Comments on: Welcome to 3G Bloomington & Lafayette Indiana

By: Travis

Travis — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:10:51 +0000

And Elkhart, Osceola, Mishawaka, Notre Dame, etc… I was told by two people from T-Mobile corporate and the supervisor of the 3g project in South Bend that it would be done almost 5 weeks ago. The reason we missed out Q3 rollout date in South Bend is because of “financial” issues the first time according to the supervisor I talked to. He told me that he stopped getting paid so his crew stopped working. Hope that didn’t happen again.

By: Ecstatic

Ecstatic — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:34:10 +0000

Typo – that should be 380 up.

By: Ecstatic

Ecstatic — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:20:10 +0000

Lafayette, LA just woke up to 3G goodness! I only have 2 bars, but the initial speed test resulted in 570 down and 180 up, which is a substantial improvement over the E.

By: Sigh

Sigh — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:56:41 +0000

Still patiently waiting for 3G in Jack-town, MS. Sure would be a nice Christmas present!

By: Grr

Grr — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:55:15 +0000

Its pretty simple actually, phone makers do not want to put the time in to add it to phones. The only company that will continue to add UMA is RIM. Motorola, Nokia, Sony, Samsung….they all do not want to put it into their phones. UMA is officially dead.

By: ziggenzag

ziggenzag — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:28:02 +0000

The west side has had 3g for about 3 months or so which is great for when I’m at work…and can get a stable connection. I was baffled that Tmobile would blanket Purdue’s campus (which has widespread wifi anyway) and even the airport FFS with 3g and yet the flagship tmo store in Lafayette still did not have 3g until thanksgiving!!! I bet the store was stoked to be able to slang 3g phones without all the caveats like not actually having 3g available in the area. The coverage is still spotty for me especially on the levee and in my neighborhood by St. Elizabeth. Coverage is way better in Chicago and Indy but I’m glad the love is spreading. Now if only they could flip the switch on 21Mbps speed, that would really rock my ass and I might cough up the dough for a 2nd or 3rd gen android device for fear that my chunky little g1 would melt with that kind of speed on its ancient hardware if its even possible.

By: jtomm

jtomm — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:49:28 +0000

how does louisville and cincy not have 3g yet? and even worse, why cant t-mobile tell me a projected date? i want a new smart phone but am not going to buy until i can use it the way it was designed to be used. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR (the sound of my frustration)i want to give them my money but they are saying no thanks. wth?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:05:52 +0000

I live in Lafayette, Indiana and I just noticed that wednesday I woke up to a 3G signal on my G1. I thought I was dreaming or maybe my phone needed a reboot. But sure enough, it was a 3G signal. I checked it with a quick Youtube test and it was the real deal. T-mobile rocks!

By: mmaxsooner

mmaxsooner — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:56:41 +0000

Beastly. All is forgiven, although I did get excited for a min tho. Rush outside reboot 9700 wait for it wait for it doh. EDGE. OUCH

By: beastly

beastly — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:58:45 +0000

@Sooner,
D’oh! I wrote Tulsa but meant Topeka. Forgive me?