T-mobile Voice Quality

[htcboy]

I have a quick question for all T-mobile users: When you make phone calls while on an EDGE connection, do you notice a slight background hiss and the words occasionally miss and/or skip. I ask this question for a reason because I have an SIMM unlocked Sprint Touch Pro2 (Thanks PPC Geeks for all your good information ). Last night, I bought an pre-paid T-mobile SIMM card to try out their service and noticed a poorer voice quality than Sprint. I've been considering switching to T-mobile so I could get my hands on a HTC HD2. I understand you need a GSM cellular provider and AT&T is not even a consideration (My mom has them and they are horrible in NYC area). Is there any voice quality difference between EDGE and 3G connections or could my phone be the issue?

[Adrianh85]

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tmoblie voice quality fails point blank

[mindfrost82]

If T-Mobile does the same thing as At&t, then everything is run at Half Rate codecs on EDGE. The phone does seem to make a difference though. With At&t, I've had some phones sound horrible on EDGE, and some sound really clear.

If T-Mobile uses 3G for voice like At&t does, then the calls should sound a lot clearer while using 3G compared to EDGE. The calls on At&t 3G are so much better than EDGE, its like night and day. Of course, if you're in an overloaded iPhone area like NYC, then At&t is known to be bad, but from what I've read, they've spent lots of money improving their network there over the past few months.

At&t has been good for me the past year that I've had them. Now that I have good 3G coverage, call clarity has been on-par with Sprint, but I'm also not in a heavily populated area.