T-Mobile: Today's 4G LTE is good, but ours will be great

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T-Mobile USA may be behind its rivals when it comes to 4G LTE, but that doesn't mean it's mincing words about its ambitions.

T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray.

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AT&T and Verizon Wireless may be able to boast of a super-fast wireless connection now, but T-Mobile believes it can one-up both of them when it finally gets its LTE network rollout going next year.

"LTE today is good, but LTE tomorrow can be great," Ray said in an interview with CNET today. "That's the opportunity we hope to secure and differentiate ourselves with."

The key to T-Mobile's success: its recently unveiled plans to merge with MetroPCS, adding the prepaid carrier's spectrum, which conveniently sits in many of T-Mobile's key cities, to its own position. The extra capacity will allow for higher speeds, wider capacity for traffic, and overall better service, Ray said.

It's a marked reversal of rhetoric for the company, which just a year ago complained to the government that it was spectrum starved and lacked the resources to go at it alone, making the case that AT&T should swallow up the carrier.

But after a break-up fee that included spectrum and a roaming agreement worth $1 billion, parent Deutsche Telekom recommitting resources to the unit, and the recently struck deal with MetroPCS, T-Mobile is had ... [Read more]