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Who is T-Mobile USA CEO right now????????????????????????????????????????????
T-Mobile's First LTE Market Launching in 3 weeks!
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Whoever wrote should have been killed.
Who is T-Mobile USA CEO right now????????????????????????????????????????????
I'm in Brownsville Texas. I was with At&T for two years and still haven't seen LTE till this date. So not going to jump for joy for T-Mobile' LTE. Probably won't see it till in 3 years.
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The date on that story is an error, it's a year old. Not only has the 1900 spectrum already been mostly refarmed and the breakup spectrum from at&t already received, we're also getting additional aws spectrum in key markets from the metro merger in a few months. Plus (and this is my favorite part) Phillip Humm is no longer the CEO. Our current CEO is John Legere.
Seems like this is a Houston forum. Sugar Land here
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An LTE variant of the gs3?
The gs3 for T-Mobile is already LTE ready. Just needs a firmware update. Most of the s3s actually have a quad core s4 pro processor in them, using same board as standard s4 pro equipped devices. Only difference is the s3s with the quad core chips have the second two cores shut off - the registries which would have been used for the 3rd and 4th cores are just allocated for LTE radios. All it will be is a firmware update to utilize the radios.
Ever take a peek at your init.qcom.post_boot.sh file in your T-Mobile s3 when it was bone stock? Well I did. Because I had one. And you'll notice there are call outs for "cpu2" and "cpu3" in the code. Because the file is the same for all devices equipped with quad core - as most s3s are, even T-Mobile variants. Difference is the firmware to utilize or not utilize the extra cores. Qualcomm started making dual core chips/boards early on but quickly just started throwing quad core chips in all the devices to save money on production (cheaper to build one chip set than two) and just "turned off" the extra cores with a firmware patch and as I said allocated the registries to LTE radios.
We learned something today didn't we folks? Bet most people don't know their galaxy s IIIs have quad core chipsss... lol
Interestingly enough. If somebody could hack the firmware, the galaxy s3 could be a quad core Qualcomm device 0_o
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I don't have a problem with a quad core SGS3, but I do have a problem for the fact that T-Mo version doesn't have the needed LTE power amps and filters required for attaching to LTE Band 4. You can't software update that, you need a different logic board, which should be the same as AT&T's model since that one actually had support for AWS on WCDMA and was firmware disabled on the closed source baseband level.
So why are the registries allocated for LTE and why is the device equipped with LTE radios if it won't support LTE? Lol
What you are saying makes sense, from a technical standpoint. But not logically.
Also, ATT S3? Yeah, uses LTE. Same board. Same chip. So you are wrong. Lol
What you are saying makes sense, from a technical standpoint. But not logically.
Also, ATT S3? Yeah, uses LTE. Same board. Same chip. So you are wrong. Lol
Actually they have a different chip, I think the tmobile version doesn't support LTE but the note 2 does
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The next cycle or bak'tun will end in 26,000 years. So no sweat on that one
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You couldn't be more wrong. T-Mobile even just confirmed the GS3 will be LTE capable with a software update. LTE has been in tmo phones since the GS2.
Yeah well actually I'm right. ATT has a similar board, but it has proper Power Amps and Filters for LTE band 4, 17.
T-Mobile version doesn't. so there you have it.
The next cycle or bak'tun will end in 26,000 years. So no sweat on that one
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You couldn't be more wrong. T-Mobile even just confirmed the GS3 will be LTE capable with a software update. LTE has been in tmo phones since the GS2.
Ummm thank you. Finally.
And whoever said the ATT and T-Mobile s3 have "different chips" couldn't have been more wrong either.
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Cool let's see some documentation to support that, then. Because when I bought my T-Mobile s3 back in July, when I worked for T-Mobile, they told us the s3 was going to support their LTE roll out.
Also, go ahead and explain why the ATT s3 was designed to support LTE but the T-Mobile version was not when both companies had clearly outlined plans to implement such a network. And both devices are exactly identical on a hw level. The only thing varying is the firmware.
Go ahead I'll wait for your reply with proof because you won't have any whatsoever. You are sorely misinformed.
Technical documents. About the T-Mobile s3. From Samsung, from Qualcomm, from T-Mobile. Wherever you can dig them up.
We'll all wait anxiously. In the meantime T-Mobile has confirmed otherwise to me (and other employees of mine who purchased the device) and others on this board who have owned the device.
Again, correction, you are WRONG. deal with it.
Howdy to you as well. Btw, thats the first time I used "howdy" ever. Im originally from NJ
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T-Mobile’s LTE Launch In Las Vegas Will Be Followed With Kansas City
http://www.tmonews.com/2013/01/t-mobiles-lte-launch-in-las-vegas-will-be-followed-with-kansas-city/
http://www.tmonews.com/2013/01/t-mobiles-lte-launch-in-las-vegas-will-be-followed-with-kansas-city/
Seems you couldn't be more wrong...
They did confirm it however, not on the current batch of GS3's.
" ...the new version of the Galaxy S III will require a “small” software update to enable once the company’s LTE network is live."
If the current GS3 could do this why bring out a LTE version?
http://www.tmonews.com/2013/01/t-mobile-announces-revamped-galaxy-s-iii-with-lte/
"Though the Galaxy S III that's presently being offered by T-Mobile does not support LTE, the slightly newer Galaxy Note II does; Ray tells us that it'll require a "small" software update to enable it once it's available. No other LTE-capable phones have been announced by T-Mobile yet, but it's likely that we'll see some announcements as the first markets go live across the first and second quarter of the year."
http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/8/38...aunch-refreshed-galaxy-s-iii-with-lte-support
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The next cycle or bak'tun will end in 26,000 years. So no sweat on that one
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You couldn't be more wrong. T-Mobile even just confirmed the GS3 will be LTE capable with a software update. LTE has been in tmo phones since the GS2.
Good Info I didn't know that, I thought tmobile was launching a gs3 with LTE on it, idk read it somewhere
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2Loss Wages getting some LTE love... SOON!
http://www.tmonews.com/2013/01/t-mo...arket-launch-happening-before-end-of-january/2
What do you want me to share? Only engineers and small number of employees have provisioned accounts and devices for LTE access at this point. But that's the new T-Mobile's LTE logo!Care to share?
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Try typing speedtest into the search box at the Play Store. You could be surprised what you will find if you actually look for something.
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