iPhone Straining AT&T Network

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 2, 2009 @11:57PM from the got-an-app-for-that dept.

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."

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Throttle them... by bigtoque · 2009-09-03 00:18 · Score: 0, Troll

This small minority of iPhone users is destroying the network for the rest of us.

AT&T should use some traffic shaping techniques to throttle the speed for anyone using an iPhone, because anything consuming this much bandwidth is no doubt due to illegal filesharing.

Hell they should take a page out of Apples own book and "reject" the iPhone from the AT&T network :p
Re:Hey! by jedidiah · 2009-09-03 00:28 · Score: 1, Troll

You're right. I can't afford a $900 per month cell phone bill.
Although I make considerably more than $30K.

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A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Re:About time! by Splab · 2009-09-03 00:35 · Score: 0, Troll

So you are saying they have been using mobile networks for 1000 of years?