Official T-Mobile USA 3G thread

[mingkee]

this original post here will post where you found 3G service
and you can discuss on this thread
T-Mobile will run UMTS/HSDPA on 1700/2100 mainly, 1900 in some markets

[Nwahs]

Originally Posted by mingkee

this original post here will post where you found 3G service
and you can discuss on this thread
T-Mobile will run UMTS/HSDPA on 1700/2100 mainly, 1900 in some markets

So if T-mobile only won 10 MHz in my area, I'm assuming they will just dedicate all that to 3G?

[mingkee]

this may be a possibly running 3g on dual-band (1900 single and 1700/2100)

[NotSmellyPrepaid]

Originally Posted by mingkee

this may be a possibly running 3g on dual-band (1900 single and 1700/2100)

Could somebody give a small explanation (small for the geek-impaired amongst us...) of 3G and where these extra bands are coming from? (1700/2100?) Also, what is UMTS and HSDPA?

Thanks!

[Nwahs]

Originally Posted by NotSmellyPrepaid

Could somebody give a small explanation (small for the geek-impaired amongst us...) of 3G and where these extra bands are coming from? (1700/2100?) Also, what is UMTS and HSDPA?

Thanks!

Well I'm looking this up as I write, so I am no expert.
Right now, T-mobile utilizes 1900 MHz. They have voice (phone calls) GPRS (Slow internet) and EDGE (Little bit faster data) on 1900MHz. Recantly there was an FCC auction, that auctioned off 1700/2100 MHz spectrum. T-mobile spent somewhere around 4.3 BILLION to buy spectrum. On this new spectrum, they will likely be deploying 3G. 3G (3G - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) services include UMTS and HSDPA (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System and High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) the later of which is faster. There is speculation that T-mobile will skip UMTS and go right to HSDPA. Right now there are some reports that T-mobile customers are getting 3G on their current phones using 1900 MHz, meaning that T-mobile may deploy 3G on both 1900 and 1700/2100 MHz.

Any other questions?

[NotSmellyPrepaid]

Originally Posted by Nwahs

Well I'm looking this up as I write, so I am no expert.
Right now, T-mobile utilizes 1900 MHz. They have voice (phone calls) GPRS (Slow internet) and EDGE (Little bit faster data) on 1900MHz. Recantly there was an FCC auction, that auctioned off 1700/2100 MHz spectrum. T-mobile spent somewhere around 4.3 BILLION to buy spectrum. On this new spectrum, they will likely be deploying 3G. 3G (3G - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) services include UMTS and HSDPA (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System and High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) the later of which is faster. There is speculation that T-mobile will skip UMTS and go right to HSDPA. Right now there are some reports that T-mobile customers are getting 3G on their current phones using 1900 MHz, meaning that T-mobile may deploy 3G on both 1900 and 1700/2100 MHz.

Any other questions?

Not right this moment, thank you. I'm still digesting the above paragraph! Thanks for the explanation!

[mingkee]

by phonescoop, moto Q9 is spotted will have 1700+1900/2100 HSDPA

[brad15]

god i cant wait until 3g rolls out so i can stop having the conversation with cingular customers about it.. all i have to do to end it is bring up the fact that i don't garble and drop calls.. that usually puts a stop to it really quick :D

[arigold]

Originally Posted by brad15

god i cant wait until 3g rolls out so i can stop having the conversation with cingular customers about it.. all i have to do to end it is bring up the fact that i don't garble and drop calls.. that usually puts a stop to it really quick :D

I'm just going to nod, smile and agree to this one.

[Nwahs]

"In addition, T-Mobile USA has started rolling out its UMTS network and has already deployed 3G equipment on over 1,200 cell sites in the New York metropolitan area."
T-mobile 4th quarter release. Looks like NYC is gona have 3G soon...now just to get phones that support that freq.

Anyone else think this should be stickyed?

[mingkee]

too bad I can't go 3G route this time
phone support is the main problem
currently, there's NO unlocked phones with AWS (1700) band