T-Mobile’s faster Internet coming to California, says report
February 10th, 2010, 3:50 pm · 2 Comments · posted by Tamara Chuang, a.k.a. The Gadgetress
Noted: T-Mobile is giving existing customers another reason to stay on with the company: 21 mbps download speeds, according to GigaOm’s .
While Higginbotham’s interview with T-Mobile’s vice president of engineering Dave Mayo didn’t confirm that California would be first to get the faster High Speed Packet Access technology, or HSPA+, Mayo said that T-Mobile is upgrading its HSPA software ”major cities” along the California Coast, says the report.
Higginbotham theorizes that this could come as soon as the middle end of 2010 since T-Mobile is waiting for more devices that can handle the speeds. Currently, it has 10.
This isn’t quite 4G mobile wireless. It’s more of an advanced 3G network. AT&T has been upgrading its 3G network to HSPA software, which offers up to 7.2 Mbps. T-Mobile, meanwhile, has also been testing HSPA+ in Philadelphia.
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Funny thought — are we reaching a point where your mobile phone could be your next cable modem?
Wifi routers already exist that allow you to plug in a mobile broad band card. The limiting factor is spectrum, of which there is precious little allocated to wireless providers (although the FCC has recently allocated more). A large band is still allocated for over the air tv, which could be cut into more, otherwise you have to cut into emergency service bands, which are used very inefficiently and have plenty to spare. The big problem with reallocating spectrum is that it kills any devices designed to use them, before the reallocation. So police and fire communication systems would need to be redesigned to use the narrower band at tax payer expense. But…if wireless providers could work a deal to buy the spectrum from the emergency service providers that would help pay for their communications upgrades.