T-Mobile laughs at iPhone 4′s lack of 4G

By on Feb 28, 2011 at 1:00 PM
mobile February 28, 2011

At this point, it’s looking like few people actually care about T-Mobile’s “4G” network, real or fake. The carrier continues to push its HSPA+ network online and in television commercials as the main selling point versus the competition. Despite its 4G ad campaign, however, T-Mobile shed 318,000 contract customers last quarter while iPhone sales were through the roof. But “the iPhone 4 is a 3G phone,” T-Mobile proclaims in its State of the Smartphone report. “True story. Despite the ’4′, both the Verizon and AT&T iPhones run on 3G networks,” the carrier adds. We’re not sure when this massive 4G push might start to pay off, but we sure hope it happens soon because the nation’s No.4 carrier is starting to look a bit silly.

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  • Anonymous

    “T-Mobile laughs at iPhone 4′s lack of 4G… while everyone else laughs at T-Mobile’s lack of 3G”

  • http://twitter.com/brian_wolf brian_wolf

    To bad the 4 does not stand for 4G nor the device never claimed to be. Just 4th generation.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CZVXLJBYQG3N6GHYYRRWGCDROI Dont ask Dont tell

    Yeah Spring is definitely the nigger cell phone company of the USA! Remember when cell phones first started getting popular with regular folks…back when they were “Spring PCS!?” Niggers have always remained with Spring, however I do agree that T-Mobile is somewhat ghetto-fied but they can’t lay a mother fucking hand on Spring lol!

    Damn fuckin niggers!

    • Anonymous

      Get the hell outta here!! First of all It’s Sprint* and 2nd T-Mobile was way more ghetto, back when everybody was fiendin for sidekicks and unlimited texting.

    • Petey

      Lmao… is that what y’all ghetto people call sprint…”spring”?

      Its sprint not spring. U must be hella ghetto yourself to call it “spring”

  • E-flo

    The general public, again, shows their ignorance. As of December ITU, the people that said no US carrier had true 4g, redefined their 4g qualifications. 4g now also includes HSPA+, WiMax, and LTE. This means all 4 major US carriers have 4g. If you want to make a claim that Tmobile doesn’t have a true 4g network, I challenge you to present any “current” information to challenge their claim. Even if you want to go off the old ITU standard for 4g, WiMax and LTE were not included either, making Tmobile no less accurate than Verizon and Sprint in the claim.

  • Neoofthesith

    I laugh at T-Mobile’s lack of true 4G.

  • http://twitter.com/Dodgerblue Dodgerblue

    My cousin has T Mobile my touch 4G and we are in an HSPA+ area. I have AT&T iPhone 4 I always have 3G and he is constantly on edge not even 3G. Sorry I will stay with the best network AT&T. I have had all carriers so I can judge that from experience.

    • Senor Chang

      More power to you then. Where I live, Tmo 3G is consistent and solid. I don’t have an HSPA+ phone though to comment on the ’4g’. I also know that Sprint users where I live, for the longest time, had the WORST reception. I don’t know any Sprint customers anymore, so maybe its changed… but whenever someone had to ‘go outside to get a signal’, we knew they had Sprint.

  • Senor Chang

    I don’t think the general consumer really gives a shit about any G’s. This is Tmo’s folly in thinking that the general consumer knows what the geek fanboys know… they don’t. All they care about is ‘its new’. Tmo would do better to state actual speed comparison numbers than to go on about 3G and 4G.

    Its like those Verizon VS At&t commercials… it didn’t really seem like either were trying to appeal to consumers, only to their geek spectators and themselves.

  • Chargerman165

    I’m just gonna say that I would rather have my Iphone 4 Verizon phone (not 4g, but 3g) and my Droid X Verizon phone (also 3g) than anything Tmobile has to offer because I can do what they are met to do and that is TALK on them about anywhere I am.

  • Sdot

    # 4 Carrier – lmao

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the detailed explanation. T-Mobile is significantly cheaper than all other major carriers including 4s. 4s has recently had some price increases primarily to collect all smartphone users to not only users 4G fee of $ 10.

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