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T-Mobile USA Pitching Long Term HSPA Evolution to 3GPP

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Holy Canoli!

RockTripod

Dec 15, 2010, 2:00 PM
That's fast. That's burn-through-your-battery-in-ten-seconds fast. I want. Too bad T-Mo will inevitably bungle it; it won't work outside of major metropolitan areas; and the aforementioned battery issue. It might actually be too fast for a cell phone. I mean that to say it would be pointless on a phone. On a USB webstick, it would rock.
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EliteABombAZ

Dec 15, 2010, 3:28 PM
Take your "Theoretical Maximums" and divide by 10 for real world speeds. Kthxbye.
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cstone

Dec 15, 2010, 3:51 PM
I usually find that multiplying by .5 seems to be a good practice to find somewhat accurate real world speeds. That aside, even if we use your figures 36mbps is faster than you would need on a computer let alone a phone.

As a T-Mobile employee I should expand on this and let you guys know that these speeds are years away. The current plan is to double HSPA+ speeds every year.
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Mark_S

Dec 15, 2010, 4:16 PM
We all know what is inside a Canoli right?
Take everything for face value and might as well be the same filling between your ears as in the Canoli. 😉
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cstone

Dec 15, 2010, 4:42 PM
Haha I didn't say that I believe that we will ever reach those speeds. Only that if we do then it would be more than fast enough. As far as the doubling speed every year, I just wanted to point out that, that is the current plan because this article made it sound as if the 650mbps speeds were coming in 2013.
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