T Mobile today announced the price and release date for its first 4 G, HSPA + 42 modem, a device which will continue to work at high speed, even if AT & T stops existing T-Mobile network. The carrier is also expanding its HSPA + 42 three to 55 cities network, offering speeds that may be on an equal footing with 4 G LTE.
"We are ahead, and we are on track to meet our target of 150 million Americans covered [with 42Mbps HSPA +] at the end of the year, said Mark McDiarmid, Vice President of T-Mobile engineering and operations."
At a demonstration in January, T-Mobile showed 30Mbps download speeds and told to expect speeds of 5-8Mbps with its first HSPA + 42 modem download. This is similar to the speed offered by the LTE of Verizon Wireless devices.
Wireless call of 4 G technologies, the term has become almost meaningless. In carrier marketing documents, "4 G" can now refer to HSPA, HSPA +, LTE or WiMAX and technologies offering actual speeds (which we tested) anywhere between 2 to 30Mbps down.
T-Mobile new HSPA + 42 is a smooth upgrade of its system HSPA + 21 existing, which is used by the Samsung Galaxy S 4 G and T-Mobile Sidekick 4 G. The new technology consists in fact of binding together two links HSPA + 21. Although you will need for new phones and modems to take advantage of the full speed of HSPA + 42, older devices, more slow will also get more quickly. This is because part of the HSPA + 42 upgrade is to upgrade the return connections in Tours of cells T-Mobile, which benefits all their devices.
"HSPA + 42 uses the same infrastructure, the same equipment and the return of the same, so it is an integrated on our UMTS network service, and it is compatible with every GSM network on the planet." We are proud of the fact that it is integrated and backward compatible, "said McDiarmid.
About the UMTS network: when AT & T announced its intention to acquire the T-Mobile, the largest company said would eventually turn off network HSPA + T-Mobile to use the airwaves for LTE. T Mobile offers certain insurance to current customers, but not guarantee pure and simple that its network will remain intact for the next two years if the merger goes through. AT & T said later changes happen "over time", but the company accounts if it means a long or a short time.
"We can say that the contracts to which the clients subscribe now will be honoured for the duration of the contract, but after the acquisition of farm, any decision of network will be AT & T to do," T-Mobile spokesman Alex Trask said.
The first HSPA + 42 device owners can be at least a little bit future-proof, however. The T - Mobile Rocket 3.0, made by ZTE, arrives Wednesday for off-contract of $199 or $99 with a two-year contract and $50 discount mail. The new modem operates on HSPA + 42 using T-Mobile AWS frequency band, but also 1900 Mhz of the AT & T and foreign 2100 Mhz networks. This means that in a world of AT & T - Mobile, the rocket 3.0 would always be run at maximum speed, at least in some markets.
T Mobile also intends to deliver a phone HSPA + 42 at the end of the year, said the vice president of products T-Mobile Broadband Mobile and Services, Jeremy Korst.
The stick of network and new data come just as T-Mobile has released a new set of service plans, including levels of 200 MB, 2 GB, 5 GB and 10 GB. The company considers its HSPA + an alternative to the large house band, for average use is still "in the low gigabytes" for customers of USB modem, Karst said.
If the merger of AT & T does not pass, T-Mobile has ambitious plans for its HSPA network +. There are several steps to HSPA + technology can begin to 84Mbps, then 168Mbps with time - and earlier this year, T - Mobile CTO Neville Ray said the company could move forward on these steps.
"There is absolutely no change in progress." We will continue to work very aggressive involving HSPA + and 84 [Mbps] is part of the plan, "McDiarmid said."
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