Saturday, December 24, 2005
T-Mo on the Grow
Posted by Jon Westfall in "NEWS" @ 06:00 AM
"T-Mobile USA has big plans for 2006, the company told BetaNews in an interview on Thursday. The carrier intends to complete the rollout of GSM 850, which has boosted its coverage area by nearly 40 percent, and finally establish its long-awaited 3G network. T-Mobile also believes it could top Verizon in Consumer Reports rankings of quality service. The biggest benefit of GSM 850 would be increased coverage, mainly throughout the central part of the United States. However, the rollout would also include rural areas of the Northeast and West. Altogether, nearly 400,000 square miles of new coverage has been added during 2005, according to the carrier. ... Eventually, T-Mobile's coverage map would be practically identical to Cingular's, erasing the advantage its rival and others like Sprint-Nextel and Verizon have over the nation's fourth largest carrier."
T-mobile is growing faster than anyone would have guessed. When I started with them in late 2002, my coverage map looked pretty much like the one above - just with WAY fewer 'green' spaces and a lot more white. 3G by 2007, GSM 850, seems like they're bound and determined to erase the "Can you hear me now" advantage of their bigger brothers. Go T-Mo ;)
T-mobile is growing faster than anyone would have guessed. When I started with them in late 2002, my coverage map looked pretty much like the one above - just with WAY fewer 'green' spaces and a lot more white. 3G by 2007, GSM 850, seems like they're bound and determined to erase the "Can you hear me now" advantage of their bigger brothers. Go T-Mo ;)
