, T-Mobile is very late in the US, mostly because of spectrum availability. T-Mobile doesn't have the 1900MHz spectrum to launch UMTS (which requires 5MHz spectrum blocks); the only reason AT&T can get away with it is that they are flush with spare spectrum from the Cingular/ATTWS deal. EVDO requires less spectrum.
There are also issues with the availability of AWS (1700MHz/2100MHz) UMTS devices.
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Patrick @ Apr 30th 2008 9:56AM
good for t-mo, but aren't they *years* late to the party? is this any sort of different implementation to what at&t has or the equivalent cdma offerings from sprint and verizon?
Brian @ Apr 30th 2008 10:20AM
@Patrick
Yes, T-Mobile is very late in the US, mostly because of spectrum availability. T-Mobile doesn't have the 1900MHz spectrum to launch UMTS (which requires 5MHz spectrum blocks); the only reason AT&T can get away with it is that they are flush with spare spectrum from the Cingular/ATTWS deal. EVDO requires less spectrum.
There are also issues with the availability of AWS (1700MHz/2100MHz) UMTS devices.
Nick M. @ Apr 30th 2008 11:12AM
they may be late... but they are still cheaper plans than all the other provders.. so I'm happy.
Geir E @ Apr 30th 2008 6:10PM
If I am not mistaken, EV-DO is what is the cdma version of 3g? is there anything that compares to what is called super-3g in europe (that is HSDPA)?
Just curious.