Could T-Mobile be poised to announce 3G on December 6th?
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Filed in Rumors, T-Mobile, UMTS
This could be the move that T-Mobile USA customers have been waiting for. According to anecdotal reports, the answer is yes. We’re calling "rumor!" on this one until further confirmation, but that won’t stop us from getting just a wee bit excited over the prospect. Apparently a company spokesperson, citing "internal documents," informed a customer that T-Mobile will be making an announcement about certain 3G services "on or before December 6th, 2007." Sounds a bit fishy to us, but we suppose time will tell. Lord knows a little high-speed data love could go a long way for the company’s customers who are still stuck on that ancient EDGE network. But again, we seriously doubt this.
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Will BB ever support GSM based 3G?
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I doubt it…but if they do I will purchase my first bb….r u a bb user?
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I just don’t see it happening. I’m a current employee and there has been absolutely NO literature and even talking to the samsung rep about the t639, he guesses mid january for “unnofficaial 3g phone”.
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i pray to god that this is true! can any1 confirm this please?
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The article sounds as credible as all those “Blackjack WM6 will be released in two weeks” rumors.
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ive talked to some of my scouces in tmobile an the fact that tey ouul dowhn towersat 3 am a put them back up at 4am an the fact you can use an unlocked tilt to snd get th 3g signa on a tmobil usa sim clearly indicatespatrst of what ive been told. you right on dec 6-7th
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The 8707 was a GSM 3G blackberry launched a few years back by Vodaphone.
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Please, baby Jesus, make this be true!
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If this is true, then I will definitely buy the Tmobile BB Curve!!!
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T-Mobile - welcome to 2005
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The 8320 uses wifi not UMTS. You should get the curve now waiting for 3G isn’t going to help you get any faster speeds.
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How does buying a curve now help you…their are no 3G BB at this point…aside from that T-Mobs EDGE is not even up to par, so they move into 3G..ya that makes sense..
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Doesn’t t-mo have something with 3G speeds…oh wait they do the WiFi HotSpot at home deal, that’s right. Sprint does the WiMAX thing. I got it now.
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praiseeeee techjesus!
*catches the holy ghost*
halazama burarakakaka
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why were they so late getting in to the 3g game anyway?
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@ gadgetchic
Supposedly its because the govt. is still using the bands that T-mobile purchased for their 3G. They’re migrating it all to new bands but they had six years to do it in. T-mobile was going to throw some more money at it to get it done faster. Apparently they did.
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Sh*ts bricks. what up poppy!
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Its about damn time. Now if only the other carriers can switch to GSM from their outdated CDMAs.
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The only thing I’d really care about if a new entrant into the wireless broadband aircard/data modem business.
Verizon, Sprint and at&t need more competition to lower prices.
If T-Mobile can pull this off right and price it competitively, all of us will benefit regardless of which carrier we have.
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So if i purchased the 8320 now, i would not see the benefits of 3G bc the 8320 is not 3G compatible right????
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tek, yes you are correct.
Galvatron, isn’t Tmo going to be using a different 3G frequency than ATT so the unlocked Tilt would not work with a Tmo 3G network.
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dosn’t have any hsdpa radios the newer blacberries will have 6 data channelsinsyead of 4 wich widens the bottleneck. hsdpa radios tri band and 600mhz prcessors
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there has been talk over the past year that there has been a t-mo 3g network being tested in the t-mo mecca (Bellvue WA). If it istrue they are going to be rolling this out i would think it would be in large metropolitan areas.. ie new york, LA, etc.
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@ben on guy posted on the cel phone signal forum that he put a tmobile sim in an unlocked tilt and was able to use NY thers a rumore flying aroud that they have there whole network coverd.
im beting te pheonix area is an active test market too. reson is a few months back they dropped the entire datata network at 3am whie was at work(i work 3rd shift) for “maintinence” iwas back up @ 6am. 3 hours to do maintinec on the data side. There seems to be somthing more.
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