T-Mobile Customers And Employees To Get First Dibs On Upcoming G2 HSPA+ Phone

on 08/19/2010 22:26 PDT

Employee benefits are useful little things, and now a leaked internal T-Mobile document shows that T-Mobile customers and employees will be able to get first dibs on the upcoming T-Mobile G2 phone. The majority of the G2′s inventory will be reserved for customers, but employees will be given the opportunity to pre-order the device before it’s available to the public. Sounds like a good time to be a T-Mobile employee, eh?

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HSPA+ is also known as Evolved High-Speed Packet Access. It is a mobile broadband protocol that was defined by the 3GPP standard, release 7. In Theory, the HSPA+ data rate can go up to 84 Mbps (Megabits per second) downstream (to the mobile), and 22Mbps upstream (back to the tower). These numbers are achieved by using multiple streams, so they should be considered theoretical and peak performance numbers. The HSPA+ specifications support up to 168Mbps of theoretical peak rate. Although many HSPA+ carriers call it 4G, it is very different from 4G LTE.

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