Thread: Do all T-mobile USA 3.5G towers support 7Mb/s?
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Originally Posted by Crashdamage View Post
All 3.5 3G is 7mbps by definition, so all 3.5G towers do.
I'm pretty sure your "definition" is wrong here. AFAICT, in the context of N900 connection icon, 2.5G refers to EDGE (up to 236kb/s), 3G refers to plain UMTS (up to 384kb/s), and 3.5G refers to HSDPA. HSDPA includes speeds from 0.9Mb/s up, including the most common deployments at 3.6 and 7.2.

I'm not aware of any usage of 3.5G to mean "HSDPA, but only at rates above $x"; people usually split the various generations up by technology, not bitrate.

Not all T-Mobile 3G is 7mbps.
According to PC World, all T-mobile sites are rolled out with 7.2Mb/s or higher.
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