T-Mobile to Boost Their Data Speeds Up to 21Mb/s!
Despite T-Mobile being the last one to the 3G party, they are claiming that they are going full steam ahead!
T-Mobile says they will be upgrading their data network software as soon as the nationwide 3G rollout is complete later this year. This will immediately double their network speeds.
Then after that they plan to move to HSPA 7.2 standards to reach theoretical download speeds of up to 7.2Mb/s (similar to AT&T’s current plans to boost their network from 3.6Mb/s to 7.2Mbs as we speak). So even though T-Mobile started much later than AT&T, if this happens they sure would have caught up fast.
But wait, there’s more… not only does T-Mobile plan to reach the 7.2 mark by the end of this year (within 3 months that means, mind you!), but they plan to begin to blow that out of the water sometime next year with the deployment of HSPA+. If they get that up and running you are looking at theoretical download speeds of up to 21Mb/s!
Along with the speed boost, they also plan to increase coverage by adding 100 more cities and increasing the people under their 3G umbrella from 121 million right now, to 200 million all by the end of this year.
All I have to say is, way to play catch up…
UPDATE: Apparently in Philidelphia the 21Mbs/sec speed is already operational! Anyone out there able to confirm this?
i also would like to add, T-mobile parent company ( duche telcom) is going to by sprint. check out the artcal from PCword http://www.pcworld.com/article/171910/tmobile_may_buy_sprint_to_create_market_giant_report_says.html
YaY!!!
Ya I’ve noticed at home my Mom and I are getting 3G where as begore it was only Edge.
And i heard Tmobile is going to buy Sprint… keep it on the low..
I installed the new HTC Hero rom on my T-Mobile MyTouch and I get 3G in San Francisco, but after driving to South San Francisco, 7 miles south, I just get Edge, and in my office room NO CONNECTION…
I hope that is improved…
No way! does this mean that there signal is gonna work better and there edge internet is gonna work faster?! because i have an iphone unlocked for t-mobile and since i cant use the 3g i always have to use edge…
Hello Gylmar,
I don’t know actually if this means EDGE will be faster. I too would love that since I use a lot of unlocked phones (HTC Hero right now), so that would be nice. We’ll have to see, 3 months or less 🙂
hey could someone please clear this up for me.. tmobile says that we are getting 3g at the end of this month (september) and after reading this article we are moving from 3.6 mb/s to 7.2 ….. what im trying to figure out is the term for 7.2 mb/s, is it 4g maybe?
THNX