We’re holding this in the rumor column for now, as it appears to be a real screenshot sent our way but we’re still working toward 100% confirmation. We have, what appears to be a list of 3G cities going live this year for magenta. Its a pretty compiled list and is sure to please quite a few of you who are still oh so patiently waiting for the greenlight! While we want to reinforce the idea that we haven’t confirmed this list, it seems pretty legit and unless its a cruel joke from an AT&T fanboi who just wants to tease us, this should hopefully give those of you left waiting for 3G a better idea of what to expect this year. Did your city make the list??
ahh no love for us over here in puerto rico… were are still part of the usa why would t-mobile forget about us.??. t-mobile is doing very good over here in puerto rico.. im sad ;-(
I am hoping that Buffalo, NY is going to be included with Rochester, NY. Not seeing Buffalo on that list made my heart sink. My G1 works fine with edge, but for the love of god 3G would be amazing. If anyone knows about Buffalo’s 3G, let me know!!! mspry10@gmail.com
No INDIANAPOLIS?! You gotta be kiddin me…..seriously…..you REALLY gotta be kidding me
u gotta get rid of payton panning. his head makes 1700 frequencies freak out
j.k its all due to money and govt releasing spectrum. tmo has paid extra to hurry things up still the govnt needed to make verizon the biggest carrier in us. before tmo could get 3g its all politics. and has alot to do with tmo asking the govnt for warrants when they ask for our own personal details.cpni and call info , others like verizon and att just give it up. thats why their treansactions are alot smother . we actually have a german based company who cares more abt our security then our own american companies. its all about nwo new world order
Reno Reno Reno Please
I hope Columbus OH will include Cincinnati, but I expect it won’t since it is 100 miles away. What does a Cincinnati guy have to do to get 3G?
(P.S. Does anyone else find the cat pictures annoying?)
T-mobile 3G expansion is a joke. Why are small towns getting 3G in Q2 when larger cities aren’t slated for 3G expansion until Q4? This makes absolutely no sense.
Omaha, Nevada?! WTF. Surely they mean Omaha, Nebraska. Even then, I get shitty T-Mobile service everywhere in Omaha and Lincoln, so if T-Mobile is planning a 3G launch here, hopefully they’ll install more regular cell towers!?
OMG that is such a cute kitty picture.
We already have 3G in Charlotte???
Unbelievably weak list. Lubbock, Texas? Really? What about all the other major metropolitan areas where people actually live?
That’s it, I’m dumping T-mo. Their high speed data network coverage is the laughing stock of the entire wireless community in the US.
Woohoo!!! 3G for Wichita Falls in April. It’s about time! This better be accurate! Now we have to just sit back and wait.
My city didnt make the list….but my state DOMINATED the list. =D
I work for TMobile and after chatting with our network engineer for our area, he said he has 67 work orders(read: towers) for the Southeast part of TN. Sorry can’t reveal the city but it shouldn’t be hard for you kids to figure out. He said it takes him about 3 days to wire each tower with the equipment so he is saying end of June to go live in this area. That’s assuming everything works right when they go on air;) Stay tuned….
Some of you are getting way too upset over not seeing cities on an unofficial list. There are sure to be a lot of missing cities. I am working on the 3G team for one market and in that one market along there are several cities not listed that will be coming up in Q3 and Q4. Don’t forget the ‘and many more’ part of that list. That is not even close to being an official list.
I agree with J. Don’t get too excited or disapointed in something that may or may not be 100% true or accurate. I am sure T-Mobile isn’t forgeting about anyone… it just takes time to roll everything out everywhere. I doubt T-Mobile will let Verizon or AT&T get away with better coverage. If anything they will have the same once they finish the 3G roll out. And for the ones who’ve been with T-Mobile this long… I doubt you’ll leave… I say the same thing anytime I feel like I am not getting what I want but when I think about it I actually get more than what I would probably get from any of the other carriers and it cost a whole lot less. I am not saying I never want them not to bring 3G to my area… but what I am saying is if it takes a little longer to do so I’ll be more than happy to wait. Edge works pretty well as is… and the important thing is that I can make and recieve phone calls without dropping them. (witch so far… I stay connected) So before you start yelling or staying your going to change carriers… ask yourself this… have I been overall happy with my T-Mobile experience. I for one will say… H3LL YES!!!
That’s it? What do they have like 2 installers to do the whole freakin’ country? Where’s Cincinnati? Columbus, Cleveland, Louisville and stinkin’ Pittsburgh, but no Cincinnati? Geez, you have one riot and no one respects you any more. That’s it! I’m moving to Columbus!
Actually, for Q4, it only lists 5 cities and then says “and many more”, so I’m hoping Cincinnati is one of the many more.
But if not, there will be many more Android phones on other carriers this year.
Actually this post is pretty accurate. I am a contractor and am currently installing 3G in the following cities Cincinnati. Cleveland, Columbus, Denver, Knoxville, Nashville, St Louis, Pittsburgh.
We are will be integrating all the cities by end of Q2 if the RNC’s(Switches) are completed for them to go online. This does take some time to do. So this post is extremely accurate you just have to keep patient. Some of the cities could fall into Q3 if these RNC’s aren’t ready. For example this week Denver is getting 60 more sites turned up on air. I believe we are moving to St Louis or Cincinnati next depending on the readiness of these RNC’s. Last year alone my company turned up sites in Chicago, Detroit & Minneapolis.
