Comments on: T-Mobile “Very Fast Mobile Web” coming March 14

By: peter

peter — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 06:57:01 +0000

I have the mytouch 3g, and its so slow it probably can’t even process those downlink speeds. I’m upgrading to the Ideos X5 next week.

By: T-Mobile unveils the nation’s fastest wireless network (Not 4G) – Android and Me

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:57:47 +0000

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[...] brand their HSPA+ network as “4G”, but they are sticking with 3G and marketing it as very fast mobile web. The theoretical peak of the HSPA+ implementation T-Mobile uses is 21 Mbps compared to only 10 Mbps [...]

By: octavio

octavio — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:53:03 +0000

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los angeles still no speed increase

By: ontheFritz

ontheFritz — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:30:37 +0000

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Yea. No change in Fort Lauderdale either.

By: t1h5ta3

t1h5ta3 — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:16:09 +0000

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no changes in seattle….

By: frankie

frankie — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:12:03 +0000

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Miami still sucks today. Any news on when they are lighting up that HSPA+

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:22:06 +0000

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Nothing happened in Dallas today. Still slow tested all day. I am really getting tired of false promises

By: Mocha K

Mocha K — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:18:46 +0000

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That’s today

By: AT&T to also use HSPA+ in certain locations – Android and Me

AT&T to also use HSPA+ in certain locations – Android and Me — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:46:04 +0000

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[...] does that mean we could see more HSPA+ devices this year? T-Mobile is launching their HSPA+ network tomorrow and expects to have broad national deployment of its faster mobile web by the end of 2010. Their [...]

By: Dean Williams

Dean Williams — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:51:52 +0000

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Zak, unfortunately, yes, it does need to have a good name, especially with the “#G” concept being publicly acknowledged. The general public is inherently stupid and manipulatable.

“WiMax” incorporates the look and prefix of “WiFi” so general people can make the connection. People already have a perception that the internet should be “very fast” so marketing something as “very fast” is not going to draw any attention. People want the next big thing, not a product named for what their expectation already is.

As for the product itself, T-Mobile has continued to back pedal on their original predictions.