T-Mobile's 4G Network Boosted to Download Speeds of 42 Mbps

T-Mobile has announced at CTIA that it is doubling the download speeds of its wireless 4G network in three select metro areas. Las Vegas, New York and Orlando will be the first cities to showcase the upgraded network, with plans for much wider expansion to follow shortly after.

T-Mobile's current goal is to make these increased 4G speeds available to 140 million Americans in 25 markets by mid-year 2011.

The roadmap for this significant speed boost starts in the three cities mentioned above, followed by Chicago, Long Island and Northern New Jersey. 

After that, it can be assumed that T-Mobile will focus on other primary metropolitan markets.

In its current condition, T-Mobile's 4G network can attain download speeds of 21 Mbps, so the planned improvement to the network would technically yield a 100% performance increase.

To take advantage of its technologically advanced (and advancing) network, T-Mobile is releasing a bevy of 4G devices, including the Sidekick 4G and G2x 4G smartphones, the G-Slate tablet, and a new laptop stick lineup.

This last set of products will include the T-Mobile Rocket 3.0, which will enable customers to connect Wi-Fi devices to T-Mobile's 4G network, and will be the first such device that will take advantage of the 42 Mbps upgraded network. It will be available later this spring.

Several other new hotspot/laptop stick devices, like the T-Mobile Jet 2.0 and the prepaid T-Mobile Rocket 4G, will also be released, and will function with the more wide-ranging, less impressively speedy 21 Mbps 4G T-Mobile network.

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