Can you feel it, T-Mobile customers? There's a change in the air, and come next Tuesday we'll all find out exactly how the fourth-placed U.S. carrier plans to claw its way back in the months to come.
AllThingsD reported Monday that T-Mobile USA will be holding a media event on Tuesday, March 26 in New York City, where the company will lay out its future and more immediately, its big plans for 2013.
"We're still a wireless company," the invitation reads. "We're just not going to act like one anymore."
The invite certainly reads like the company will finally detail its full "un-carrier" plans for breaking the subsidized device shackles, which has been widely expected for the first quarter of this year.
The carrier also recently announced it would get the iPhone at long last, although it seems likely they would wait until this year's model arrives before touting that deal any further.
One thing very likely to be announced is the company's 4G LTE rollout, which is already said to be ready to go in Las Vegas and Kansas City -- all that remains is T-Mobile flipping the switch to make it available to customers.
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March 19, 2013 at 3:44pm
Besides the 're-surfacing' of T-Mumble's face to actually be a viable provider of wireless services (a carrier), IF they announce their 4g/LTE and the ever elusive (for T-Mumble) iPhone, they better have their lawyers handy. Now that T-Mumble has LIED already about their 're-farming' efforts and the high-speed that effort provided to iPhone users on their network..NOT.
I live in an area south of LA that T-Mumble swears it has reframed for their new 1900 MHz offering for iPhones. I supposedly was covered by that effort so I decided to test it and find out. Since the ONLY new T-Mumble tower for the 45,000-odd prospects/customers in my area was mounted on top of a bar 2 miles from my place, I sat in their parking lot and tested the speed of that single tower... 11.0k download - 2.5 k upload... To T -Mumble servers 35 miles away. NOT WHAT WAS ADVERTISED.
Driving to my place 2 miles away, I was amazed further by the blistering 2G/Edge speed of their network that couldn't reach that extra half-mile...
IF you plan on moving to T-Mumble with an iPhone OR getting one from them, FORCE THEM TO COMMIT TO 4G/LTE speeds, in writing, or walk away.
