Bittersweet news, T-Mobile fans. The carrier has announced at MWC that they are abandoning plans to rollout ridiculously fast 84 Mbps 3G HSPA+ service. In stead, the carrier is going to put all of their eggs in the LTE basket. The move isn’t really surprising. While the nation’s 4th largest carrier (by a long shot) has continued to ring higher and higher speeds out of a seemingly outdated cellular technology, LTE has far more leg room at this point. Also, the...
T-Mobile has long been the underdog, the ugly step child, the black sheep of the cellular world. Their coverage isn’t all that great outside of cities and speeds are pretty lackluster too. An acquisition with AT&T was supposed to change that. Thankfully it fell through. But now T-Mobile is facing what to do moving forward. Their 3 biggest competitors either already have a robust LTE network in place (Verizon) or are in the beginning stages of rollout (Sprint)....
Poor, poor Randall Stephenson (AT&T CEO). It seems that after he failed to successfully acquire T-Mobile U.S.A., the shareholders and directors have decided to trim $2.08 million from his take home pay by way of a smaller cash bonus and reduced stock. Even with the cut in income, Stephenson still garnered ~$18+ million in 2011 – no small chunk of change. Of course, his loss is much less than AT&T’s $4.2 billion payment to T-Mobile as part of their...
Excited for the latest BlackBerry 7 hardware? *Crickets* Well, if you’re one of the few people that are, BlackBerry is poised to wow you come March 15th with some new hardware for T-Mobile users. The invite sent out above doesn’t detail anything more than the event’s exclusive client list, but does elude “what’s next”. The “7″ logo and previous comments from RIM saying that BlackBerry 10 devices are at least 6 months away...
Curious as to just how much spectrum T-Mobile is walking away with thanks to AT&T’s failed attempt to take them over? GigaOM reader Andrew Shepherd whipped up the handy map you see above, complete with each and every market T-Mobile is gobbling up. That said, residents of the west coast should begin noticing better T-Mobile service in the not too distant future — that is if T-Mobile does in fact make use of the spectrum and doesn’t sit on it for some...
