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Cities affected by EDGE upgrade! 200kbps!
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better change title to be accurate, its
200kbps, i.e. 25kb/s, not 200kb/s, don't give ppl the false impression that the EDGE suddenly is 20 times faster.
maybe you should learn what you're talking about before you come in here screaming.
kb = kilobits
kB or KB = kilobytes
pretty standard...
the titles is fine the way it is.
Just because it's on Wikipedia, doesn't mean it's true -- see: Stephen Colbert's efforts to 'triple' the number of African Elephants in the wild.
You are correct. (And I can take an educated guess when you ilearned that.)
no, because I can get 190-200kbps all the time on my phone using EDGE. Didn't require some stupid phone to force the carrier to upgrade their network to what it should be
no, because I can get 190-200kbps all the time on my phone using EDGE. Didn't require some stupid phone to force the carrier to upgrade their network to what it should be
What you and I (and every other one of the 22-25 million T-Mo subscribers) need to be looking at is which service we're gonna move to once AT&T makes Deutsche Telekom an offer they can't refuse for their T-Mo USA subsidiary. I think that's the big cloud looming on the horizon.
Forgot about that.
It seems TMobile is always up for sale...
Prob. a another reason they could not meet apple's reqs.
They still buy leftover bandwidth from ATT?
(I just checked my tmobile bill. Looks like I will only have 2 days of charges till the move to the iphone. nice.)
Not gonna happen. For one, I don't think the FTC would even allow AT&T to have a monopoly on GSM here, and Deutsche Telekom has stated before that they're commited to T-Mobile USA. I think if anything happens (and that's a huge if), Vodafone will sell of their stake in Verizon Wireless and buy up T-Mobile, I'm sure they want their own GSM network in the US, rather than 45% ownership of a CDMA one that their customers can't even use when they come over here.
But, if it did happen, and we're left with AT&T, VZW and Sprint, I think I'd choose Sprint. They seem to be the lesser of the 3 evils.
T-Mobile's not up for sale. They've never been up for sale.
They probably couldn't meet Apple's reqs, because they told Apple to piss off when Apple wanted complete control over everything.
keep in mind the network might be bogged down tommorow night.
so just because EDGE is slow don't get pissed at your baby
-nickspohn
EDGE will always be slow
Build it and they will come...
I believe it really could be faster. I just don't see Apple allowing their iPhone to be hindered by ATT's network. Apple will be pressing for continued improvements in ATT's network just as they will be providing updates for the iPhone.
I believe I read recently that ATT was one of the lowest ranked networks. (Maybe not...) Regardless they are going to be making some major advances in their network (and apparently they already have) to be No.1 or No.2.
I'm excited. Can't wait to get an iPhone, can't wait to try ATT. I'm with Alltel right now and I couldn't have a worse product or carrier. Alltel has been the worst. Their customer service is also rotten.
Hello iPhone!
I believe it really could be faster. I just don't see Apple allowing their iPhone to be hindered by ATT's network. Apple will be pressing for continued improvements in ATT's network just as they will be providing updates for the iPhone.
I believe I read recently that ATT was one of the lowest ranked networks. (Maybe not...) Regardless they are going to be making some major advances in their network (and apparently they already have) to be No.1 or No.2.
I'm excited. Can't wait to get an iPhone, can't wait to try ATT. I'm with Alltel right now and I couldn't have a worse product or carrier. Alltel has been the worst. Their customer service is also rotten.
Hello iPhone!
