Mike_
join:2003-06-24
Fort Lauderdale, FL
| reply to expert007
Re: The best part
Bah, yeah shes the only good part. Its still beyond me why t-mobile would pick a 3g spectrum (1700) that no one in the world uses. Stuck with proprietary phones locked only to them.
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ISurfTooMuch
join:2007-04-23
Tuscaloosa, AL
| The reason is simple: a lack of bandwidth. In many places, they only have 10 MHz of PCS spectrum, and it takes a minimum of 10 MHz to deploy UMTS/HSDPA, so if they deployed in the PCS band, they'd have to completely turn off GSM, which isn't an option. Therefore, they had to choose another band in which they could get a license. The Euro 2100 MHz 3G band was out because it's already in use for other things, so that meant they'd have to bid on spectrum in an upcoming auction, which just happened to be the AWS auction, which is why they're using that band. |
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Gbcue
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join:2001-09-30
Santa Rosa, CA
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| reply to Mike_
said by Mike_  :Its still beyond me why t-mobile would pick a 3g spectrum (1700) that no one in the world uses. Stuck with proprietary phones locked only to them. When AT&T did their buying of spectrum, 850MHz was used by nobody else either. Slowly more phones have had the band and almost all do.
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