Now, with regulatory hurdles firmly out of the way, this newly created corporate entity (which will assume the T-Mobile US branding) will combine all PCS, AWS-1 and 700MHz spectrum licenses across 248 Cellular Market Areas.
Heck, even T-Mobile in the US is abandoning phone subsidies within the next few months.
It's attracted a commitment from T-Mobile in the US (timeframe not yet specified) and other carriers around the world, so we're likely going to see a lot more of this little beaut in the future.
By default, Apple will sell these at full MSRP in a "SIM-in unlocked fashion, " as confirmed to us by an Apple representative here at T-Mobile's event in New York City.
That bottom-dwelling, budget tier, first announced at this past Mobile World Congress, has already seen a couple of category cousins come out into the open (see: Vodafone's G 300 and T-Mobile's G 312), so color us unsurprised to find yet another single-core, Googlefied device crop up at the FCC.
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If, like T-Mobile, you're one of the few major US networks that doesn't carry the iPhone, there's a few stages you have to go through.
The expectation is that Orange's new best bud, T-Mobile, will be offering similar pricing shortly, leaving us to wonder what Vodafone and O2 might be cooking up.
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And because Europe took the lead on mobile phones it didn't matter that the US had different ideas - eventually commercial pressure compelled them to implement compatible systems.
Motorola's out in San Francisco today at GigaOM's Mobilize 09 event to finally dish the real story on its Android-flavored future -- and considering that T-Mobile's CTO Cole Brodman is co-keynoting with Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha, it's reasonable to think that T-Mobile will once again be leading the way for carrier adoption of the platform in the US (Verizon's rumored Sholes, on the other hand, might be a no-show).
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The SIM-based NFC solution will utilize the US bank's ClickandBuy service for processing and will be available to T-Mobile customers, rolling out to Poland in Q3 of this year and Germany in 2013.
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