T-Mobile may have a million iPhones running on its network, but they're all crawling along at slow EDGE speeds. That's going to change over the next few months as the carrier 'refarms' 3G spectrum to become more compatible with AT&T-specced phones.
Where better to test that than the iPhone scrum known as the Apple Worldwide Developers' Conference? T-Mobile confirmed to 9to5Mac that it'll turn on 1900Mhz HSPA+ "inside the west side of the Moscone Center", although the company added that "the time and location of this test is just coincidental."
Yeah, right.
T-Mobile's refarming won't just help iPhone owners. T-Mobile's 1700Mhz AWS spectrum is supported by fewer devices than the more mainstream 1900Mhz band, so unlocked Android phones that couldn't hit 3G on T-Mobile before will finally be able to do so.
Few of those phones will be able to achieve T-Mobile's full '4G' speeds, though, because the phones' own modems aren't fast enough. T-Mobile's network runs at HSPA+ 42, but the iPhone plugs along at a relatively sedate HSPA 14.4. I'd expect 2-4Mbps download speeds on an iPhone, as compared to around 8Mbps on an HSPA+ 42 phone like the HTC One S.
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Samsung Says Speculation It Will Buy Nokia Is Groundless - Businessweek
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest mobile-phone maker, said market speculation that it is interested in acquiring competitor Nokia Oyj (NOK1V) is groundless.
Samsung, based in Suwon, South Korea, made the comment today in an e-mailed statement. Shares of Espoo, Finland-based Nokia fell 0.7 percent to 2.35 euros at 11:27 a.m. Helsinki time, after jumping 6 percent on June 8 amid speculation Samsung is preparing an offer.
Nokia, struggling to recover lost market share, has declined 46 percent in the past year as consumers snapped up Apple Inc. (AAPL) (AAPL) iPhones and Samsung smartphones running on Google Inc.’s Android software. Samsung overtook Nokia in the first quarter as the world’s largest handset maker, according to Gartner Inc.
Samsung also denied it’s interested in Nokia a year ago, responding to reports that it was getting ready to make a bid.
To contact the reporters on this story: Saeromi Shin in Seoul at sshin15@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Kenneth Wong at kwong11@bloomberg.net
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