T-Mobile has announced that it will be unveiling its latest contract-free deal in a livestreamed ‘fireside chat’ tomorrow, Un-carrier 8.0.
Un-carrier 8.0 is ready to roll, and you’re invited to join us for the unveiling of one of our biggest and boldest moves yet! This one is so big we had to keep it a surprise.
Join John Legere, CEO of T-Mobile, as he unveils the news during a live fireside chat with David Pogue of Yahoo! News. David will be taking questions for John from Twitter through @JohnLegere and @Pogue and the #Uncarrier8 hashtag.
The company hasn’t hinted at any of the details, but we’ll of course let you know …
T-Mobile has also announced that its new Wideband LTE service is now live throughout the greater New York City metro area, and is claiming a speed boost of “up to 50 percent.”
Already, T-Mobile customers in the metro area have reported download speeds in excess of an unprecedented 100 Mbps. In addition to Manhattan, Wideband LTE now covers T-Mobile customers in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Long Island and Northern NJ.
White Plains, Scarsdale and Central New Jersey will follow “soon.”
T-Mobile claims the service allows un-carrier customers to download a 90-minute HD movie in 3.5 minutes, and a music album in nine seconds – though notes that these claims rely on a “theoretical” peak speed of 110Mbps, with the real-life average so far of a rather more sedate 22.2Mbps. The company says this is, though, “faster than AT&T and Verizon and more than two times faster than Sprint’s network speeds.”
Competition among carriers has been heating-up of late, with Sprint announcing a ‘cut your bill in half’ promo for AT&T and Verizon switchers a couple of weeks ago, and T-Mobile announcing a 2-line unlimited data family plan for $100/month.
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Bring it on! But please make something that is interesting for unlimited customers, unlike that silly streaming music deal. My #1 request is to make the international roaming a somewhat less throttled speed. I LOVE my free international roaming w/ data, and it’s just fast enough to not be unusable (I can usually post to instagram, imessage works, etc), but if the speed could just be doubled or so, I could actually browse web pages, etc.
Tmobile is doing a gokd job atleast in the urban centers since thats where i live. I travel during sumner but this winter when im on a road trip from nyc to michigan i wilk see if tmobile network as improve. As for sprint doesnt matterif you cut your bill when your network experience and qualities haven’t change and are still crap people are going to buy it and if they do hopefully they don’t regret it