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iPhone Straining AT&T Network
dangle writes "More than 20 million other smartphone users are on the AT&T network, but other phones do not drain the network the way the nine million iPhone users do. Because the average iPhone owner can use 10 times the network capacity used by the average smartphone user, dropped calls, spotty service, delayed text and voice messages and glacial download speeds are the result as AT&T's cellular network strains to meet the demand. AT&T says that the majority of the nearly $18 billion it will spend this year on its networks will be diverted into upgrades and expansions to meet the surging demands on the 3G network."
for all it's problems i still prefer my iphone over my blackberry. most times my BB gets thrown in my bag or just sits around the whole weekend while i use my iphone every day
New Orleans? Isn't that where a bunch of idiots built a city on the coast below sea level? Then when that didn't work out to well for them ... Rebuilt it?
New Orleans residents can not be trusted to give their opinions about anything.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
..so many morons (both developers and users) think that multimedia streaming is a good idea.
Drown in your congestion, idiots, but don't bitch about the inevitable consequences. AT&T can upgrade their links from the towers to the Internet, but they're probably never going to roll out a magical upgrade to the electromagnetic spectrum. And if they do, your old iPhone sure isn't going to move to the new band.
Streaming is a dumb idea even on wired shared networks. Wireless, it goes beyond stupid to some other form of trans-stupidity that doesn't have an English word yet. Or did I .. trans-stupidity? I guess it has a ring to it.
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