T-Mobile USA laid out the plan Friday for the $4.2 billion in wireless spectrum it won in a recent federal auction, saying it expects to spend nearly $2.7 billion on a network upgrade that can deliver mobile multimedia capabilities it hasn’t been able to offer like its rivals.

The rollout of the next generation network is scheduled to start during the current quarter and be completed in 2009, with "most of the work" completed by 2008, T-Mobile and corporate parent Deutsche Telekom AG of Germany said in a statement.

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