T-Mobile to have 3G live in 21 markets by end of October
Filed under: T-Mobile, HSDPA, UMTS
If you’ve invested in one of those Sony Ericsson TM506s being offered by T-Mobile, it certainly helps if you’ve got some place to take advantage of its carrier-first HSDPA support — and while it’s going to be a while (a good, long while) before you find it blanketing every square inch of T-Mobile’s coverage, you’ll at least have a few more cities in which to play by the time that all-important G1 launches next month. Thirteen cities have officially launched so far, with another 8 coming online in the coming weeks, another 7 beyond that by the end of the year, and “meaningful expansion to additional customers and markets through 2009.” In case you’d like ‘em to be showing a little more hustle here (and who wouldn’t?), it looks like the government is still holding things up; T-Mobile specifically mentions in its press release that it’s continuing to “work closely and effectively together” with the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and Defense to speed things along and free up AWS spectrum as quickly as possible. In the meantime, follow the break for the full list of cities that’ll be 3G-ready by the end of 2008.
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Original post by Chris Ziegler
