12-24-2005, 02:00 PM
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Executive Editor, Android Thoughts
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T-Mo on the Grow
"T-Mobile USA has big plans for 2006, the company told BetaNews in an interview on Thursday. The carrier intends to complete the rollout of GSM 850, which has boosted its coverage area by nearly 40 percent, and finally establish its long-awaited 3G network. T-Mobile also believes it could top Verizon in Consumer Reports rankings of quality service. The biggest benefit of GSM 850 would be increased coverage, mainly throughout the central part of the United States. However, the rollout would also include rural areas of the Northeast and West. Altogether, nearly 400,000 square miles of new coverage has been added during 2005, according to the carrier. ... Eventually, T-Mobile's coverage map would be practically identical to Cingular's, erasing the advantage its rival and others like Sprint-Nextel and Verizon have over the nation's fourth largest carrier."
T-mobile is growing faster than anyone would have guessed. When I started with them in late 2002, my coverage map looked pretty much like the one above - just with WAY fewer 'green' spaces and a lot more white. 3G by 2007, GSM 850, seems like they're bound and determined to erase the "Can you hear me now" advantage of their bigger brothers. Go T-Mo 
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12-24-2005, 02:37 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Too late. At the same rate they are loosing their best customers. I for sure will not be renewing my contract in January, after 4 years they've let me down. All I want is a Windows Mobile Phone. That's all.
I already have the Ipaq. It's manageable
I also had the original T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition
Hmmmm...... Those were the days
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12-24-2005, 03:32 PM
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Sweet! Although the 850 towers won't do me any good for my JasJar.
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12-24-2005, 04:50 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jun 2003
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As long as they come out with interesting, exclusive devices in a good price point, they still have a chance.
Every celebrity out there sports a Sidekick II with all their bling-bling, which is comparatively inexpensive against any Pocket PC Phone Edition. Of course, it hardly has any customizability or expandability, but like the doomed AT&T Wireless Ogo, it did exactly what it was advertised to do, and did well - at least in version II.
I picked up one of the very first Sidekicks and it was a very rough start. Lack of support, promised OTA upgrades, SDK for program development, and serious issues out the door left a very sour taste in my mouth.
But like I said, lots of kids and celebrities alike have a Sidekick II. Had they not had that device plus their comparatively inexpensive voice and data plans, they wouldn't have made it past 2005, let alone be looking for bigger and better things in 2006.
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12-24-2005, 05:10 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Originally Posted by alabij
All I want is a Windows Mobile Phone. That's all.
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I do share your sentiment on that Alabij, but all I can tell you is to keep the faith as it were - 2006 will be more rewarding than the past few. I've been with them since '99, and in the past 6 mos. was getting the same feeling that I should start investigating another carrier. I'll hang on a little longer, just to see what happens - guess I'm one of those "glass half full" people. 
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12-24-2005, 05:52 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Too little too late.... after being a T-mo customer for 3 years I bailed when my contract ended 3 weeks ago and went to Sprint to snag a PPC-6700. The best decision I have made! extremely fast EV-DO access, coverage in all sorts of places T-Mo didn't have. T-mo should have never said they were going to take their time rolling out 3G, oh and getting a decent selection of phones wouldn't hurt them either. The customer service was tops but to me that meant little if my phone never worked where i needed it to
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12-24-2005, 07:23 PM
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Sage
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
Sweet! Although the 850 towers won't do me any good for my JasJar. |
I fear that the days of buying cool - but tri-mode only - phones available only from Europe is coming to an end. Unless you are willing to put up with limited coverage. My JasJar has been relegated to laptop-replacement duty mainly. My I730 on Verizon is my actual phone.
For a device costing almost $1000, the JasJar really should have had quad band and cover both 1800 and 2100 UTMS bands.
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12-24-2005, 10:52 PM
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Sage
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Wow, check out Virginia. T-Mo is barely there. It's a Verizon & Sprint stronghold I guess.
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12-24-2005, 11:34 PM
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Ponderer
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
Sweet! Although the 850 towers won't do me any good for my JasJar. |
Argh! Same here!! Then again, I did use my 900 Jam with Cingular's 850 network with no hitches. Hopefully that maintains, even with the GPRS.
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12-24-2005, 11:43 PM
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Executive Editor, Android Thoughts
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Originally Posted by Lex
Wow, check out Virginia. T-Mo is barely there. It's a Verizon & Sprint stronghold I guess.
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If I remember right, on my trip to Richmond last year, I had fine cell coverage. Stayed in town and near highways though, so that may have had something to do with it.
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