14 DAY TRIAL // The time came to talk about a new direction in the T-Mobile strategy. Sources inside the German mobile carrier have spread rumors about a press conference planned for October 6 in New York, where the mobile phone operator is expected to announce the repercussions of their winning the latest frequency auction that took place for the US region. Rumors say that Deutsche Telekom officials from Germany and from the T-Mobile USA branch will be attending the press conference.
At this conference, T-Mobile is supposed to announce their involvement in the 3G area of communications in USA by using universal mobile telephone service (UMTS). The vice president of the research and consulting company Ovum has said that "T-Mobile will announce UMTS on 1700 Mhz and 2100 Mhz."
Even if T-Mobile hasn't yet published any comments about this information because of the FCC restrictions, it is a common sense knowledge that they were in need of additional spectrum in USA so they could have a chance to materialize their high-speed data delivery network.
Because of the difference in UMTS standards between Europe and USA it seems that the European UMTS enabled mobile phones will not be able to work on the 3G T-Mobile network from USA, a fact that is caused by differences in the frequencies used by the two classes of UTMS standards: in Europe, and the rest of the world, the standard frequency for UTMS is 2100 Mhz, while in USA the same high-speed data delivery technology works on 1900 Mhz.
In conclusion, for all you non-technical oriented people out there, all this technical gibberish means that, until new devices with multiple frequencies will be developed by the mobile phone manufacturers, people from the rest of the world won't be able to use their 3G enabled cell phones on the T-Mobile UTMS network.