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Rocco Augusto
09-19-2006, 09:03 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/09/18/HNtmobile3g_1.html' target='_blank'>http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/09/18/HNtmobile3g_1.html</a><br /><br /></div>"<i>T-Mobile USA Inc. came out the biggest spender in the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's Advanced Wireless Services spectrum auction, which ended Monday... T-Mobile is playing catch-up against bigger carriers in introducing 3G services. Its bidding company, T-Mobile License LLC, had the winning bids on 120 licenses and will pay almost $4.2 billion for its spectrum. All told, the licenses it won could reach almost 475 million people, a number greater than the U.S. population. There was a wide variety of licenses up for auction, ranging from local to regional coverage.</i>"<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/augusto-20060919-tmobilelogo.jpg" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/><br /><br />It is about time T-Mobile has jumped on the 3G bandwagon! While I love T-Mobiles low cost plans, I have not been real happy with their data service as of late. After spending some time playing around with Sprint, Verizon and Cignular's 3G devices I just can not be content going back to my painfully slow 2.5G service offered by T-Mobile. :(

Mike Temporale
09-20-2006, 01:03 AM
Painfully slow? It's not that bad. Well, maybe it is. I wouldn't know. I'm lucky to get an EDGE signal. :?

Paul
09-20-2006, 11:31 AM
You meant "low cost plans"
Yea, hopefully T-Mobile will boost up data speed.

Rocco Augusto
09-20-2006, 12:10 PM
Painfully slow? It's not that bad. Well, maybe it is. I wouldn't know. I'm lucky to get an EDGE signal. :?

its decent EDGE speed but i spent the past couple weeks playing around with some UMTS and EVDO phones and the difference here in Portland is unbelievable!

now going back to EDGE is like going back to WM2003 from WM5. While you can do it... would you really want to? ;)

You meant "low cost plans"
Yea, hopefully T-Mobile will boost up data speed.

ha! oops! dunno where my head was this morning! :)