T-Mobile Expands 3G Footprint
92 markets is a Marketing Gimmick - -- It really new
What cities are available with 3G service?
Anaheim, CA
Arlington, TX
Atlanta, GA
Atlantic City, NJ
Austin, TX
Baltimore, MD...
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I am not "hating" on T-mobile, but I agree in part with the assessment of this being a bit of a gimmick. I lived in Tempe, Arizona for 10 years, and know that it is just one of the several cities that make up the Phoenix Metropolitan area - with no discernable lines between the cities save for the little green signs saying the city name when you enter them. The following is a list of the Phoenix Metro area cities that are listed as "different" Markets in Arizona, but which are all a part of that Metro group:
Chandler
Glendale
Mesa
Peoria
Tempe
(and of course Phoenix)
This seems to be splitting hairs pretty thinly.
~Jmacattack
I used this link to find a list of the current cities and there is truth to what he is saying BUT this is the same tactic used by ALL other major carriers. The facts are that in Metro LA there are over 20 cities with populations over 150000 and 5 of them have more than 300000 residents. Why should they not describe Long Beach, Santa Ana, Anaheim, & Riverside as markets when they are larger than many cities/markets on the east coast and midwest? Long Beach for example is larger than Omaha, St Louis, Tampa, Minneapolis, Des Moines, Kansas City (both), Miami, Raleigh, Cincinnati, and I can go on and on. So why not if everybody else is doing the same thing?
Webopedia Says:...
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/MSA_RSA.html »
Short for metropolitan statistical area/rural service area, cellular service areas used by the FCC to license cellular telephone service. There are 306 MSAs and 428 RSAs. Every county in the United States is assigned to one of these markets.
MSAs -- originally used by the US government for grouping census data -- include cities of at least 50,000 people, or urba
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