T-Mobile today announced that their super-high-speed HSPA+ network has expanded from Philadelphia to parts of New York City, New Jersey, Long Island, the Las Vegas Convention Center and Strip areas, and west suburban Washington DC, with Los Angeles coming soon.
As I found in hands-on tests last month, HSPA+ delivered blazing speeds of up to about 7.5 megabits/sec when I used it with its only current device, the T-Mobile WebConnect Rocket USB modem. But HSPA+ also boosts speeds on standard 3G devices – I found speeds on a T-Mobile MyTouch 3G would up to triple when I entered the HSPA+ zone.
Over 200 million people in the US are now covered by T-Mobile 3G, T-Mobile senior vice president of engineering and operations Neville Ray said. Over 10,000 of T-Mobile’s 47,000 cell sites have fiber backhaul already, which will help support the massive data usage of HSPA+. T-Mobile plans to cover over 100 metro areas with HSPA+ by the end of 2010, Ray said. Half of that footprint will be available by midyear, Ray said.
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