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	johnkzin	2008-12-02 , 14:37
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Originally Posted by rjzak

I too would like to see something nice on T-Mo's 3G. Stupid T-Mo folks just had to have their own friggin' frequency. Couldn't share with AT&T like the European carriers share frequencies. You don't see VodaFone, O2, Era, Orange, T-Mo DE/UK, etc each with their own friggin frequencies.

I almost hate T-Mobile for this.

I'm pretty sure this is more the govt's fault than T-Mobile's. They used the frequencies they were able to license at FCC auction.

The failing, IMO, is the lack of a national wireless infrastructure. I'm not sure what the best way to solve it would be, but one way to solve it would be to have the radio carriers (which may not be the same people who are the voice/msg/data plan carriers) have regional contracts for maintaining the local wireless infrastructure, and they compete with each other for contracts on that. Then the plan carriers sit on top of that. Users pay the plan carriers, plan carriers pay the wireless infrastructure carriers (effectively making all plan carriers into MVNO's), wireless infrastructure carriers operate under Public Utility regulations.

Then you wouldn't have to worry about different frequencies for different carriers: it's all the same soup, at the frequency band level.

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