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AT&T Wireless Details UMTS Plans

Mar 23, 2004, 7:03 AM by (staff)

AT&T Wireless yesterday released new details of its plans to deploy UMTS (WCDMA) in four cities by the end of the year. The company named Motorola, Nokia, and NEC as its first three handset vendors. The networks will be launched in San Francisco, Seattle, and two other cities not yet revealed. The company has already deployed hundreds of Ericsson and Nortel cell sites in each of the four cities, with testing well underway. Speeds are "comparable to those provided by European carriers".

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ThrustinJ

Apr 2, 2004, 9:48 AM

Suncom's future

What, if any, affect does this have on Suncom. I'm totally in love with their service and my Panasonic Allure, but if I need to jump ship...

Thanks

nitelifesc

YOU ARE IN LOVE WITH SUNCOM'S SERVICE? LOL I feel sorry for you. SunCom has the worst coverage. Everyone in the Wireless industry has been coming up with a conclusion as to what will happen to SunCom. They will strive for a while then fold. They w...
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bboudrdelta

Mar 23, 2004, 11:44 AM

hummm; somebody wants to be like Verizon

What happened to the "great" GSM Network 🤣 . Sounds like AT&T/Cingular will eventually try to get roaming agreements with verizon's CDMA Network, who has already released 3g broadband speed internet access in two cities. Nationwide buy the end of the year.

Matt420

Great "GSM" network? ATTWS's upgrade plan was convert to GSM, upgrade to EDGE, then go to UMTS. W-CDMA is different from the CDMA 1xEV-DO (or was it DV), so there is won't be any purpose to establish roaming agreements with verizon.

oddlager

🤣 🤣 BAAHAAAHAA!! 🤣 🤣

WCDMA does not equal CDMA

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mlwhite2

The two technologies are not compatible. UMTS is GSM just based on W-CDMA instead of TDMA. It will not work with Verizon or Sprint networks. In fact W-CDMA is even better than CDMA and is what they use in Japan and South Korea. Hmmm, maybe UMTS phones...
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Invader J

Mar 23, 2004, 10:36 AM

and of course....

.... one of those markets will probably NOT be New York City. Of course, why on earth would any company deploy anything in the greatest, most connected, technically hip city in the world? BOOO! Can you tell I'm bitter? Groar.

MW2

i could give you one reason why nyc would not be the test market, the shear size of that market would be a huge headache to be a testbed.

muchdrama

Mar 23, 2004, 5:23 PM

Forging Ahead

I'm surprised (and delighted) that AT&T is forging ahead with their network plans despite being bought by Cingular. It's good to see them being aggressive.

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