T-Mobile to announce UMTS
4 Oct 2006 | Rumors , T-Mobile | 3 comments
According to sources close to T-Mobile, the company will hold a press conference on October 6 in New York. T-Mobile will announce its move into 3G communications in the United States using UMTS (universal mobile telephone service).
"T-Mobile will announce UMTS on 1700 MHz and 2100 MHz," said analyst Roger Entner, vice president of the London-based research and consulting company Ovum.
Entner said that the U.S. frequencies are different from those in Europe and elsewhere, and for that reason, T-Mobile's UMTS solution will work only in the United States until new devices with multiple frequency support are developed, despite the fact that UMTS is a global standard.
Via eWeek
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Thank you GOD!! But they'll prolly screw up, as usual.
It should go smooth as the US market for T-Mobile is among the last to go 3G so they should know what they are doing by now. The big question is what's the price going to be?
depends on their equipment vendor...given all the recent problems they would be well advised to stay away from the Alcatel/Spatial combo and go with a US based product.