HTC Kaiser with 1700 MHz support, for Japan or T-Mobile USA?
The T-Mobile 3G plot thickens here in the U.S. Today’s clue comes via The Boy Genius Report where we can see the HTC Kaiser FCC filing showing data support for the 1700 MHz band. Clouding the evidence is the reference to that band for Japan, not here in the land of the free where nothing is. Of course, the pundits are poring through the HTC Kaiser manual hosted on said FCC site and see various references to T-Mobile U.S.A., so who knows? The debate rages on and the funniest part is that we’re all talking about a high-speed cellular network that doesn’t yet exist. Or does it? That would be the ultimate clue in my book; can we get someone from C.S.I. on the case?
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If it says 1700 MHz for Japan, it’s different than T-Mobile’s 1700 MHz AWS. T-Mobile AWS uses Band IV (1710-1755 MHz UL, 2110-2155 MHz DL) while Japanese Band IX is (1749.9-1784.9 MHz UL, 1844.9-1879.9 MHz DL).
The chipset (msm7200) for the Kaiser does not support Japanese bands. Qualcomm made a statement in June O6 that the chipset of the Kaiser has support of AWS.
http://www.cdmatech.com/download_library/pdf/msm7200_chipset.pdf
http://www.qualcomm.com/press/releases/2006/060628_adds_aws_band.html
Kaiser does support T-Mobile AWS and will be released soon for T-Mobile.