T-Mobile Launches 3G Mobile Service In NYC

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T-Mobile is launching 3G service in New York City. The company is using UTMS technology, and will offer 4 available handsets that take advantage of the architecture. The price for the plan varies, depending on which handset you choose.

At the start, data rates will be the same as its slower EDGE service and therefore somewhat indecipherable, since T-Mobile charges widely varying rates–$5.99, $19.99, $39.99 and so on–depending on whether you use a regular phone or different types of smartphone. (Only the wireless-phone industry can come up with so many different ways to charge for the same service of unlimited data access.)

T-Mobile will begin selling phones compatible with a faster flavor of 3G called HSDPA later this year. Henderson said those should yield “an average data rate of 600 kbps with a peak of 1 Mbps.” He also suggested that prices could change at that point, writing that “T-Mobile will continue to evaluate pricing for HSDPA services later this year.”

T-Mobile said this is the first of many such product launches this year as the company rolls out 3G service in more American cities.

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