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T-Mobile gearing up for 3G network rollout – 3G coming soon, 3G T-Mobile Shadow on the way?

Categories: Rumors, T-Mobile
By: , IntoMobile
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 at 5:36 PM

T-Mobile’s 3G network just got the green light and the “best 3G network” in the West is chugging along towards its rollout this summer. T-Mobile’s CEO Hamid Akhavan said that we should be looking for the T-Mobile 3G network to go live in summer 2008, but there’s a possibility that the newly expanded carrier will be loosing those AWS 3G airwaves even sooner.

A T-Mobile dealer tipped us off to some serious UMTS activity going on in Chicago.T-Mobile 3G network coming sooner than summer? We’re hearing that the T-Mobile corporate office was filled with frenzied engineers reportedly gearing up for the upcoming UMTS launch. Word is that we’ll be seeing T-Mobile’s 3G network up and running soon, “very soon.” Does that mean T-Mobile will be lighting-off their 3G network before summer 2008? That would be a nice surprise.

In other news, an HTC rep at the same corporate T-Mobile office told our tipster to expect new variants on the HTC Shadow – HTC and T-Mobile has been planning to expand on the Shadow brand, so new variants make sense. We’re going to go out on a limb and say that T-Mobile and HTC are working on a 3G-enabled T-Mobile Shadow variant.

3G handsets, Android smartphones, more Shadow variants. We can’t wait.

We’ll keep you posted on the latest T-Mobile 3G developments! Stay tuned…

Thanks, Fahad Khan!

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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...

  • Kamilo

    I am patiently waiting for T-Mobile’s 3G network in the US.

    One rumor that I hope it’s true, it’s that there will be a Nokia E51 that supports AWS bands (1700/2100). Hopefully the non-announced Nokia E71 will support those bands as well (a nice upgrade from my E61)!!

  • Mike

    For those of you gadget freaks (like me), the Sony X1 is a quad band GSM / five-band 3G (850/900/1700/1800/2100). So if you want an unlocked phone to go from country to country without worries, this would be the one…too bad it doesn’t come out til Q3 this year.