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T-Mobile to use AT&T's money to create rival LTE network

article published on 23 February, 2012

T-Mobile has announced today that it will invest the money it was just given by AT&T into building their own LTE network in 2013. Last year, after a failed takeover attempt, AT&T had to pay a $3 billion break-up fee and give T-Mobile USA $1 billion worth of AWS spectrum, as well. The carrier says it will use that new spectrum and the $3 billion to launch their own rival LTE network ... [ read the full article ]

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Mrguss
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_ 		24. February 2012 @ 01:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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_ 		24. February 2012 @ 10:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Cool, but I hope they also use some of the money to extend their network. It works better than AT&T and Verizon combined in some places...and other places have no signal at all where both AT&T and Verizon have 3G.

http://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/pcc.aspx
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I saw a map of the spectrum that ATT had to give. Its mostly on the west side and I think in the Florida area. I live in Ohio and have excellent service with AT&T and didn't see any spectrum being given to Tmobs in my area. The spectrum they gave didn't seem like an awful lot from the coverage map I viewed either.

But if T mobs is implementing 84 HSPA+ why even bother with LTE? it seems strong enough at that point.
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_ 		24. February 2012 @ 18:04 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The areas they are getting are the areas where they needed spectrum the most. T-Mobile has the rights to cover all of Ohio...they don't do it simply because someone did the math and figured out that they would make more money spending the money building towers somewhere else.

I think their goal with going to LTE is for the future. LTE is hardly being used right now...it is capable of up to 1gbps, and most providers are keeping it under 5mbps. There is a real future there. As for HSPA+, T-Mobile is doing pretty good against LTE at 5mbps, but the 12mbps limit of HSPA+ could really hold them back in a few years when everyone else starts offering 20mbps+.
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_ 		24. February 2012 @ 18:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I'm not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, the competition might make AT&T actually provide 4G at 4G speeds. But then again, they could just use the loss as an excuse to not...
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