“T-Mobile confirmed today on Twitter that subscribers currently running on legacy data plans will be allowed to keep their existing plans when they switch to T-Mobile’s upcoming iPhone-compatible HSPA+ network later this year,” Mike Beasley reports for 9to5Mac.
“Anyone still using one of T-Mo’s old $5 unlimited 2G/EDGE data plans will be able to get $5 unlimited HSPA+ 4G on their iPhone when T-Mobile finishes refarming their 1900 MHz spectrum later this year,” Beasley reports.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
This makes AT&T shafting all the more ugly
T-mobile has to say that tO keep their three remaining customers from jumping ship.
How come it is that no one utters a peak about t-mobile ads claiming super fast 4G speed, when they only have a 3G HSPA+ network? (I mean come on. People here bitch AT&T and verizon calling their LTE networks 4G because they currently only reach 54MBPS rather than 100mbps (and LTE really IS a 4G standard) and then remain mute about T-moble calling a 24MBPS HSPA+ network -4G- for a couple years now (HSPA(+) is decidedly a 3G NOT a 4G standard)
@ Tessellator: perhaps because there isn’t a single network that actually achieves the 1 GB/sec speed defined by the technical ITU-R requirements. So what difference does it make which “generation” the company wants to associate itself with if their deployment of the technology can’t deliver the defined speed of the so-called “standard”?
What?
You are saying that 24gbps enhanced 3G is as much “4g” as LTE (which is a real 4G standard) operating at 54gbps?
Other than double the data speeds (and even more than that upstream) the big difference is the t-mobile has reached the top of 3G HSPA speed and now must implement in it’s towers LTE to go any faster (not a trivial task (a significant task in time labor and $$$)
i’d take 24gbps unlimited for $5 a month anytime I could get it…sadly, I switched from t-mob a while ago and can only dream.