Wednesday, May 9, 2012
iPhone 5 release date: T-Mobile wants its own “Apple fever” this year!
T-Mobile United States want the next iPhone? The fourth largest wireless carrier says it will be iPhone-ready before the end of this year. The company’s statement, unsurprisingly, came ahead of the rumored June (or October) release date of the widely anticipated smartphone.
T-Mobile, competing with Verizon, Sprint and AT&T, is said to be working with Ericsson and Nokia-Siemens on a multi-billion plan to harness the power of the Long Term Evolution, and experts believe that T-Mobile wants the iPhone 5, the long-rumored Apple smartphone that is expected to support the faster 4G network.
The planned network overhaul, apparently, is similar to AT&T’s 4G LTE network upgrade, but unlike AT&T, T-Mobile’s plan is to work on its frequency band first, before heading to the LTE world.
T-Mobile’s problem is Apple’s iPhone, arguably one of the most popular smartphone brands in United States. Without the iPhone, analysts believe that T-Mobile will keep losing its subscribers–even the die-hard T-Mobile fans.
And the word “late” is better than “never,” with T-Mobile, now, talking about the Apple smartphone and promising their subscribers especially the customers with unlocked iPhones, that its upcoming upgraded network will soon support the iPhone’s 3G and 4G before the end of the current fiscal year.
The problem, apparently, is the so-called AWS frequency band or AWS, but it looks like T-Mobile will manually “adjust” its network just to support the iPhones, including the mythical iPhone 5 that will reportedly hit the lucrative world of smartphones before the fourth quarter of 2012. The new, official announcement, confirms that T-Mobile will soon launch its own 4G HSPA+ service in the 1900MHz band that will improve the carrier’s mobile coverage and quality, and mobile support including the iPhone.
By 2013, says T-Mobile, Ericsson Nokia Siemens will support the wireless provider’s own LTE and might get a 2013 launch date at 37,000 T-Mo sites nationwide. If T-Mobile, fingers crossed, will get the iPhone 5 this year, then it is highly possible that its variant will ship with 3G connectivity only, and the faster LTE will not come until next year. It is worth noting that Apple’s reps are not yet talking about the “iPhone 5,” and if it will support Long-Term Evolution or not.
Apple’s new iPad, or the “iPad 3,” was the first iOS device to support Long-Term Evolution, and based on its hidden chips, it is safe to say that Apple will offer an LTE iPhone this year. Analysts also say that Apple MUST support LTE this year because its rivals, Android and Windows Phone, are already selling LTE devices.
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