T-Mobile 3G network does voice and 384kbps data!
By Will Park on Thursday, May 1st, 2008 at 5:15 PM PST In T-Mobile
[Update]
It looks like T-Mobile (NYSE: DT)’s 3G network is good to go on the data side. I wish I was in New York and owned a handset with 1700Mhz UMTS to test out the 3G network, but reports indicate that speeds are as expected. Full 3G is better than voice-only 3G on T-Mobile’s 1700Mhz AWS spectrum.
Post updated.
Talk about a let-down. The T-Mobile USA 3G network launch that we thought was going to usher in a new age of high-speed 3G data for T-Mobile users in the US turns out to be nothing more than a voice-only service for now. According to T-Mobile, “the first phase of [T-Mobile's] 3G roll out supports voice only.”
To their credit, 3G voice allows for better voice quality and higher network capacity. But, without high-speed data, the excitement of T-Mobile’s 3G network has already started to fade.
Wow, whoever post this is late and showed up for the wrong party because they got directions from some douche bag who wasn’t invited. T-Mobile launched 3G voice AND data. You should do your own investigation and not rely on others who didn’t even do their own. I’m sorry, intomobile is one of my many website stops that I do regularly but have noticed you have fallen in to the same hole as boygenius for some odd reason of copying engadget. Please, news isn’t copy and paste, do some research and verify your sources. Don’t listen to website that is speculating on a document from a network that has already told their employees to tell their customers that 3G enabled phones that they have are not 3G enabled. This is a tactic so that they won’t have to deal with droves of phone nerds (myself included) from bombarding them about information they are not ready to release. It was funny for an hour for some websites to copy engadget with the whole magenta thing, but after a while it seems like a creepy man crush that builds to everyone trying to dress like the cool kid in school. I bet this is how leg warmers and the macarena got started. I’m sorry again for releasing this schpeal on you but integrity in news reporting needs to be regulated and innovation must be strived for.
Will … you dropped the ball man… anyone can do the copy and paste thing… ENGADGET AND THE BOY GENIUS…Their news item was based on an unattributed leaked memo…
info from engadgetmobile is 100% wrong
got 3G service here, both voice and internet
the editor should check this thread
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1364669