Comments on: Making a T-Mobile iPhone is harder than it sounds

By: Jazib Haider

Jazib Haider — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 17:24:17 +0000

Wow. I believe that iPhones should come to T-Mobile… I mean a million users are craving for it and using it over Edge network…

By: lee

lee — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:44:26 +0000

my iphone 4s works just fine on tmobile.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:07:06 +0000

What I don’t get then is how people can use unlocked iPhones on T-Mobile’s network. If they can do it, seems like it’d be easy enough to produce one.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:41:57 +0000

Why does Tmobile in the UK have iPhones …….. Just wondering? Cn anyone answer?

By: BBBJJJ

BBBJJJ — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:49:04 +0000

Hi! So..there’s still no news if iPhone’s going to accommodate Tmobile?

My friend’s phone broke and he went/called to Tmo about a replacement. Someone there told him that in a couple of months they (Tmo) will be coming out with an iPhone.

Great article, and comments, by the way! Makes my head spin a bit but it did make me understand better.

By: Kevin Fitchard

Kevin Fitchard — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:31:54 +0000

Oh and as for interoperability across the T-Mobile networks. Quad-band phones should be able to roam and vice versa, but only on 2G. The 3G networks are isolated.

By: Kevin Fitchard

Kevin Fitchard — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:30:15 +0000

Hi Raynman,

The big difference is frequency bands. While most of the T-Mobile networks in Europe use the standard 900/1800 MHz for 2G and 2.1 MHz for 3G the U.S. uses the same bands 850 MHz/1900 MHz for 2G and 3G — all of which the standard iPhone supports. T-Mobile deployed its 3G (though it calls it 4G) network on a different band called AWS (1.7 GHz and 2.1 GHz). Since T-Mobile USA and only a handful of others did so, Apple couldn’t justify the additional expense to support such a small group of carriers. Meanwhile all of the other T-Mobiles use the standard European configuration.

By: Raynman_ucf

Raynman_ucf — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:46:08 +0000

Nice article, it helps explain “behind the scenes” reasons why some carriers don’t get some phone models.

I am curious though, T-Mobile’s UK site has the I-phone for sale. What is different between the T-Mobile UK and US networks? I presume that a UK T-Mobile customer’s phone will work in the US if they were to travel here and vice versa.

By: JD

JD — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:47:20 +0000

T-Mobile Europe has the iPhone, T-Mobile US does not…what gives?

By: Derek Kerton

Derek Kerton — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:36:47 +0000

Yeah, but irrelevant to the discussion at hand. T-Mo, in the USA, shares little more than ownership and a brand name with Deutsche’s EU properties. The different spectrum positions assure that divide to be long-term.