[...] Lately there has been a lot of talk about 3G vs 4G and exactly how fast each is. Sprint has been touting “The first and only wireless 4G network from a national carrier” while T-Mobile just completed their HSPA 7.2 upgrade and is moving to HSPA+ this year. [...]

[...] recently upgraded their 3G network to HSPA 7.2 and they are now working to improve their backhaul. The carrier is moving towards HSPA+ in 2010, [...]

why would they worry about upgrading their 3g before they make sure that everywhere has coverage? i’m sick of reading about people and their problems with their 3g connection… hell, be glad you have 3g! i’m stuck with crappy ass EDGE connection! they need to get it together…

when will the new 3g map coming out!

[...] recently completed their upgrade to HSPA 7.2, but many customers did not receive the dramatic speed boost they were expecting. We were wondering [...]

[...] reported that the network upgrade was complete (as did many other news sites) and then asked our readers to test their 3G download [...]

Does anybody know if this will maybe increase signal strength?

In Detroit (48315) I’m getting 689k down and 425 up. On a G1. This is worse than a couple days ago.

Ping is around 300ms with the speetest app.

I don’t know what is going on, but this rollout has been wack.

Serjical-
I have worked at call centre before and unfortunately that’s what outsourcing does… I worked in the headquarters of the company I worked for and all other call centres, whether in the states or outside of the states, never had a clue as to what was going on. Usually it’s a bit difficult to train people outside of the states, but they save money. However, I find T-mobile customer service to be one of the greatest. They are always nice, to me at least, and usually I get what I want…. lol.

Yesterday I checked and the download speed would not go over 500kbps and upload of about 100kbps…. I think they saw this article and really made it nationwide… lol. Today i checked and, even though not great, much better at 1542kbps DL and 392kbps UL 152ms ping.