T-Mobile’s HSPA+ to Get Even Faster by 2011?
According to TmoNews, the above picture was taken at a T-Mobile manager meeting held in Seattle last week. It would seem that T-Mobile has plans to double their up and coming HSPA+ network from 21mbps to 42mbps which would allow them to not have to switch to a new 4G technology to compete with Verizon’s LTE network due out at the end of 2011 (and as we know, their current 21mbps 3G is already getting faster average speeds than Sprint’s current WiMax 4G network).
The other benefit of HSPA+ is that all HSDPA devices (all of T-Mobile’s Android line up as well as the majority of their other phones) will all get a nice speed increase, unlike WiMax/LTE that you will need to buy a special LTE/WiMax phone for.
Now if this is true, all they need to do is get this network in more cities ASAP, get some higher-end Android phones, and they’d be some serious competition for the other big guys. Time will tell.
even faster?….I haven’t even seen any speed increase on my G1….Tmobile said it’s supposed to be able to do up to 7.2mb……and in the stores the G2 only does about 7mb =/