Re: Big announcement coming soon from T-Mobile ; Project Black to shake things up?
 

Umm...the article is pretty clear that it's just regurgitating rumors...

Re: Big announcement coming soon from T-Mobile ; Project Black to shake things up?
 

I didn't say what it was or what it wasn't... notice in my previous post the "..." for sarcasm...again... it's late I suppose and everyone is tired. :rolleyes:

Re: Big announcement coming soon from T-Mobile ; Project Black to shake things up?
 

@spinnukur:

Oh, you're right ...

Re: Big announcement coming soon from T-Mobile ; Project Black to shake things up?
 

@ysss

-.- ;):p

Re: Big announcement coming soon from T-Mobile ; Project Black to shake things up?
 

I think if this were the case then they wouldn't be "training" store staff. They would get a one pager on what to answer when someone asks... which is probably, nothing is going to change...yet.

Personally I think it is a new market approach that would be lead by high end non-osx phones at the lowest cost on a very fast network.

Re: Big announcement coming soon from T-Mobile ; Project Black to shake things up?
 

wasn't t-mobile rumored to be buying Sprint and don't some of the latest phones support cdma AND gsm , like the touch pro 2?

Could make sense

Re: Big announcement coming soon from T-Mobile ; Project Black to shake things up?
 

Article is a lot of hand-wavy economic predictions about how an unlimited $50 will be bad for T-Mobile, because they'll get too many subscribers. Engadget should stick to reporting gadget news.

Re: Big announcement coming soon from T-Mobile ; Project Black to shake things up?
 

I am losing more and more respect for engadget every day. Every article seems more and more like an OpEd piece than a report of the actual facts.

Re: Big announcement coming soon from T-Mobile ; Project Black to shake things up?
 

this is what i say:

Why do people swear that everyone wants a data phone. There are customers who come in my store simply to want a usable phone and the demand for internet access on the go is not that serious. i say if tmobile got a lot more people say 30m more so thats near 60m chop half that in half who would actually be using data a lot maybe less than that. Its us geeks who use internet so much and we are a small percentage.

There are people who want to buy the G1 for the appeal and only use it for texting i kid you not. to date the G1 and Mytouch probably sold lets say somewhere under 7m i really can't speak for the number someone correct me but what other phone really strains the network? Behold hell no, blackberries ... doubt it. All in all i don't think it should be 50 dollars (from a non-consumer point) in my humble opinion cause they can make more money.

I think they should make the current loyalty plan (including text though) made for everyone not a "all-in-one" 50 dollar plan and data be separate for people who want to use it pay for it. Also you have to take into account most people are on flex pay too so if flex pay customers even the annual cannot utilize this they still will be making profit.

Re: Big announcement coming soon from T-Mobile ; Project Black to shake things up?
 

Exactly, plus if the 4G is rolled out more extensively on both it'll make it easier to combine both networks, from my understanding.