The iPhone 6 News Blog

Slow to begin building their own 4G LTE network, T-Mobile won’t be getting the iPhone 5 this year, but the iPhone 6 is a definite possibility.

There is consensus in the tech community that the next iPhone will be the first 4G LTE smartphone that Apple has ever created. Unfortunately for T-Mobile, it seems unlikely that they will be one of the U.S. carriers selling it.

News today broke that T-Mobile is finally beginning to build its 4G LTE network in the United States. While this may seem like good news to T-Mobile customers, it comes at the expense of the nation’s fourth-largest mobile carrier failing to get their LTE network up in time to sell this year’s iPhone 5. According to Geek.com: “T-Mobile will invest $4 billion into the deployment. The $3 billion breakup fee (plus much more in assets) that it received from AT&T is likely sparking the move. T-Mobile has struggled to keep up the other three US carriers. In terms of subscribers, it’s the number four US carrier, after Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint (in descending order).”

If 4G LTE is to be a defining feature of the iPhone 5 this year, it goes without saying that T-Mobile will not be considered as a viable iPhone reseller in the United States until their 4G network is fully operational. It might be possible to imagine them selling the iPhone 4 and 4S, but given the immense excitement surrounding the iPhone 5 this year, it is hard to imagine how selling what will be outdated and very outdated iPhones would constitute any kind of market advantage for T-Mobile.

The iPhone 6, however, is another issue entirely.

By the time the iPhone 6 is released, it will at the very least be Apple’s second foray into 4G. In fact, should Apple decide to release an iPhone 5S between the iPhone and iPhone 6, the iPhone 6 could turn out to be the third 4G iteration for Apple — and its release could be as far off as 2014. This would give T-Mobile plenty of time to implement a solid 4G LTE networks, and perhaps avoid having to iron out the many technical bugs that AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint may have to contend with in 2012, one the new (and first) LTE iPhone is released.

 By Michael Nace

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Read about how the 4G LTE network is going to pass by the iPhone 5 and end up being the big, bold feature on the iPhone 6.

2011 was supposed to be “the year of 4G LTE.” For years now, the big mobile network providers like AT&T and Verizon have been boasting all of the 4G resources that they been putting in place for 2011, which was supposed to be the year when the 4G network would replace 3G and go mainstream. Unfortunately, that isn’t looking like a reality as we head toward the midway point of the year, with all signs indicating that the next iPhone will not be a 4G iPhone.

While the iPhone 5 will most likely feature HSPA+ technology — which also currently exists in the iPhone 4 — this is not really the 4G network as we have been promised. Instead, it is nothing more than fake 4G: it’s 3G on steroids. And sure, you get the speed of 4G, but not all of the next-generation benefits. Read More

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