http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/ Engadget Mobile Comments for T-Mobile likely to skip HSPA+, head straight to LTE http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/It makes sense that they would. I'm hoping DT's USA unit follows suit.

I doubt there will be much demand for wireless speeds in excess of 14 Mbps within the next two years anyway sans a few mobile diehards or extreme business users.

T-Mobile now has a chance to step up there game and roll out 4G services alongside their larger rivals instead of 2 years behind them. ]]>Nov 8th 2008 8:34PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/]]>Nov 8th 2008 8:42PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/
]]>Nov 9th 2008 8:29AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/Yeah. I work for at&t. Although I naturally want my company to be successful, I still root for T-Mobile in order to bring balance and needed competition and I'm a big champion of LTE.

I would love to see T-Mobile be right at the forefront of brining 4G tech to the masses and give at&t a real reason to lower their prices. I'll admit it, at&t's 3G network is a joke in many areas and we've been deploying it already for years. And to think we charge Verizon prices and underdeliver!

I hope this is true. At least they have the spectrum to go forward with this unlike years past where they had to make due with 2.5G. ]]>Nov 8th 2008 8:44PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/
Notice how they Went Straight to HSPA right off the Bat with 3.5G in the US instead of Evolving from Basic UMTS that was VERY nice. And THey will be one of the First Providers in the USA to Provide LTE, they've already been Testing it out for MOnths and the Spectrum that they won for their 3.5G network has an Awful Lot of Spare Room for Future projects, Specifically LTE which is the Future.

So if you've been Paying attention the Last couple years you already knew that, I made a post about this a Year ago.
Very Exciting Times indeed for T-Mobile here and Abroad.

Its really nice to see that Deutsche Telekom has FINALLY started to use its Knowledge for their USA branch of their Business and its already been Apparent the last few Months and this is only the Beginning.]]>Nov 8th 2008 9:33PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/Nov 9th 2008 6:05PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/Nov 9th 2008 6:47PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/Nov 8th 2008 10:48PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/starting from 56k GPRS, and went up to EDGE in 2005
but now EDGE is barely practical, HSDPA is practical with a laptop, the speed is like regular DSL, 1Mbps is pretty good for daily use, even with youtube
it should be nice T-Mobile will step up and use band II and IV (1900 and AWS) for LTE]]>Nov 8th 2008 11:31PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/Nov 9th 2008 12:51AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/
I love how Engadget so called reporters like to announce technologies havien arrived in given markets, but that only means it exists, not in any serious footprint.]]>Nov 9th 2008 7:17AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/Nov 9th 2008 9:57AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/Nov 9th 2008 10:11AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/
Yeah, and TD-LTE doesn't make much sense since most countries are running FDD. (WiMAX and TD-SCDMA are the only exceptions I can think of.)]]>Nov 9th 2008 9:27PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/08/t-mobile-likely-to-skip-hspa-head-straight-to-lte/Nov 10th 2008 11:20AM