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Loading ...In a move of utter stupidity T-Mobile launched a 3G handset today. For those of you that still don’t get wherein the stupidity lies, it would be in the fact that T-Mobile is not a 3G network.
The phone is nothing special, but its available in a few stores in NYC. What, or more specifically who, is special is whoever had the bright idea of releasing a 3G handset sans the whole 3G network thing.
Apparently they did buy some spectrum that is specifically for their 3G network, but they don’t have it yet. As in, the government won’t give it up just yet, so they could have a 3G network real soon if the bureaucrats get off their asses and give it up, but its not looking good.
T-Mobile launches first 3G handset for 3G-less network [via crunchgear]
The only stupidity is in your post since you obviously have very little industry knowledge. Moving to UMTS is all about adding capacity, particularly voice. T Mobile is selling UMTS handsets now so that when UMTS goes live, the handsets will start using the spectrum they paid $4 billion for. It will be transparent to the end user but helps T Mobile immensely with voice capacity. So the more UMTS handsets out there the better.
You need to think outside of your little world. UMTS isn’t just about getting high speed data on your phone (that you probably don’t need). Its about spectral efficiency and an IP core. Make sense, Mr stupidity?