Nokia Lumia 521 WP 8.1

I have a Lumia 521 and my carrier is T-Mobile, but I can't get the 8.1 update for my phone. Everytime I check for updates it says that my phone is up to date even though I know its not! What should I do?!
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As a 521 owner and T-Mobile user, I can honestly say I am so unsatified with the responses I've seen as to when we will see the 8.1 and Cyan release for this device. I have seen everything from it will be released this summer to sometime this year. Between Microsoft and T-Mobile they need to get their act together. At this point I cannot understand how Microsoft can start to let there devices begin to get fragmented as the are. They are already releasing the official 8.1.1 update to some devices and yet others are still sitting at 8.0. It seems that both T-Mobile, Verison and Microsoft are at fault in this mess, if it is the carrier not updating the devices then stop selling the devices to them! Microsoft needs to take an approach more like Apple and release updates all at once for all devices, than Android's fragmentated release by each carrier, that is if they want satisfied customers. The fragmented approach hinders developers from making stable apps, and frustrates end users. I chose WP8 over iOS or Android partly due to cost, the potential of the OS and the prospect it was going to be a unified OS accross all devices. Cost is only a small factor to me, it was more the potential and the unification that attracted me, but hey that is just this consumers opinion.

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