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HSPA 7.2 and HSPA+ planned

Howie said:
I'm jealous. We don't have 3G coverage all over my city yet...Even when I put in specific addresses on T-mobile's coverage map it shows that is in the center of 3G and there isn't actually 3G service there. Guessing the map shows "soon to be live" coverage instead.
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I guess most T-Mo 3G users are waiting anxiously for their "by the end of the year" 7Mb upgrade.
 
im running on edge also. in a suburb of new haven ct.. 2 minutes down the road and im in 3g. but the numbers are not impressive
 
BiGMERF said:
im running on edge also. in a suburb of new haven ct.. 2 minutes down the road and im in 3g. but the numbers are not impressive
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yeah I know what you mean. At the house I have "3.5G" and speeds are only peaking at 700kbps. That's some HSPA performance :rolleyes:
Work which is only 4miles away was pulling in GPRS, but they finally sent the engineers out and it's now showing "3G"
 
Howie said:
yeah I know what you mean. At the house I have "3.5G" and speeds are only peaking at 700kbps. That's some HSPA performance :rolleyes:
Work which is only 4miles away was pulling in GPRS, but they finally sent the engineers out and it's now showing "3G"
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You might have had a bad signal, ived had full bars of 1xRTT but when I went to see the signal strwngth under settings it was -115dbm which if you don't know that's impossible to do anything with. Generally HSPA means a BIG speed increase but its not a guarentee like carriers would wish. It also might have been being worked on or something. Id love to try T-Mobile out just to test there coverage and network performance and see how nasty EDGE really is.
 
nateo200 said:
You might have had a bad signal, ived had full bars of 1xRTT but when I went to see the signal strwngth under settings it was -115dbm which if you don't know that's impossible to do anything with. Generally HSPA means a BIG speed increase but its not a guarentee like carriers would wish. It also might have been being worked on or something. Id love to try T-Mobile out just to test there coverage and network performance and see how nasty EDGE really is.
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My signal is -57dBm and just pulled 554kbps down / 337 kbps up
 
If they are marketing those little 3G sticks for laptops like they are up here they will have disappointed customers if you can't even get 1M speed. With tethering I don't them but they are all over the ads here. Not such a big deal on a phone at least for how I use it but on the 'slower' towers I still get 1500kbs or better most of the time. >3M is pretty common. Of course your mileage may vary....
 
Markdental said:
It's hard to believe, but how will we know if this has happened?

I am guessing a huge announcement and then a quick lawsuit against ATT for their then false "Fastest 3G network" claim.
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Friend of mine got a text from Tmo the other day about better coverage in his area from some new cell sites.
 
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