Rumor: T-Mobile launching 3G on December 6?
- November 23rd, 2007
- 4 Comments
Sometimes a rumor hits the Web and you get a little bit of “it’s about time” mixed with “what, already”? and you get confused and the drugs just don’t work anymore. Such a rumor is coming from the UK’s The Inquirer regarding T-Mobile’s sleepy 3G network in the USA.
T-Mo won the spectrum for such a network one million Internet years ago, but the government has been sitting on it. It may have stood up, as the rumor goes that T-Mobile will light-up the high-speed 3G loveline on December 6, a little less than two weeks from now.
A phone call by yours truly to my T-Mobile service rep, wherein I pretended to be thinking of switching to AT&T for the 3G speeds and the deal on the Blackjack II, got no confirmation. The rep I spoke with hadn’t heard anything, and even after asking her supervisors and checking a corporate bulletin board, she couldn’t give me any more information.
So, while we’d love to see the Mo’ step up, we’re not holding our breath till December 6.
T-Mobile goes 3G in USA [Inquirer, via Prepaid Reviews]
neal (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I relayed the message to the Inq a few days ago. My CSR was in the midwest; I’m surprised by your response from tmo, but not too much so. I’m more surprised that the whole delay has not been covered in greater detail.
Matt Hickey (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Welcome, Neal. And thanks for tipping the Internet, we love that.
If you do a search, you’ll see we’ve done a few stories on it, but it’s always kind of the same: “Well? T-Mobile? Hello? Well?”
neal (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Hey, Matt–
This related RCRWireless story I just found from two months ago is pretty insightful:
http://www.rcrnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070923/SUB/70923013/1021/rss01
I doubt tmo could go on much longer without making some sort of announcement, even a paper launch.
Marc (Who am I?)
11 months ago
Ummm…
where’s the T-Mobile 3G news/announcement that was rumored for today?