wraggster
January 11th, 2012, 22:39
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T-Mobile's now the lone national player (http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/04/sprint-iphone-officially-announced-on-sale-october-14/) in the US telecom market that hasn't enjoyed the success of the iPhone, and we've heard on several occasions that its top brass (http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/20/t-mobile-cmo-no-iphone-5-this-year/) isn't oblivious to the effect that its exclusion from Apple's graces has had on the company, going as far to say that the ball is ultimately "in Apple's court (http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/26/t-mobile-90-percent-of-our-smartphone-owners-use-android-ball/)." But in a recent interview, it sounds as though T-Mo CTO Neville Ray has seen some of Apple's roadmap, and the next chipset -- the one that ideally would be included in the next iteration of the iPhone -- will be offering support for Magenta's AWS radio. If true, we'd certainly expect the carrier's bad fortunes to turn around... unless Apple chooses to keep T-Mobile out of its club regardless, which Ray mentioned was a distant possibility. If LTE is also included, the fourth-largest US carrier will still be a bit behind by simply not having the next-gen network connectivity -- although Ray did specify that it isn't impossible to deploy LTE in certain areas by repurposing spectrum -- but we have a feeling there will be plenty of people willing to forego that bullet point on the spec list in order to get their hands on an iPhone with genuine T-Mobile HSPA+ support.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/11/t-mobile-iphone-aws/
T-Mobile's now the lone national player (http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/04/sprint-iphone-officially-announced-on-sale-october-14/) in the US telecom market that hasn't enjoyed the success of the iPhone, and we've heard on several occasions that its top brass (http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/20/t-mobile-cmo-no-iphone-5-this-year/) isn't oblivious to the effect that its exclusion from Apple's graces has had on the company, going as far to say that the ball is ultimately "in Apple's court (http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/26/t-mobile-90-percent-of-our-smartphone-owners-use-android-ball/)." But in a recent interview, it sounds as though T-Mo CTO Neville Ray has seen some of Apple's roadmap, and the next chipset -- the one that ideally would be included in the next iteration of the iPhone -- will be offering support for Magenta's AWS radio. If true, we'd certainly expect the carrier's bad fortunes to turn around... unless Apple chooses to keep T-Mobile out of its club regardless, which Ray mentioned was a distant possibility. If LTE is also included, the fourth-largest US carrier will still be a bit behind by simply not having the next-gen network connectivity -- although Ray did specify that it isn't impossible to deploy LTE in certain areas by repurposing spectrum -- but we have a feeling there will be plenty of people willing to forego that bullet point on the spec list in order to get their hands on an iPhone with genuine T-Mobile HSPA+ support.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/11/t-mobile-iphone-aws/