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Leave it to governmental agencies and bureaucratic sludge to gunk-up the 3G-rollout process for T-Mobile. As you’ll recall, T-Mobile spent a good chunk of change ($4.2 billion) to acquire 120 spectrum licenses for the 1700Mhz frequency spectrum – with the intention of using the spectrum to launch their 3G network. So what’s taking them so long to actually launch the network? Well, T-Mo’s gotta wait on law enforcement and homeland security to vacate the spectrum before the T-Mobile 3G network can get rolling.
The auction stated that the government agencies have up to 6 years to relocate and move off the 1700Mhz band – which doesn’t bode well for T-Mobile’s 3G network-launch. The company even offered $50 million to help the bumbling government bureau-tards make the move, let’s hope it helps.
There’s nothing like a bit of idiocracy to throw a wrench in T-Mobile’s plan to bring cheap 3G service to the masses. We’ve come to expect nothing less.
[Via: PhoneScoop]
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
