T-Mobile flipping 3G switch in Chicago tomorrow?
We’ll keep this short, but we just got a tip from a pretty reliable source of ours that claims T-Mobile will be flipping the 3G power switch tomorrow in the Metropolitan Chicago area. 1700MHz goodness for all 7 of you that have 3G-enabled T-Mobile phones, possibly starting tomorrow.
Thanks, K.!
bring it to new england!
Is this in celebration of Chicago getting the first pick in the NBA draft!? Damn you Derrick Rose! Bring 3G to Birmingham!!!
Lil B i fell u cuz i cant wait until tha iphones real competition comes out.
sigh. and i’m downstate at school and can’t try to mess around with 3g.
I love living in Chicago, just sucks that I cant benefit from this.
Tmobile, you have 2 yrs to get some better phones or idk if I can stay with you. (I say that now, but I’ve been with Tmobile for 4 going on 5 yrs, im not going anywhere)
FUCK T Mobile!
@ H.N.I.C. – How bout F**** You !!
We had 3G since May 1st but T-Mobile doesn’t have any good phones to support it. When are the good 3G phones coming?!
I know we’re only 2 hours into july 1 but my tmobile 3g phone is still getting slow edge here in the city. and i will believe it when i see it because i dont think its ready yet.
Light up Houston already
@ Ques
“Ques,” are you Galvatron in disguise? Your writing style is eerily similar!
I know my little brother has the nokia 6263 and he had a 3g signal for like 10 seconds last week…we might be real close
Bring the damn WinMo 3G devices ASAP. I will take the Touch Pro or the X1. I have already got my apps list waiting.
When does the Dallas-FortWorth area get 3G??
Ques, only thing good about iPhone is the useless youtube and internet browsing
TH3 GAM3 rumors says by september they should have several new phones out and some should have 3g
this is in line with what i was told by a tmo rep in early june, “chicago 3G to be switched in july 08″.
i think they’ll introduce new 3g phones only when they have more markets turned on 3g. doesn’t make business sense to bring new phones only for 2 cities.
Just more to add to the rumormill:
TMO rep at a Chicago retail store told me (just now) the 3G network is supposed to be turned on sometime during July 2008, probably the end of the month.
He also said the RIM Bold phone would be the first BB with 3G support and they don’t expect it until September of 2008.
Well I take the BNSF train into the city every day. About 4 or 5 weeks ago I noticed some areas around Hinsdale & I294 that were always working at EDGE speed had dropped back to G speeds. And within the last 2 weeks the EDGE has returned but I’ve been loading webpages much more quickly. I know EDGE isn’t the same as HSDPA, but either capacity was added or an upgrade to towers is helping older EDGE run just faster? I’ve noticed this same thing along other areas of the BNSF line closer to the city.
Tmobile simply delivers fewer of my SMS messages than any other carrier.
July 1. Still slow. No dice. The informant was wrong. Its going to be a while.
sep oct they will havi it on in pheonix BOOYA ! and nope im am not ques
whe is it coming to Boston?
BG, will an unlocked iphone work TMo’s 3G network?
H3ll Freezes over. Whatup Chicagoland!