T-Mobile USA Typically Only Has 6Mbps Bandwidth to Each Cell Site

If you’ve ever wondered why T-Mobile USA is taking to long to roll out 3G wireless data in the US, look no further than this interesting interview by Om Malik of T-Mobile USA’s CTO (Cole Brodman)…

The GigaOM Interview: Cole Brodman, CTO, T-Mobile USA

In it, Brodman says:

Today our bandwidth is typically multiple DS-1s or T-1s to a cell site. We probably average between 3 and 4 T-1s per cell site today for our general 2G-3G business…We’re at 6 Mbps per second per site.

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