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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."
No, I mean that I'm English. England is the country, inhabited by the English, and the language of England is the English language. North Americans write in American English, a regional dialect (an extraordinarily large region) with great similarity, but significant differences, to English.
Great Britain is the main island forming the unitary state of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
I take off my hat and pedants' cloak...
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