T-Mobile expands 4G HSPA+ network to 10 new markets, speed boost coming soon

By on Apr 5, 2011 at 9:33 AM
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T-Mobile on Tuesday announced that its 4G HSPA+ network is now available in 10 new markets including Ames, Iowa; Anderson, Indiana; Battle Creek, Benton Harbor and Jackson, Michigan; Fort Collins-Loveland, Colorado; Lawrence and Manhattan, Kansas; Springfield, Illinois and Wichita Falls, Texas. T-Mobile also reaffirmed that it will soon double the speed of its 4G network from 21Mbps to a theoretical download speed of 42Mbps in Las Vegas, New York and Orlando. Chicago, Long Island, N.Y. and Northern New Jersey are scheduled to get the speed boost shortly after, and the carrier says it hopes to deliver those speeds to more than 140 million Americans in 25 markets by mid-year. T-Mobile’s 4G network now covers 167 U.S. markets and more than 200 million people nationwide. Hit the jump for the full release.

T-Mobile Welcomes New Markets to America’s Largest 4G Network

Today, T-Mobile USA announced the continued expansion of its nationwide 4G mobile broadband network to 10 new markets. America’s Largest 4G Network now reaches 167 markets and more than 200 million people nationwide – offering a 4G experience to even more of its customers where they live, work and play.

New 4G markets include Ames, Iowa; Anderson, Indiana; Battle Creek, Benton Harbor and Jackson, Michigan; Fort Collins-Loveland, Colorado; Lawrence and Manhattan, Kansas; Springfield, Illinois and Wichita Falls, Texas. A complete list of all the markets where T-Mobile’s 4G network is live can be found online at http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/articles/4g-fact-sheet.

With nationwide 4G and a great selection of 4G devices, including the Samsung Galaxy S™ 4G, T-Mobile® myTouch® 4G, T-Mobile®, Dell™ Streak™ 7, as well as the upcoming T-Mobile® G-Slate™ with Google™ by LG and T-Mobile Sidekick® 4G™ by Samsung, T-Mobile customers can upload videos and pictures to their favorite social media sites, get directions and stream video – and more – all while on the go.

Additionally, in 2011, T-Mobile is doubling the speed of its 4G network to achieve a theoretical download speed of 42 Mbps. T-Mobile customers in Las Vegas, New York and Orlando, Fla., are the first in the country to experience the increased 4G speeds (HSPA+ 42), followed closely by Chicago and further expansion of the New York network into Long Island, N.Y., and Northern New Jersey. By mid-year, T-Mobile expects more than 140 million Americans in over 25 markets to have access to these increased 4G speeds.

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  • Johnny Wishbone

    I don’t want to say Goodbye to T-Mobile……..I hope the merger doesn’t go through, so they can get the $3 Billion and some AWS Spectrum from AT&T

    • Johnny Wishbone

      By the way……..I’m 1st lol

      • http://twitter.com/SParKlngCyaNide SparklingCyanide

        Johnny, why’d you have to ruin a perfectly good comment? lol

      • Johnny Wishbone

        Lol, my bad…….I had too, it just wouldn’t be right if I didn’t

      • http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

        You all need to stop using LOL.

      • Johnny Wishbone

        Norm…..You’re lame

      • TruthBeTold

        actually…your not. only an idiot would post this anyways

      • Anonymous

        Calling someone else an idiot when you can’t get “you’re” right?

        For shame.

    • Bullet Tooth Tony

      T-Mobile has far more AWS spectrum than AT&T and it’s nationwide vs AT&T west of the Mississippi coverage, so be careful what you wish for… it’s where they’re deploying HSPA.

  • Anonymous

    Was this on Consumer iReports, too????

  • http://twitter.com/SParKlngCyaNide SparklingCyanide

    <3 you T-Mobile keep it up, they're gonna make out so well w/ this Merger doesn't happen. 3 Billion dollars and all that Spectrum is Awesome.

  • Wokamanbizness

    does anyone know if our current 3g+ heafseats can handle this speed or would we need to purchase new phones?

    • Anonymous

      Depends on what you mean by 3g+ …

    • Anonymous

      Your phone can’t achieve 42mbps. I believe 14mbps is max.

      • Anonymous

        Unless you a galaxy S 4G, which maxes out at 21Mbps.

      • KCRic

        And the Mytouch 4G. Any phone that uses 7.2, 14.4, or 21.1 Mbps will still see a benefit though. It will bring you closer to the max speed your phone is capable of.

  • Dman

    How about T-mo starts talking avarage speeds, as 42 Mbps is not likely to happen unless your standing under a tower with no traffic.

    • http://twitter.com/SParKlngCyaNide SparklingCyanide

      Average Speeds of 42mbps will be 25 to 30 real world speeds.

      • Dman

        That seems a tad high, taking into account multiple devices on the network, my touch 4g/ G2/galaxsy 4g/ MBB usb modems ect/ all useing bandwidth. I would be surprised to see hspa+ exceed that of 10-12Mbps this also be due higher latency in hspa+ wich about 100 ms .

      • Dman

        That seems a tad high, taking into account multiple devices on the network, my touch 4g/ G2/galaxsy 4g/ MBB usb modems ect/ all useing bandwidth. I would be surprised to see hspa+ exceed that of 10-12Mbps this also be due higher latency in hspa+ wich about 100 ms .

  • GADGETGIRL00

    pls tmobile still rocking EDGE AND 4G IS NOT REALLY 4G SPEED

    • http://twitter.com/SParKlngCyaNide SparklingCyanide

      well that may be your experience but mine is experience is amazing. I get 4 to 11mbps speeds regularly with bursts of 12. Sucks for you tho.

    • Gqube05

      My G2 gets 9mbs dl … my roomates evo gets 4….so u tell me who’s 4g and who isnt

  • Anonymous

    I don’t see the point of this. This merger is destined to go through because of AT&T lobbying.

    • Drew

      In dealing with this you can’t have an “AT&T sit-on-your-ass” mentality. That’s why they’re (AT&T) in the predicament they’re in, in the first place. By being lazy. Instead of using their own money to build out on their own, they take the lazy way out and try to buy towers and spectrum from another wireless company. Lazy and late for the party. They need to get out of the wireless business and go back to just offering long distance services on LAN lines. Pathetic fucks..!!!

  • Anonymous

    and if the merger with at&t goes through, won’t all this not matter, because at&t will just take tmobile’s spectrum and change it to LTE.

  • Anonymous

    Should be quite interesting to see how that turns out.

  • CingularUser1

    They’ve been using the “more than 200 million people,” line since last year despite the constant new markets they claim to launch. That means that these new rollouts are to really insignificant areas with low population.

    T-Mobile’s native network (without roaming) covers over 263 million POPS. I wish they would have just finished their HSPA + launch across its entirety. Instead they’ve just done a few patches here and there leaving gaping GPRS only holes inbetween.

    AT&T has a bad record of integrating networks without causing havoc. I expect dropped calls galore and massive outages when they try to integrate T-Mobile users to their existing network while refarming AWS for LTE. It makes my head sick just thinking about it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/eurekapc Carl Bloor

    For christ sake, I’m still waiting for frikkin 3G !!!!
    Seriously, get yer shit together cos as much as i hate big red right now (verizon) at least they get good service and 3g speeds at my house :-/
    Fuck sake, Maine gets the shitty end of the stick every time.

  • Ennui84

    GOOGLE should buy Tmo :( I don’t want AT&T to get it’s grubby hands on it!

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    woww with 4G network your download speed are 42 Mbps thats an interesting news.

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