14 DAY TRIAL // Today, wireless carrier T-Mobile USA announced that its super-fast mobile broadband network was set for further expansion in the country. According to the company, its HSPA+ network should be able to offer connectivity to more than 75 million Americans in over 25 markets by the end of June. At the same time, the T-Mobile webConnect Rocket USB Laptop Stick should become available for more users, offering them access to the HSPA+ speeds the network delivers.
HSPA+ and the T-Mobile webConnect Rocket USB Laptop Stick go hand in hand, the carrier notes, adding that they are already available in a range of metropolitan areas in the US. Among these markets, we can count Los Angeles; Dallas; Atlanta; Houston; Seattle; Tampa and Orlando, Fla.; Pittsburgh; Charlotte, Greensboro, and Winston-Salem, N.C.; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Okla.; New Orleans; and Charleston, S.C. In addition, HSPA+ has been expanded to Bentonville, Ark.; Anderson, S.C.; and Fayetteville, N.C. T-Mobile’s HSPA+ mobile broadband service is already live in New York; Philadelphia; Las Vegas; Memphis; Upstate New York; Connecticut; Providence, R.I.; and the Washington, D.C., suburbs.
T-Mobile is hard at work with expanding the footprint of its HSPA+ mobile broadband so as to enable more and more customers benefit from 4G-like speeds the webConnect Rocket USB Laptop Stick supports. Moreover, the carrier's lineup includes a number of 13 devices that can benefit from the upgraded speeds available on the HSPA+ network, including the Nokia E73 Mode, the latest smartphone added to the offering.
“T-Mobile has rolled out HSPA+ service to more than 25 major metropolitan areas in four month’s time, as we drive towards having the most pervasive mobile broadband network delivering 4G speeds in the country,” said Neville Ray, senior vice president of Engineering and Operations for T-Mobile USA. “T-Mobile is delivering unprecedented value to our customers with the availability of a super-fast mobile broadband experience combined with compelling and affordable devices and data plans.”
According to the wireless carrier, it already managed to make impressive progress in the number of markets that can benefit from faster mobile broadbands. At the same time, the company says that it plans on continuing the aggressive roll-out to bring HSPA+ speeds to 100 major metropolitan areas in the US, covering 185 million people by the end of the ongoing year.
“With the rapid expansion of its HSPA+ network this year, T-Mobile is in a great position of being able to deliver high-speed data service to a broader number of customers today,” said Peter Jarich, principal analyst, Wireless Infrastructure, Current Analysis. “Ultimately, consumers don’t care what technology powers the network they’re using — they care about the quality and experience of their mobile data service, the cost of those services, and the devices available to access them. HSPA+ has the potential to deliver higher data rates across a broader lineup of devices in the next one to two years than competing technologies.”