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As most US customers probably know this by now, but T-Mobile is the only major carrier in the US that does not offer the iPhone on contract. While the carrier certainly supports unlocked iPhone use on its network (even going as far as to make an effort to boost their network speeds), we guess not being able to offer the highly demanded device is a sore point for them. This was acknowledged by the carrier themselves in their earnings report for Q3 2012, in which they reported that they lost 492,000 customers in the third quarter, which was actually an increase from the 389,000 reported during the same period back in 2011. They have attributed this “due to the impact of the iPhone 5 launch”.

On the upside the carrier has announced that there was an increase of 365,000 net additions in their pre-paid division. T-Mobile is also looking to merge with MetroPCS next year as some of you might recall, so hopefully they will prove to be a more competitive company which will help stop the bleeding of customers leaving the carrier for green pastures.

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T-Mobile USA just announced its Q3 2012 financials, and its balance sheet is sagging over last year: the company collected $4.9 billion, 6.4 percent less than Q3 2011, and earned $1.2 billion, a decline of 15.2 percent. The mobile operator said while it earned more from equipment sales, it wasn’t enough to offset an 8.7 percent drop in service revenue caused by a loss of 492,000 lucrative postpaid clients. Despite the gloomy tidings, the telecom said it added 160,000 new users (net) over last quarter thanks in part to the iPhone 5 launch, including 365k branded prepaid customers — and improved “churn” (clients switching carriers) by 30 basis points to 2.3 percent. The company also feels its MetroPCS merger will also start to pay off soon, figuring it’ll soon have “LTE deployment in 90 percent of the top 25 US markets.” Whether the cheery talk will assuage investors remains to be seen — check the PR after the break to see for yourself.

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What you see on the right could very well be the Nokia Lumia 920 that runs on T-Mobile’s network, putting to bed concerns that an unlocked international Lumia 920 is unable to run on the T-Mobile network. We do know that the Lumia 920 on AT&T will not feature AWS bands courtesy of a device breakdown from the FCC. However, international models of the Nokia Lumia 920 are not similar to the ones found on AT&T, where it will play nice with T-Mobile’s 1700MHz AWS spectrum right from the get go.

Developer units of the Lumia 920, too, have allegedly been touted to run on T-Mobile, at least according to some folks on the Internet. Too bad benchmark fans rooting for the Lumia 920 will not be impressed with the device’s results in speed tests, although TmoNews did manage to muster approximately 12Mbps thereabouts. Does this bit of news make you want to pony up cash for an international version of the Nokia Lumia 920 if you have a close affinity for all things T-Mobile?

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Remember our story on how T-Mobile’s Google Nexus not supporting WiFi calling, a feature that many folks on T-Mobile have been taking advantage of whenever they do not have a decent phone signal and yet are in the vicinity of a fast Internet connection? Well, it seems that we might have been sniffing down the wrong trail, and would like to apologize for any confusion which arose from our previous story. While T-Mobile did confirm that there will be no WiFi calling support on the Google Nexus 4, this has nothing to do with T-Mobile restricting this feature from the Nexus 4.

After all, a Nexus device from Google and whichever hardware manufacturer that they decide to partner with generally does not receive any input from mobile carriers, so T-Mobile was probably in the dark like you and me during the development of the Google Nexus 4. This means there was no input from T-Mobile for the Nexus 4’s manufacturing process, hence the lack of support right from the get go for such a feature. All in all, this should not come across as a surprise as it is a pure Google device, hence no carrier-provided software will be part of it.

Also, some folks did mention that WiFi calling smartphones do come with a specific kernels that was developed by the carriers themselves, and if you have a high level of technical knowledge, tinkering around with 3rd party kernels and custom ROMs, who knows, the Google Nexus 4 might just be able to handle WiFi calling after all.

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Hurricane Sandy did do a number on the east coast of the US, and we have seen the triumph of the individual human spirit amidst the swathe of destruction that happened. This time around, we are looking at a couple of corporate bigwigs – namely AT&T and T-Mobile who joined forces, helping their customers in both New York and New Jersey to remain in touch with one another during the aftermath of Sandy. Both carriers will be opening up their networks to each others’ customers in the two mentioned states, offering free roaming in the process.

Customers can always place class as usual, although these calls will be carried by whichever network that has currently the most operational status within the vicinity. AT&T and T-Mobile aim to deliver seamless interoperability thanks to relying on similar GSM and UMTS-based wireless backbones for both their voice and data networks. It is always nice to see humankind looking out for one another during times of trouble – pass me a tissue please, someone.

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