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Greetings fellow fone freaks,
is it possible to have a 3g phone connection in the U.S.A??? All i know is that 3g makes your internet much faster than the standard gprs. Thanks, let me know whatsup!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JL
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Posted: 2006-07-18 04:05:43
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In the US there are two 3G systems, Verizon's EVDO and Cingular's UMTS (not sure about T-mobile) based system. But please note there are no SE phones that work on EVDO or on the US UMTS bands, which are different from those in Europe. Also I understand in the US the GSM cell phones companies use EDGE, which can give download speed around a maximum of 115kbps. Again neither the M600 of the P990 can make use of EDGE.
Hopefully a member from the US could say a bit more about T-mobile's plans for UMTS.
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[ This Message was edited by: Jah on 2006-07-18 08:24 ]
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Posted: 2006-07-18 09:23:21
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At the momenet, T-Mobile in the USA only offers EDGE. However, on August 9th, the FCC is having an auction for bandwidth frequency licenses which will include 3G. I have read T-Mobile will be a strong bidder in this auction so that they can develop 3G to compete with Cingular. With any luck, they will acquire a license to develop UMTS on the 2100mhz frequency.
As you can see, the US has an ass-backwards system which makes early adopters suffer with GPRS/EDGE.
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Posted: 2006-07-18 09:36:55
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This may be of some help to you.
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Posted: 2006-07-18 13:46:51
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