T-Mobile has finally launched their first 3G (third-generation) network in New York – but there are unseen complications that no one was expecting. Consumers were eager to test it out – but soon discovered that they were unable to use the fast speeds that are offered by the network. Consumers have the ability to use their phones that will enable them to download information at the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) speeds that reach speeds of 384K bps (bits per second).
While the network supports High Speed Downlink Packet Access – which offers download speeds of around 1M bps – T-Mobile doesn’t have any handsets yet that are compatible with the network. The operator said it plans to offer its first HSDPA device “in the coming months.”
AT&T (previously known as Cingular Wireless) has been producing and selling HSDPA phones since the middle of 2006. Yet, T-Mobile is unable to offer these specific phones to their customers because the networks that they use are on a different spectrum. This means that handset manufacturers are going to have to fix their HSDPA phones – which were created for other operators in order to work on T-Mobile’s network.
T-Mobile has already been selling four phones that will work on the UMTS network. They include Nokia’s 6263 and 3555 and Samsung’s t639 and t819. T-Mobile is planning on starting up 3G networks in many of the larger cities over this year. They didn’t release which cities they would be going to.
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