T-Mobile says it'll cover 200M pops in 3G by end of year

by Chris Ziegler posted Feb 17th 2009 at 7:40AM

Shoehorned in with its Samsung Memoir announcement today, T-Mobile has announced that it plans on covering 200 million Americans with its AWS 3G network by the end of 2009. That's up from "more than 100 million people" at the end of 2008, so even if you consider "more than 100 million" to be as high as 150 million, that's still a nice boost in HSPA coverage year over year. And considering that we're expecting a barrage of new G series (or at least one or two of 'em) to launch on T-Mob in '09, we'll take just as much 3G as we can get.

Filed under: T-Mobile, HSDPA, UMTS, HSUPA

Tags: 3g, aws, coverage, hsdpa, hspa, hsupa, t-mobile, umts

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mdmadph @ Feb 17th 2009 9:21AM

Hey, forget 3G -- I'm more concerned with T-Mobile fixing some of the massive 2G dead zones there are everywhere in their network.

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Orock Babamma @ Feb 17th 2009 10:37AM

Or even better... what's the point of 3G coverage when you have so few devices to use them with. All these new devices announced and so few w/ T-mo 3G bands. :( With Verizon implementing a my faves plan, I might start re-considering my loyalty to T-mo.

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backbeat @ Feb 17th 2009 2:38PM

You have no loyalty to TMo, Sprint-BitchBoy-Troll.

Any questions?

:)

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Jason Chapa @ Feb 17th 2009 11:12AM

Still waiting on EDGE in markets like Wichita Falls, TX.

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curry @ Feb 17th 2009 11:22AM

Verizon is over priced and it 3G is no faster then T-mobiles edge, plus the faq that they have no phones worth useing, there main phone is the storm, they are still on CDMA, I think all stick with the best carrier in the us named T-mobile, and I work for AT&T

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Ashraf @ Feb 17th 2009 12:37PM

Haha that's funny.

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spencer @ Feb 17th 2009 1:51PM

Now how about if someone asks them when they expect to have a windows mobile 3g phone on the market. There is no point in covering more area and not supplying consumers with the equipment they need.

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justinhub2003 @ Feb 17th 2009 2:47PM

tmobile might be the fourth largest carrier, but its coverage ranks higher than sprint and AT&T, as stated in the consumer reports magazine of dec 2008, they tested like 60 cities and tmobile placed second in like 90 percent of them, omlu behind verizon (which is so expensive). The magazine went on to say that using sprint and At&T should be a last resort as coverage and customer service are both bad and only go to them as a last resort..

My EDGE speeds in cincinnati rival that of 3g speeds of AT&T, as my g1 running on EDGE actually beat my friends Iphone 3g running 3g in 3 out of 5 test all with cleared caches.

i cant wait til cincinnati gets 3g, though EDGE is pretty fast here so will see how much of a difference it makes.

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