Kris Kumar
09-24-2005, 03:45 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050921/wr_nm/telecoms_tmobile_usa_dc_1' target='_blank'>http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050921/wr_nm/telecoms_tmobile_usa_dc_1</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Deutsche Telekom's mobile unit plans to invest in its U.S. business and hopes to start third-generation services there in 2007, the unit's Chief Executive Rene Obermann said on Wednesday. "We want to carry on our business there. We want to invest," T-Mobile chief Obermann said in a speech to the American Chamber of Commerce in Duesseldorf. Analysts estimate Deutsche Telekom would have to invest up to $10 billion to buy permits for 3G services in the United States and build a network there for T-Mobile USA, the group's primary growth motor. ... The smallest mobile operator in the United States after Cingular Wireless, Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA now has more than <a href="http://www.t-mobile.com/company/pressroom/pressrelease151.asp">20 million customers,</a> Obermann said. "In view of its success, its importance is beyond doubt," he said. T-Mobile USA has doubled its customer base in 10 quarters."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/tmo.gif" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/><br /><br />For the loyal T-Mobile customers this is good news. Earlier on in the year, there were <a href="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8695">concerns</a> that the German parent of T-Mobile USA might sell-off the US business, because it is now the smallest operator. It feels good to hear statements like <i>"We want to carry on our business there. We want to invest".</i> What T-Mobile needs to do now, is launch one of the HTC Wi-Fi enabled Smartphones, which will bridge its <a href="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9168">GSM-EDGE</a> network with its Wi-Fi Hot-Spots and in the process revolutionize the cell phone industry. Just like it did years ago with low data rates. :)