Wireless Data
Cingular leaks UMTS launch plans
Carrier prepping 18 markets for Nov. 1 launch
By Dan Meyer
Oct 14, 2005
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. appears set to make good on its claims to launch high-speed UMTS/HSDPA services in more than a dozen markets by the end of the year. The carrier released initial UMTS/HSDPA launch plans on an internal Web site that shows the carrier preparing to cover 18 markets with the high-speed network beginning Nov. 1. The markets covered in the initial launch plans include Dallas, Houston and Austin, Texas; Chicago; Detroit; Baltimore; Boston; Washington, D.C.; Atlanta; Las Vegas; Phoenix; Portland, Ore.; Salt Lake City; San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose, Calif.; and Seattle and Tacoma, Wash.
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By Dan Meyer
Oct 14, 2005
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. appears set to make good on its claims to launch high-speed UMTS/HSDPA services in more than a dozen markets by the end of the year. The carrier released initial UMTS/HSDPA launch plans on an internal Web site that shows the carrier preparing to cover 18 markets with the high-speed network beginning Nov. 1. The markets covered in the initial launch plans include Dallas, Houston and Austin, Texas; Chicago; Detroit; Baltimore; Boston; Washington, D.C.; Atlanta; Las Vegas; Phoenix; Portland, Ore.; Salt Lake City; San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose, Calif.; and Seattle and Tacoma, Wash.
http://rcrnews.com/news.cms?newsId=24497 »
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service is testing in downtown SLC. Said it would be ready by December first.
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southwestcomm said:
Sprint's EVDO is up and running....
oh yeah? well the car parked across the street from me is blue.
😕
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They may have launched it but didn't launch the phones that use it 😛 That would be a cingular thing to do.
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This is old new. What I think is particularly amuzing is that when cingular bought AT&T wireless, not even the trainers for Cingular had heard of UMTS, much less HSDPA. The former AT&T wireless had been testing UMTS in atleast 5 of the listed markets for better than a year before Cingular took over the project. I might add that they are doing extremely well and the debut of the network should be really encouraging.
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