T-Mobile has announced that its Wideband LTE network is now live in the greater New York City metro area. The technology allows customers on LTE to attain speeds in excess of 100 Mbps.
The Uncarrier stated that the Wideband LTE network is now available for all customers in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, Long Island and Northern NJ, with Westchester County (including White Plains and Scarsdale) as well as Central New Jersey set to be added soon.
T-Mobile is also expanding its Wideband LTE network coverage to 26 markets, and has stated that more markets will be added in 2015. You can see if you city is in the list of metros covered by the Wideband LTE technology by heading over to the carrier's website from the link below.
Source: T-Mobile
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T-Mobile's Wideband LTE network goes live in New York City
If there's any article that deserves it, it's this one:
Seems faster.
Nice, new phone needed, I presume?
At least a snapdragon 400+, the S4s won't support it.
Was that tested?
In between New York and L.A. is a little place I like to call America!
8 metros listed in Alabama on the docket. That make you happy?
Yes, this time.
Noticed Fort Lauderdale, FL on the list. YEAH!!
Its sad when a phone speed is greater than actual home speeds. Yet those cable companies are against net neutrality because they don't want to actually offer any real speeds.
If it was truly unlimited and in my area I would dump my cable internet provider and just tether my wifi.
+1520
This has nothing to do with Net Neutrality. The only companies for getting the government involved are those who want the government to help their businesses and punish their competitors. Net Neutrality = Crony Capatilism. As with every example where the government wades into private enterprise, the unintended consequences and inevitable taxes that come from government involvement will assure that Net Neutrality is ulitmately, very, very, very bad for consumers.
No the cable companies want total control of the internet. There job is to provide access to the internet. They are not the internet themselves so should never be allowed to delegate access speeds to anyone site. Regardless of what that site is. They need to up there structure not keep it in the stone age. My comment also never said this was because of net neutrality. It was a comment on what I would do to get rid of needing to pay the cable companies if this was in my area.
You (WebColin70) are very misinformed about what Net Neutrality is all about.
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Sorry, Dennis, not so. I'm afraid you've bought the Google (really their YouTube subsidiary) and Netflix spin. Like most businesses, they are just looking out for their best interests -- a free Internet pipe to their customers. Understandably, they fear that the pipe builders (mainly phone and cable companies like Verizon and Comcast) will throttle or charge for their traffic if millions of users start streaming 4K videos. To help get government to step in and remove that risk, they've waged a massing PR campaign that has predictably but sadly tricked a lot of ignorant people like you who don't have the full story or the broader context of what happens if they get their way.
The problem has nothing to do with their goal of maximum bandwidth to customers. The problem is the means they are trying to take to accomplish it. As soon as government gets involved and provides any regulation, the Internet as we know it will begin to change. It might not change with the first law passed, but once that door is open, history gives a clear picture of what happens next -- further regulation, new bureaucracy to manage the regulations (possibly part of the FCC, possibly a new department), taxes, etc. Innovation on the infrastructure side that has seen speed increases from 1200 baud modems to as high as gigabit speeds all in a generation will grind to a halt. Innovation occurs fastest when entrepreneurs are free to do what they do. Regulations only serve to protect the existing big players.
If you believe otherwise, you are either a shill for one of the companies like Netflix, or, more likely, just completely ignorant of the history of what has happened EVERY SINGLE TIME GOVERNMENT STICKS ITS NOSE into business activities. This isn't something that happens sometimes, or in rare instances, it's what happens EVERY TIME we citizens open the door to regulation.
Will this help make their service better in general?
I believe this is just merging classic T-Mobile spectrum with spectrum acquired from MetroPCS, at the same high-band frequencies as before, so unfortunately no. What will make service better is the impending rollout of MBS (700MHz) spectrum. MBS will help make their service better in general, for people with devices that support band 12. Not many devices support band 12 yet, and T-Mobile doesn't yet have MBS spectrum everywhere, and can't yet roll it out everywhere they have it due to channel 51 interference. So this is a long-term project on their part.
Thanks, appreciate the response!
Is that new for T-Mobile USA or the whole of US carriers? A lot of slightly bigger cities do have 150 Mbit/s with T-Mobile and some do even have 300 Mbit/s. How's that with other US carrieres?
Hopefully we'll see this coming to New Orleans. Data is already faster and cheaper than cable internet. This should be icing on the cake.
Sprint Spark, TMo Wideband...not too necessary. The only one I'm impressed with us VZW XLTE.
Is this compatible with current WP? Like 1520.3 (rm-938)?
It would be cool if they carried Windows Phone. It would be cool if Windows Phone had a phone worth carrying.
Let's hope next year brings change.
Yes!!!! I'm going to class tomorrow for my final. I'll test it out.