T-Mo To Double HSPA+ Speeds By 2011!

ap3604

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T-mobile is much better than Sprint because they aren't scumbags to their customers by charging an extra $10/mo just to nickel and dime them...
 

clickwir

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This can't come soon enough.

I was holding a HTC Incredible in one hand and my Nexus One in the other. Full bars on mine and only 2 bars on the Incredible. Site after site, the Incredible loaded faster. Ran SpeedTest on each and the Incredible did better each time.

I didn't think my N1 was slow by any means, but the Incredible was really quick in loading sites and general navigation.

My SpeedTests for my area never get above 1mbps down.
 

cdmove

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eh whatever.

how about just provide better 3G coverage everywhere?! HSPA+ is nice but they don't even have it where I live.
 

xguntherc

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Viva Las Vegas!
Where in Vegas? Im in North West and I normally get 3mb down and 2.5 up
Henderson, South East. I was getting over 4mb down every time, and I still get 1.3mb up no matter what.. it got faster on FroYo builds.

CM6 I dropped down to like 2.5 Mb/s and the same 1.3 Mb up. but a little tweaking got me back to about where I was.
 

y2whisper

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xguntherc what were the tweaks.

P.s. there won't be a huge speed increase mainly because there are few HSPA+ devices out there to take full advantage of this.
 

[IO]ERROR

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Nice.. I was up the mall the other day and asked the t-mobile people when can we expect faster speeds and she said they told her by end of 2010 beginning of 2011. I thought she was full of SH*T since we just got 3g a few months ago but it's listed as "Coming soon" on the coverage map. I can't wait..
 

thisguy10

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Dang, you guys are lucky. Im in North Las Vegas and my 3G goes back and forth but luckly i use wifi in my home. When im near the strip i get good speeds though. I hope they expand just alittle bit north though.
 

mp1963

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This is very funny. In the UK T-Mobile is so crappy I doubt we will be seeing any investment in new hardware over here!

Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App
 

DMaverick50

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i would much rather see tmobile get better coverage before 10mbps speeds.
Amen. I'm so sick of losing all data connection when I walk in a store. I enjoy tmobiles speed as is I just wish it would work regularly. And forget a road trip or any coverage between cities. Seems the main places I need a data connection are the places t-mobile doesn't cover. I don't need it around my house, I need it in stores and on the road. Off topic but I'm also waiting for google maps to be available offline that'd ease my concern a bit
 

xManMythLegend

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Im convinced its a myth.

Im in NYC and by all means should have it. I never get past 2mb in manhattan and easily drop to 2g in the boroughs.

You evidently have to be underneath a tower with a sattelite dish to get it here.
 

Ryjabo

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I call BS on this as well.

I'm lucky to see 3G at all. When I do see it (in areas other than where I live, where I rarely spend time), I've never hit above 300-400kbps.

As I sit here at work. No 3G... 65kbps.

I'll believe it when I see it.

Sprint already has 4G up here, too. My EVO friends rubbing it in my face.

It's awesome that I pay $160 a month for two Android phones on T-Mobile and don't even get close to the 3G coverage or connection speeds they're seeing.