Xperia X10 Clears FCC with 3G for T-Mobile USA
Directed to... Rich Brome
Manufacturers will sometimes make versions of phones for the US just to sell themselves, unlocked. However, if it's a 3G phone, they usually design it to work with AT&T's network, since they have more customers, and therefore a larger potential market for the phone. (Nokia and Sony Ericsson both do this.)
So for a phone to have T-Mobile 3G usually means it's intended to be offered by T-Mobile themselves. However, it's not at all uncommon for high-end phones like this to be planned, then killed before release. It may fail some kind of testing, or the carrier may simply decide they can't get the price down to something they think will sell.
So I can't say what's going on for...
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Does anyone really use HSPA 900?
Unfortunately, around the time those phones hit the market, LTE will be deployed on new and different bands in many parts of the world, complicating things further.
Just like how quad-band GSM phones became common right around the time 3G took off, antenna technology will probably continue to be one generation behind.
Verizon has just about as much or even more spectrum than ATT.
Now, when they eventually start to phase out 2G, they may deploy 3G in the 1900 band. Who knows how they'll handle 4G.
That also means they may be stuck in the market share position they're in. If they had any aspirations to be the #1 carrier in a few years, I don't see how they could handle that many customers with their current spectrum holdings. They would have to buy Sprint or something similar.
They could buy Sprint out, if they saw fit to do so. Heck, I think they will buy out MetroPCS either in 2010, or 2011.
terryjohnson16 said:
I don't know why they felt they didn't need to bid on the 700MHz spectrum. I wonder if they will bid on a new auction. I thought they wanted to bid again for the rest of the AWS-3 auction.
They could buy Sprint out, if they saw fit to do so. Heck, I think they will buy out MetroPCS either in 2010, or 2011.
I thought T-Mo was outbid by Big Red on the 700MHz spectrum, no? But yeah I'm in agreement, I would have loved the 700MHz. Better indoor penetration.
MetroPCS is ideal. Metro is gonna go LTE, they use AWS 1700 and they have 1900MHz just like T-Mo does. T-Mo could simply convert all of Metro customers to their Flexpay plan which is the same platform Metro uses now. I think it c...
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terryjohnson16 said:
I see T-Mobile buying MetroPCS and Cricket eventually. T-Mobile took way too long to buy Suncom. If AT&T didn't have coverage in the Carolina's they would been the vultures to swoop down and buy Suncom.
They didn't need it, and what vultures?
Rich Brome said:
Exactly. A perfect example of how a phone might have TMO 3G and not come to TMo. (Although I suppose it could still happen with that one.) With that said, 90% of phones approved with TMo 3G do come to TMo.
Yeah I believed this happned with the Samsung Galaxy aka i7500. Which of course a variant wound up later as the "Behold II"
RSKING85 said:
That'd be legit! The X10 sure is a nasty device spec wise and to have Android OS, wow! Let's hope the negotiations are going well...
Hell yeah. I'm afraid of what the pricing will be on this bad boy though
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