TMobile HSPA+ rollout cities listed

[Pliablemoose]

T-Mobile just announced that they’re expanding their HSPA+ network faster than ever — now up to 25 major metropolitan cities. According to the information, over 75m people will be covered with super fast HSPA data speeds by the end of this month. T-Mobile is touting “4G speeds” in the following major cities:

• Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, Seattle, Tampa, Orlando, Pittsburgh, Charlotte, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Oklahoma City, Tusla, New Orleans, Charleston, New York, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Memphis, Upstate New York, Connecticut (shouts to CT), Providence, and Washington D.C.

Additionally, T-Mobile has a pretty solid lineup of devices that can take advantage of the increased data speeds. There is the webConnect Rocket USB data stick, and over 15 handsets. Here’s that listing:

• T-Mobile myTouch 3G
• Samsung Behold II
• Motorola CLIQ
• Garminfone
• T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide
• HTC HD2
• Nokia E73 Mode
• Motorola CLIQ XT
• T-Mobile Dash
• T-Mobile G1
• HTC Touch Pro2

Lastly, T-Mobile is aiming to cover 100 major metropolitan cities by the end of the year which will blanket over 185 million people with those beautiful “4G speeds”. Sounds good to us!

Woot, I've been waiting for this, it's a significant improvement in speed if your handset is capable of using HSPA+

 

[Phobic9]

Luckily for me I live in a shit part of the country (AKA Ohio) so I'd be surprised if I saw any goodness like that here.

Good news for T-Mo customers nevertheless.

 

[ponyo]

In Atlanta here. Haven't seen it yet. I'm using rooted myTouch 2.1.

 

[Cuda1447]

Tampa has been getting bursts of this over the last two weeks. Seems to be a lot more steady now. Download speeds around 3mb/sec on my Nexus one.

 

[Deeko]

I'm in Redmond, not Seattle proper, but I'm thinking we got it....according to Speakeasy, my HD2 is getting 5.67Mb down and 1.6 Mb up.

Not quite the theoretical speed, but still....that's about 5x faster than I was getting before.

 

[vshah]

this might explain why i saw 3.5mbps a couple weeks ago in DC

 

[Deeko]

Ran it again and grabbed a screen....not too bad for inside my office with only 2 bars!

PS - thanks, Internet Explorer, for letting me run that Flash app

 

[Xellos2099]

Man nothing at Chicago?

 

[Deeko]

hahah...I apparently had too much fun running that test over and over this morning:

Most recent activity

Date Time
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06/16/10 07:08 AM 58.5478

 

[theeedude]

WFT, no San Francisco or Silicon Valley? You would think they'd want to deploy all the goodies to the techies first, but we always have to wait for it.

 

[Deeko]

WFT, no San Francisco or Silicon Valley? You would think they'd want to deploy all the goodies to the techies first, but we always have to wait for it.

That's why I'm surprised it took them so long to get to Seattle. Not only do we have the Microsoft and Amazons of the world, its also T-Mobile's US headquarters!

But, that aside, I'm sure they have a few more customers in NYC and Philly....in addition to being larger cities, especially Philly is a cheaper place than San Fran. I bet T-Mobile has a higher percentage of customers there than it does in the bay area.

 

[sjwaste]

It's probably most advantageous to roll out first in areas where there is significant population density but your market share lags. It's a takeaway business, so you might as well try to churn someone else's customers in a market where you lag by ramping up there first.

 

[theeedude]

I don't think T-mobile market share is all that good in SF Bay Area, and there is high population density. Plus people are ditching them for Verizon, AT&T and even Sprint because they are basically a non-entity in the smartphone space. They are losing the tech shakers and movers from their customer base, so those people are going to target other networks with their designs, with T-mobile being an after-thought. For example, the Apple crew may be itching to get the iPhone to Verizon, but they probably couldn't give a flying sh!t about getting it to T-mobile.

 

[CTrain]

I don't know about you guys but for me, its not the speed that matters, its the consistancy.
T-Mobile is so damm spotty for. Cutting in and out.
Inisde my house, I can abrely get a 3G signal.
Supposeably HSPA+ is live here in Orlando.
Standing outside, I use IE to get flash and get up to 3.6mbps.
If it doesn't get better soon for me, I'm dumping T-mobile after 2 months.

 

[vshah]

hahah...I apparently had too much fun running that test over and over this morning:

haha...i run a few speed tests a day...i need to know...how fast is my network RIGHT HERE? :awe:

 

[Sentrosi2121]

I wonder what part of upstate NY this is in. Most people consider anything north of New York City upstate.

 

[Fox5]

I'm in the Baltimore area and Tmobile reception is great, better than ATT was. I occasionally see 3.5g speeds too. I don't think their phone selection (if you include unlocked phones and the cheaper plans) are bad, but they need to get an updated lineup out this Fall. 6 months behind the curve is ok, 9 or a full year would be pushing it. I guess their normal phone line up (cutting out Nexus One and Nokia N900) is pretty outdated.

Oh, they also had no reception in the MVA (Motor Vehicles Association), which kind of sucked, yet other people were able to use their phones, so I assume either Verizon or ATT has better building penetration.

 

[tdawg]

Just ran a speed test in downtown seattle and only managed 1.75Mbps down, .39Mbps up. This is on a Nexus One with Froyo.

 

[CurseTheSky]

Kinda surprised to see CT on there. At least where I am, it's not exactly a "populated" place, and even where it is, it still doesn't hold a candle to many other (unlisted) cities around the country. I guess us rich CT assholes demand the best!

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[vshah]

holy crap...look what I just got in NYC:

 

[IamDavid]

Wounder if when they say Dallas they mean all of DFW?? Sometimes compaies include it all as oe, others don't.. Sure hope they do!!

 

[Sentrosi2121]

Interesting article my co-worker saw this morning. But it makes sense for T-Mobile to expand their network now.
http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=16338&news=Apple+iPhone+4G+T-Mobile

 

[CTrain]

Well, as I've said before, its live here in Orlando and I don't see real world improvement.
Inisde my house(ucf area) it still switch back and forth edge/3g.
At work(disney), still edge.
Outside my house though I get 3.5mbps but do they expect me to be standing outside of house most of the time ??

 

[CTrain]

Well, I guess I'm changing my tune a little bit.
Was at another area of town and testing it standing outside.
Its super fast when I can get good 3G signals.

 

[vshah]

funny thing is, this is as fast as most sprint 4G tests i've seen, and usually even faster on the upload.