T-Mobile Leap-Frogging HSPA+ 84Mbps to LTE Instead
Feb 28, 2012, 5:00 AM by Eric M. Zeman
T-Mobile USA today indicated that it no longer plans to deploy HSPA+ 84Mbps network services. Instead, T-Mobile USA will jump from its 42Mbps HSPA+ service straight to LTE. T-Mobile USA's Andrew Sherrard told The Verge that the original HSPA+ 84Mbps plan would have required T-Mobile to refarm some of its 1900MHz spectrum. Since it needs to take this same step to deploy LTE, it makes sense for T-Mobile to skip deploying HSPA+ 84Mbps.