With New York City proper under its belt, T-Mobile is turning its attention to much of the remainder of the nation’s Northeast to be blessed with 21Mbps (theoretically, anyway) HSPA+ service. Albany, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, much of Connecticut, and Providence, Rhode Island have all now gotten their switch flipped, with Boston and Washington, DC going live “in the coming weeks.” The most interesting bit, though, might be the opening volley of T-Mobile’s press release (which you can find after the break): “4G Speeds.” With Sprint pimping WiMAX hard than ever and Verizon’s first LTE markets coming any week now, it makes sense that T-Mobile would want to go on the offensive here — but since both of those legit 4G techs can scale to higher speeds than HSPA can, it’ll be interesting to see for how long the argument holds up.
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