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."

Comments

Re:About time!

[Lumpy]

Problem is that the other choices also SUCK.

Verizon has shitty handsets and plain old EVIL customer service. T-mobile is a utter joke in coverage.

I'm stuck. The above 2 plus AT&T are my ONLY choices. and Hell will freeze over before the scumbags at Verizon ever get another dime out of me again.

I wish there was more choice but there is not. i'm in the 2nd largest city in Michigan and the choices are worthless. so I pick the lesser of the evils. And they are getting more evil by the day.