What Gives With T-Mobile and WCDMA
Does anyone know which band TM is going to use for WCDMA access? The following sentence, from an article excerp found in the home page of phonescoop, makes me a bit uneasy about T-Mobile's plans for deploying WCDMA:
"T-Mobile spent $4.2 billion to acquire 120 licenses in the 1700 MHz band, and reportedly offered the federal government an additional $50 million to move off of that spectrum sooner rather than later."
As some of you may recall, WCDMA is being implemented by AT&T in the 850MHz and 1900MHz bands. Should T-Mobile go to the 1700Mhz band, there will be a need for a different telephone than those used by AT&T customers in order to access TM's WCDMA. I am wondering if any company will fabricate such telephones given that TM i...
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"T-Mobile spent $4.2 billion to acquire 120 licenses in the 1700 MHz band, and reportedly offered the federal government an additional $50 million to move off of that spectrum sooner rather than later."
As some of you may recall, WCDMA is being implemented by AT&T in the 850MHz and 1900MHz bands. Should T-Mobile go to the 1700Mhz band, there will be a need for a different telephone than those used by AT&T customers in order to access TM's WCDMA. I am wondering if any company will fabricate such telephones given that TM i...
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they will all be using different freqs. There just isn't room on the others. And they can make phones that use like 6 freqs. Phones here in japan can be used here of course and any country that uses WCDMA or GSM.
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Well they could deploy it in their 1.9 GHz, 1.7 GHz and 2.1 GHz. They only have on average of 25 MHz in the 1.9 GHz while in the 1.7/2.1ghz they have closer to 35 MHz Therefore; they would probably pick the latter than the former, especially since they can use their 1.9 GHz on voice and focus on 1.7/2.1ghz on data. Bringing all three would definitely help too because they can utilize more than 50 MHz of combined spectrum.
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Indeed. They will also receive more spectrum from the Suncom transaction once it is approved then closed.
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T-Mobile has no choice but goes for AWS band
but you should notice that, T-Mobile got 20MHz+ for all markets, there's something behind the $4.2 billion
I don't think T-Mobile is stupid even they know the Government is lazy to free up the spectrum
let's see what'll happen 2 years later
T-Mobile will deploy 4G (LTE) just with existing AWS band
it is unclear now, but the future is clear: 4G, 3G is just living short
the profit of 3G is: no more missed call when internet is active
but you should notice that, T-Mobile got 20MHz+ for all markets, there's something behind the $4.2 billion
I don't think T-Mobile is stupid even they know the Government is lazy to free up the spectrum
let's see what'll happen 2 years later
T-Mobile will deploy 4G (LTE) just with existing AWS band
it is unclear now, but the future is clear: 4G, 3G is just living short
the profit of 3G is: no more missed call when internet is active
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