T-Mobile USA HSPA+ network overtakes competitors with 4G speed

“If you snooze, you lose” may not be the most expressive way of putting it, but Sprint CEO Dan Hesse knows that the longer it takes to get customers onto shiny devices like the EVO 4G, the more chance his carrier rivals have to overtake him in high-speed mobile networks.

T-Mobile (USA) has revealed that their HSPA+ network is now the most enveloping in the country, covering more than 85m people and on track, the carrier promises, to offer HSPA+ to over 185m people by the end of 2010.

The news swirling and suggesting Verizon are pushing ahead with their own 4G plans, with the first podium of their LTE network expected in November this year. Meanwhile T-Mobile USA has also updated its “Rocket” HSPA+ USB high speed modem with the webConnect Rocket 2.0 USB Laptop Stick, another extremely super compact modem that has a flip-out little USB plug and a few countable techno enhancements. That’ll be followed in the summer by T-Mobile’s first HSPA+ capable smartphone. Full details can be extracted from the press release of the company.