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]
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.
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?”
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.
Ummm…
where’s the T-Mobile 3G news/announcement that was rumored for today?