09-24-2005, 03:45 PM
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T-Mobile Announces 20 Million Customer Milestone, Plans to Invest in 3G
"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 20 million customers, 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."
For the loyal T-Mobile customers this is good news. Earlier on in the year, there were concerns 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 "We want to carry on our business there. We want to invest". What T-Mobile needs to do now, is launch one of the HTC Wi-Fi enabled Smartphones, which will bridge its GSM-EDGE 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. 
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