Comments on: Conciderably Dissapointed in T-Mobile’s 3G in the USA http://www.techcraver.com/2008/05/07/considerabily-dissapointed-in-t-mobiles-3g-in-the-usa/ Craving tech, craving life! Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:34:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Steve http://www.techcraver.com/2008/05/07/considerabily-dissapointed-in-t-mobiles-3g-in-the-usa/#comment-758 Steve Thu, 08 May 2008 13:10:01 +0000 http://www.techcraver.com/?p=214#comment-758 What you said is sooo true. I waited for ages for TMo to begin a 3G service. Last Jan, I found out that they are rolling out a new spectrum, and that there was no chance I could expect an error free smooth 3G data service in the near future. None of the CSRs could tell anything, either on or off record. I jumped ship, and am now with ATT and life is BLISS with superfast 3G data. I am done with the trickling Tmo data, not even upto edge standard. Also, ATT gives rollover minutes, which Tmo never gave me. And I dont think the cell manufacturers can make three flavours for each of their phones. Take the case of Nokia, even they only have a couple of worthwhile handsets that can used with ATT. Now to think about the same thing repeated all over again for Tmo, no way, I dont think so. What this would mean, in the long term for TMobile is, lack of adequate handsets available, other than their subsidised ones, and a lot of unhappy customers. Unless they decide to port at least a good number of decent cellphones to their market. But I am not sure, their sales pitch still remains..."OOH.. Our phone carries a VGA camera...!!!, OOH.. MMS...!!!" kind of dumb deal. I understand your N81 being 2100 3G frequency, not being able to be used on ATT, but I guess it will work just fine for data using their EDGE. And guess what, ATT EDGE is still miles ahead of Tmo EDGE, and I could use skype and video streaming with reasonable good results. Once again, thanks for conveying the frustration that TMo users might be having right now, and all the same it emphasises the fact that I did the right choice, jumping over to ATT land. Regards Steve What you said is sooo true. I waited for ages for TMo to begin a 3G service. Last Jan, I found out that they are rolling out a new spectrum, and that there was no chance I could expect an error free smooth 3G data service in the near future. None of the CSRs could tell anything, either on or off record. I jumped ship, and am now with ATT and life is BLISS with superfast 3G data. I am done with the trickling Tmo data, not even upto edge standard. Also, ATT gives rollover minutes, which Tmo never gave me.

And I dont think the cell manufacturers can make three flavours for each of their phones. Take the case of Nokia, even they only have a couple of worthwhile handsets that can used with ATT. Now to think about the same thing repeated all over again for Tmo, no way, I dont think so. What this would mean, in the long term for TMobile is, lack of adequate handsets available, other than their subsidised ones, and a lot of unhappy customers. Unless they decide to port at least a good number of decent cellphones to their market. But I am not sure, their sales pitch still remains…”OOH.. Our phone carries a VGA camera…!!!, OOH.. MMS…!!!” kind of dumb deal.

I understand your N81 being 2100 3G frequency, not being able to be used on ATT, but I guess it will work just fine for data using their EDGE. And guess what, ATT EDGE is still miles ahead of Tmo EDGE, and I could use skype and video streaming with reasonable good results.

Once again, thanks for conveying the frustration that TMo users might be having right now, and all the same it emphasises the fact that I did the right choice, jumping over to ATT land.

Regards

Steve

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