Good News for T-Mo iPhone Users...

http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/articles/2011Q4Earnings

In T-Mo's 4Q earnings call there was one bright spot in the doom and
gloom of the 800,000 postpaid customer losses and decreased revenue: T-Mo
announced it would be deploying 3G at 1900MHz to make room for LTE
deployments in the 1700MHz AWS band by 2013.

This will allow non-T-Mo-branded 3G phones such as the iPhone and other
unlocked and/or unbranded phones to operate at 3G. Currently those phones
only work at 2G EDGE speeds, because T-Mo has only deployed 3G at the
1700MHz frequency to this point.

Now that the failed merger is behind them, it looks like T-Mo is finally
getting its head out of its backside and is planning to start competing
again.

On 2/23/2012 10:41 PM, Todd Allcock wrote:
> http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/articles/2011Q4Earnings
>
> In T-Mo's 4Q earnings call there was one bright spot in the doom and
> gloom of the 800,000 postpaid customer losses and decreased revenue: T-Mo
> announced it would be deploying 3G at 1900MHz to make room for LTE
> deployments in the 1700MHz AWS band by 2013.
>
> This will allow non-T-Mo-branded 3G phones such as the iPhone and other
> unlocked and/or unbranded phones to operate at 3G. Currently those phones
> only work at 2G EDGE speeds, because T-Mo has only deployed 3G at the
> 1700MHz frequency to this point.

Actually, T-Mo's AWS is on 1700 & 2100 Mhz AWS frequency-pair, right?

At 23 Feb 2012 23:37:41 -0800 cameo wrote:
> On 2/23/2012 10:41 PM, Todd Allcock wrote:
> > http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/articles/2011Q4Earnings
> >
> > In T-Mo's 4Q earnings call there was one bright spot in the doom and
> > gloom of the 800,000 postpaid customer losses and decreased revenue:
T-Mo
> > announced it would be deploying 3G at 1900MHz to make room for LTE
> > deployments in the 1700MHz AWS band by 2013.
> >
> > This will allow non-T-Mo-branded 3G phones such as the iPhone and
other
> > unlocked and/or unbranded phones to operate at 3G. Currently those
phones
> > only work at 2G EDGE speeds, because T-Mo has only deployed 3G at the
> > 1700MHz frequency to this point.
>
> Actually, T-Mo's AWS is on 1700 & 2100 Mhz AWS frequency-pair, right?

Yeah, but to avoid confusion with the rest-of-world 2100Mhz 3G band, the
industry tends to refer to the North American 1700/2100 paired band as
"1700" or "Band IV".