Nice. Come on T-Mo expand that footprint.
SLC FTW! WOOT
One other thing to keep in mind is though the city has Q4 listed as the date that date is a completion date and not necessarily an activation date. As long as there are a certain percentage of sites ready they will be activated. Some of these cities have a couple phases to turn up so phase 1 may turn on much earlier.
Springfield, IL already had AT&T 3G when I visited it in February, even though that list shows it as getting it in May.
Oh, I see, this is for T-Mobile news. That’ll teach me for not paying attention to what site I end up on.
Rochester, NY and Cleveland, OH, but not Buffalo!?
if i don’t have 3G by Q3, I’m getting rid of tmo.
I tried TMobil 3G here in Los Angeles and it sucked big time. Got rid of it after 2 weeks…
So when is 3G gonna hit north Carolina??? I really like my G1 but I feel kinda out of it when my friends have blackberries with other carriers and they are on 3G.I have a wifi at home now so it helps but I also figure why have such a great phone when u can go and use it to its fullest capability?I am not gonna do anything drastic like get rid of my phone but I sure wish that they would consider their mid Atlantic users and get the show on the road!!!
So only the specified cities are getting hooked up or is that the calling area? I live an hr away from slc and wonder if I’m included in that?
Definitely not a a full list. It was simply a little article meant for employees to give them some idea of what was coming.
No love to reno/sparks?
@JReeves, that makes my day. Hopefully Cincinnati being left off the list was similar to the Omaha, Nevada typo.
No love for central CA? There is a huge gap that needs to be filled. I am disappointed.
Well the city I hail from, Columbus, OH, made the list. That’s all find and dandy but I go to school in Cincinnati so it looks like I’ll have 3G for the summer only *sigh* Hopefully Cincinnati gets some 3G love shortly down the road!
i got that email… its legit
Nothing for St. Louis, MO. What’s the deal. KCMO has been on 3G since Dec. 08. I thought TMO was rollowing out 3G based on market size and demand. Can you seriously tell me that:
Springfield, IL and
Wichita, KS and
Omaha, NE and
Columbus, OH
have a larger 3G market and demand than St. Louis, MO.
This is getting a little discouraging. Especially considering that Sprint is now starting to hype up 4G in their commercials on TV.
WOOT for south texas (laredo, mcallen, brownsville, and corpus christi!)
Woot! louisville! :]] finally!
hope okc is legit because i am ready
where is new orleans? Shreveport before New Orleans? WTF?
Kinda starting to lose patience with Tmo. I live a little north of San Diego, and I can’t get 3g. There is a large military base just north of me, but the only 3g is in San Diego. I’m not renewing unless they start lighting my area with 3g. Some of those cities that are on that list are retarded.
3G coverage around Manhattan is spotty…I lose signal as soon as I hit Stamford, CT headed home on the train to New Haven. The Connecticut coast sorely needs 3G–high population density, WTF??!?
I have been with tmo for 7 years now and love how loyal they are to me , but I do have one complaint and that is I can not use my phone {g1} to its fullist advantage and that is no 3 g in my area witch makes no sense beause I live in michigans second largest city {Grand Rapids} which is located at the point 3 different counties converge .That means there are at least I and ahalf million people living in this part of the state . That’s a lot of potential customers that end up going with other carriers for their 3g connections not to mention the tmo customers that are unhappy because they spent a lot of money for their 3g phones and can’t use them in the manner they were meant to be used and just out of curiosity I would like to know how many tmo customers finally gave up and did go to another carrier. Well I hope sombody at tmo reads this and wakes up to our needs and support our phones or should I say their phones !
I’m with you Jeff… CT needs 3G now!!
Rochester ny,i need rochester mn
I agree with Arthur. I have been with T-Mobile for 8 years and live in the Grand Rapids area. I have loved their customer service and prices. No one can hold a candle to the prices of T-Mobile but, man, tmo, get with the program. It seems I wait years to get the services I need and once I do awesome but, why do I have to wait YEARS for something? The iphone is looking better and better, my contract is up in a couple of months, maybe……
Can somebody Please explain to me what and/or Q4 means? It says Pittsburgh is getting 3G in Q4.
4th quarter for louisville ky, wtf, I have had my g1 since september patiently waiting for 3g, I was told louisville area would have 3g by feb or march, tmobile lied about that, if I had known it would have taken this long I would have stayed with at&t
Wow…still no Reno/Sparks in there huh..but Eugene, OR?…Ridiculous.
It is good T-Mobile is finally opening up a bit with the release time frame.
It makes planning for devices easier.
Also, on another note:
I’m racking my brains and can’t think of a metropolitan area more retarded than the area just north of San Diego. Help me out here. It burns, it shakes, it slides into the ocean, it has no fesh water resources it doesn’t steal from up north, it’s over crowded, the air is dirty, the weather sucks, its always the same, except when it rains. Help me out here – just what other city did the guy have in mind?
why no 3g in new orleans? with so many customers in such a small area to cover it is a real wonder. why some hillbilly in the desert in texas has 3g but none in the city of new orleans i will never know.