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T-Mobile and WCDMA Access - What Gives?
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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1700Mhz is T-Mo's 3G frequency, so yes you will need a handset with those frequencies.
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T-Mobile doesn't have a choice. 1700 MHz is their only option.
Manufacturers will be happy to make WCDMA 1700 phones for T-Mobile. T-Mobile is plenty big for it to be worthwhile. It's not a huge deal. It's the same technology, just in a different frequency band. I'm not saying it's trivial, but it's hardly the engineering challenge of the decade.
Manufacturers will be happy to make WCDMA 1700 phones for T-Mobile. T-Mobile is plenty big for it to be worthwhile. It's not a huge deal. It's the same technology, just in a different frequency band. I'm not saying it's trivial, but it's hardly the engineering challenge of the decade.
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