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Which Carrier Has The Nations Largest FourGee Network?

AT&T has launched a new battle in the “4G” marketing wars with their very own claim that they have the nations largest 4G network. AT&T’s argument works to combine their new LTE presence with their HSPA+ network to support the size of their 4G network. AT&T’s marketing efforts began this Sunday and it’s in contrast to both Verizon and T-Mobile also arguing they have the nations largest 4G networks. It’s a little laughable … [read full article]

T-Mobile Announces The Galaxy S Blaze 4G, Expands HSPA+ Network To 12 More Cities

T-Mobile is announcing at CES the addition of its next 4G smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G, their third HSPA+ 42Mbps capable smartphone. The Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G will feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 processor running a 1.5GHz dual-core CPU, Super AMOLED display. The Galaxy S Blaze 4G is expected to be available sometime later this year, like most every phone announced at CES. Additional details will follow closer to availability, … [read full article]

T-Mobile’s Chief Executive On The Record With The New York Times

T-Mobile’s Chief Executive Officer is on the hot-seat for the folks at the New York Times answering some hard hitting questions about AT&T, T-Mobile USA and the future. T-Mobile CEO Philip Humm insists that T-Mobile will keep the value plans that exchange a lower monthly fee for selling you an unsubsidized device. While many of you have yet to see the benefit of this type of rate plan, given what … [read full article]

T-Mobile Follows Up On January Promise, Launches 25 4G Devices In 2011

T-Mobile announced just a short while ago the completion of a mission promised all the way back on January 6th, 2011 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. During the T-Mobile keynote, CEO Philip Humm announced that T-Mobile would launch 25 HSPA+ devices in 2011 and they’ve done exactly that. Furthermore, T-Mobile promised at least some of those devices would run on the 42Mbps HSPA+ network and they’ve achieved that with … [read full article]

Editorial: Why T-Mobile Should And Will Deploy LTE (The Technical Edition)

In the comments of the article about the analyst positing $9 billion for LTE deployment, many people were puzzled on why everyone is so focused on T-Mobile needing to deploy LTE. The obvious marketing answer is that everyone else has it, so T-Mobile needs to be competitive and deploy it to be able to say that they’ve got it too. By itself, that is an incredibly stupid reason to spend billions of … [read full article]

HTC Amaze 4G Speed Test Caught On Video

We’ve been hoping to see more of the HTC Amaze 4G on video and thanks to one lucky individual our hopes have been met if only to see speed tests and quadrant scores. If you’ve been itching like we have since the Amaze 4G announcement to see how it would perform on T-Mobile’s HSPA+ 42Mbps network than pay close attention to the video. These tests are coming straight out of Chicago (next year Cubbies) … [read full article]

T-Mobile Confirms Arrival Of Galaxy Tab 10.1″ Tablet

T-Mobile’s tablet news is coming on strong today with the announcement via Twitter/Facebook the upcoming arrival of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1″. That’s about all we learned as T-Mobile promised to unveil “more details in the coming weeks on this awesome tablet.” We’ve been saying this one has been on the roadmap for some time so we can’t say we’re really surprised but the timing of the Tweet right after the Amazon … [read full article]

T-Mobile Galaxy S II Arriving With AT&T-Compatible UMTS/HSPA+ Bands?

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a T-Mobile device come listed as a Quad-band 4G device giving us that the time may have finally arrived that a future proof device is available on the T-Mobile network. When T-Mobile originally posted the G2x on T-Mobile.com it was also listed as a Quad-band device but unfortunately the release saw it a dual-band AWS only device. We’re playing the same game this time around … [read full article]

T-Mobile Announces Sonic 4G Hotspot, T-Mobile’s Fastest Hotspot

Last but certainly not least of T-Mobile’s three major product announcements today is the Sonic 4G Mobile Hotspot. Ready to take on the world using T-Mobile’s HSPA+ 42Mbps network the Sonic 4G can connect up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices. Brought to us by the folks at Huawei this little hotspot weighs in only 3.88 ounces making it perfect for a pocket or purse. As an extra bonus the Sonic 4G Mobile Hotspot … [read full article]