On 30.01.2010, at 13:47, Caius Durling wrote: > On 30 Jan 2010, at 07:09, Adam Knight wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Jon Gotow <[email protected]> wrote: >>> At 11:21 AM -0600 1/29/10, Adam Knight wrote: >>>> And you can bet T-Mobile will start trying to win some of those >>>> users... especially since AT&T's coverage *and* data speeds suck. >>> >>> Except that the iPad does 3G at 850, 1900, and 2100 MHz. T-Mobile's >>> 3G network is different from everyone else's - it runs at 1700 MHz. >> >> Now that really sucks. Apparently they're 2100 in the UK, but >> possibly not the exact same 2100 as the rest of the world, so it may >> not even work there. Oh well. > > If it's the same as the iPhone, then I run a 2G iPhone on TMobile UK just > fine. They don't have EDGE over here, so I end up on GPRS (∑ which ∑ is ∑ > insanely ∑ slow ∑), but the phone itself runs perfectly.
As far as I heard in trustworthy press coverage, only T-Mobile in the US is a problem because their 3G is in an unsupported frequency range. Though my understanding was that this was a new problem with the iPad that didn't exist for iPhones. -- Uli Kusterer Sole Janitor http://www.the-void-software.com
