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The folks from T-Mobile have been making a lot of noise regarding the iPhone 5 as of late, even though they don’t offer it themselves. After we’ve seen countless announcements and leaks from the carrier showing their plans to support the iPhone 5, today they’ve detailed it yet again promising faster 4G HSPA+ speeds on the iPhone.

Now T-Mobile states just iPhone, and that is because the flood of users upgrading to the iPhone 5 will be selling their iPhone 4 and 4S smartphones, and T-Mobile is looking to lure some of those buyers to their network. With talk of an enhanced and refarmed 1900 Mhz 4G HSPA+ spectrum, T-Mobile is promising the fastest speeds for the iPhone — not counting LTE.

This is a huge part of T-Mobiles $4 billion dollar plan to increase and refarm their network across the US, and one thing many aren’t remembering is this is for more than just the iPhone. All those unlocked international devices — and those from AT&T — will all work on this new and improved option from T-Mobile with more than just 3G speeds. You’ll have full blazing fast 4G HSPA+ speeds that are quite speedy while T-Mobile works to launch 4G LTE early next year.

T-Mobile is claiming this restructuring and improvement to their network is going to make it much much faster, stronger, and more dependable. The folks down in Sin City (like me) in Las Vegas will be one of the first to enjoy this complete overhaul, with T-Mobile already updating more than 75% of the cities coverage. They plan to continue this over the next few weeks and months to include Seattle, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, the New York metro area and more soon. With T-Mobile’s “Unlocked and Unlimited” plans they offer the iPhone 4, 4S, and 5 something no others do.

T-Mobile stores are ready to move your new or used iPhone over to their network, and even have iPhone 5 nano-SIM cards in-store to do the same with the latest smartphone from Cupertino.

[via T-Mobile Blog]

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The new, lighter iPhone 5 has a bigger screen, punchier processor, LTE and dual-band WiFi, but if you plan to pick one up for Sprint’s network, you can’t have it all. Carrier spokesperson Michelle Leff Mermelstein told Phone Scoop that its version of HD Voice will not work on Apple’s new wünderphone. While most carriers use WCDMA networks to achieve the greater definition, Sprint uses CDMA 1X Advanced, which unfortunately isn’t compatible with the handset. Knowing the feature will be missing prior to launch isn’t ideal, but when you’re calling your friends to boast about that day-one purchase, a slight drop in clarity isn’t likely to kill your geek buzz.

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Sprint confirms its HD Voice is incompatible with the iPhone 5 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you’ve got Apple’s new LTE-capable iPhone 5, you’re going to need some LTE markets. Fortunately, Apple had a huge, global list of carriers that are going to work with Apple’s latest. In the US, AT&T, Sprint and Verizon will all support true 4G connectivity, while Canada’s Rogers, Telus and Bell will also get the hook-up. In Europe, the newly established EE and Deutsch Telekom will gain LTE, while in Asia, KDDI, Softbank, KT, SK Telecom and SmartTone will all be provided for.

Update: Apple’s detailed all the technical specs of its new radio in the US, but we’re looking at what’s arguably the first LTE world phone — unless there’s a second model to do the rounds in Asia and Europe. It’s the first device to run on the LTE networks of all the major carriers, although unfortunately there no AWS (1700MHz) HSPA+ for T-Mobile customers. Take a look at the more coverage link to get knee-deep in frequencies — there’s plenty of HSPA to go around.

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Apple announces worldwide carriers for iPhone 5: Sprint, AT&T and Verizon will support LTE in the US (update: No AWS HSPA+ for T-Mobile) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ethernet might seem passé to those of us toting Ultrabooks, but it’s important enough to provoke a crisis for internet providers and many of those who depend on high-speed computing networks for a living: based on the rises of streaming video and social networking, the IEEE is worried that many of those large-scale networks will need 10Tbps of total bandwidth just to avoid a logjam in 2020. To that end, the standards body has formed a Higher-Speed Ethernet Consensus group that’s mulling a new, breakneck-speed format reaching either 400Gbps or 1Tbps, depending on whose approach you’d favor. Fight the urge to pick the 1Tbps option on instinct, however. Both options would depend on bonding multiple connections together, and the faster of the two formats could lead to some expensive and very ungainly cables if it’s not handled well. A meeting is scheduled for late September in Geneva to at least begin hashing out the details. Although we won’t be wiring our homes with terabit Ethernet anytime soon, the standard should come quickly enough that the Googles and Netflixes of the world can satisfy our data addictions for a good while longer.

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IEEE pushes for Ethernet standard between 400Gbps and 1Tbps, hopes to head off big data crunch originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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