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More Details, Dates Leak on T-Mobile's 3G Rollout Calendar
If you're a T-Mo user with a 3G-capable piece, you're probably ready to start, you know, using it. Cellphone Signal is reporting on more info of the rollout through 2008, and it's pretty much in line with the city selection we saw leak in April. No official confirmation here but the list contains a few more rumoured launch dates popping up for September.
The full leaked list (including cities recently launched):
Baltimore - Aug 18th
Houston - Aug 19th
Minneapolis - Aug 20th
San Diego - Sept 15th
Los Angeles - Sept 16th
Phoenix - Sept 16th
Sacramento - Sept 17th
Portland - Sept 18th
Seattle - Sept 23rd
San Francisco - Sept 24th
The remainder of the list of rumoured 2008 cities is the same group from April:
Atlanta
Birmingham
Chicago
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
Kansas City
Memphis
Miami
New England
Orlando
Philadelphia
Tampa
Washington, D.C.
Almost there, urban T-Mobilers. [Cellphone Signal via BGR]
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Eitan
Posted 6:35 AM 21/8/08
@theMOE: New York State.
@kickace: Missouri.
Glad to be of help.
Eitan
bah
Posted 6:24 AM 21/8/08
T-Mob launched NY 3G coverage back in May. The "recently" part of "recently launched" apparently doesn't consider three months ago (aka, a really long time ago) "recent". For shame.
Vegas and Austin also launched a while ago.
bah
dhlt25
Posted 6:22 AM 21/8/08
where is honolulu on that list. T-mobile is the biggest carrier in hawaii(which doesn't mean that much) but still i'm sure they don't want to lose customer.
dhlt25
Bluesk1d
Posted 6:20 AM 21/8/08
@theMOE: NY already has it along with Vegas you nubs!
Bluesk1d
Bluesk1d
Posted 6:19 AM 21/8/08
Man is Orange County, CA just assed out? Were right in the middle of LA and SD. I sure hope they treat OC as LA like they do with radio and TV...
Bluesk1d
theMOE
Posted 6:01 AM 21/8/08
Who the hell wants a phone carrier with a pink T on it anyway. Plus, you snub NY, you get burned. Now if only that 3G fireball will burn some 3G speeds into my iPhone 3G. Stupid fake 3G!!!!
theMOE
eekfuh
Posted 5:59 AM 21/8/08
@erikislame: Your not a bright one. T-Mobile didn't make that picture, gizmodo did.
eekfuh
erikislame
Posted 5:55 AM 21/8/08
T-Mo is stealing the AT&T 3G fireball?
Or is that a generic icon for 3G?
Or did the Art Director just lift it from the AT&T website without permission?
This article raises more questions than it answers.
erikislame
kickace
Posted 5:54 AM 21/8/08
where the hell is st. louis :(
kickace
theMOE
Posted 5:54 AM 21/8/08
Where the hell is NY?
theMOE
Stacky Botrus
Posted 7:01 AM 21/8/08
NORTH EAST?
Stacky Botrus
Enzo
Posted 6:56 AM 21/8/08
To all the people wondering why New York is not on the list....
Because T-Mobile's 3G in New York is already up and running.
Enzo
kevininstereo
Posted 6:44 AM 21/8/08
Our US 3G bands suck. I mean, AT&T offers UMTS or 3G using 850mhz(the old TDMA band) and 1900mhz, While T-mobile offers HSDPA (technically 3.5g part of the UMTS specification) using 1700MHz for uplink and 2100MHz downlink... and to screw it up even more.. the T-mobile one is not compatible with EU 3g phones (that i know of) because they're in a different range of 2100.
It would have been easier if our government could have allowed the European compatible spectrum to be used. If so we could use any EU Nokia, Samsung, etc.
Now, what we have is iPhone 3g only able to work on At&t (3g wise)
New versions of phones will need to be made for T-mobile.. So I guess we'll have phones with Tri-band UMTS, one for t-mobile, one for At&t and one for EU.
poo poo.
kevininstereo
bluemonq
Posted 6:42 AM 21/8/08
These MARKETS (not just cities) already have 3G, as of today:
Austin / San Antonio
Baltimore
Houston
Las Vegas
Minneapolis (launches today)
New York
@dhlt25: More cities will get lit up in early 2009.
bluemonq
Norcross
Posted 6:39 AM 21/8/08
I've seen my "E" switch to a "G" in Tampa randomly. Don't know if it's real or not. But noticed it none the less
Norcross
misterwho
Posted 7:43 AM 21/8/08
@misterwho: Ok, ok, my memory is not that good. I guess NY was the test market.
misterwho
misterwho
Posted 7:42 AM 21/8/08
@theMOE:
Perhaps the other cities are considered beta testers.
misterwho
K-SO
Posted 7:33 AM 21/8/08
Boston loses?
K-SO
jopari
Posted 8:01 AM 21/8/08
@K-SO: I'm guessing/hoping that "New England" means Boston and the greater area (Natick, ect).
jopari
know1
Posted 7:54 AM 21/8/08
@Norcross: That "G" is GPRS. GPRS= 1.5G to 2G (depending on deployment). All you need to know is that it is slower than edge by at least half if not more. Think dial-up modem speeds.
know1
DW
Posted 8:27 AM 21/8/08
@Bluesk1d:
"Man is Orange County, CA just assed out?"
Please tell me you're not trying to give a sly shout out to Orange County! :)
(Move up here to LA. The smog's much worse, but the 3G coverage is better.)
DW
theMOE
Posted 9:31 AM 21/8/08
@Bluesk1d: Ah... I see. Still not interested. Stupid TMobile
theMOE
know1
Posted 12:08 PM 21/8/08
@jopari: Second that.
know1
bobojuice
Posted 10:45 PM 21/8/08
@theMOE: Just north of new jersey, or so i believe.
bobojuice