Home  ›  News  ›

T-Mobile Leap-Frogging HSPA+ 84Mbps to LTE Instead

Article Comments  4  

Feb 28, 2012, 5:00 AM   by Eric M. Zeman

T-Mobile USA today indicated that it no longer plans to deploy HSPA+ 84Mbps network services. Instead, T-Mobile USA will jump from its 42Mbps HSPA+ service straight to LTE. T-Mobile USA's Andrew Sherrard told The Verge that the original HSPA+ 84Mbps plan would have required T-Mobile to refarm some of its 1900MHz spectrum. Since it needs to take this same step to deploy LTE, it makes sense for T-Mobile to skip deploying HSPA+ 84Mbps.

Related

more news about:

T-Mobile
 

Comments

This forum is closed.

This forum is closed.

netboy

Feb 28, 2012, 5:18 AM

smart move!

why waste money on hspa84 when you know you going to LTE in the future.
I wonder if Tmo's LTE will be faster than ATTs LTE because Tmo has HSPA 42 to fall back on, whereas lazy-ass ATT only has HSPA 21 to fall back on.
...
 
 
Page  1  of 1

Subscribe to news & reviews with RSS Follow @phonescoop on Threads Follow @phonescoop on Mastodon Phone Scoop on Facebook Follow on Instagram

 

Playwire

All content Copyright 2001-2024 Phone Factor, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Content on this site may not be copied or republished without formal permission.