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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."
This small minority of iPhone users is destroying the network for the rest of us.
:p
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
You're right. I can't afford a $900 per month cell phone bill.
Although I make considerably more than $30K.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
When a subsidized cell phone is included in everyone's phone contract, nobody wants to expend much effort to steal a $45 Blackberry. When the same phone is $400 retail with a pawn value of $150, thieves will be MUCH more interested. With its high price, the iPhone puts this strategy at risk. Even so, it would be even worse ($800-$900) unsubsidized, and a HUGE target for theft.
I wish I had an iPhone, but instead I only use phones that are almost entirely subsidized. I have never lost one, and nobody breaks into my car even if I inadvertently leave the phone in plain sight.
Besides, here in the US, AT&T is the exclusive carrier for the iPhone. Not even God can make a phone good enough to compensate for AT&T.
So you are saying they have been using mobile networks for 1000 of years?
"The thing is we gave the carriers $200B a long time ago for cheap broadband services decades ago"
That's an urban myth.
I work for AT&T and our networks are fine.
We did not get a government handout.
And the reason the cell phone network is slower is because of all the mp3 and movie pirates.
but in a rural environment the longer range/increased penetration
I'd like to give your Mom some longer range and increased penetration
Jealous much? The iPhone is finest mobile phone ever sold.
Actually, any person that is darker than the most recent turd I shit out can, by definition GTFO.
Fuck you if you don't like it.
Because blacks have really wierd cultural things than your hispanics do. Same goes for the Middle easterners compared to the asians. Most people find it wierd they dress in all the same color, drive a shitmobile with 24" dubs that are 2X the value of the shitmobile they drive and wear the dorkiest hats with the tags on them. I personally think it's the poser wannabe black guys trying to look important... Yeah, I'm on the phone with my bitches... Admit it, most "hip hop" blacks act like nutjobs. Come on, most of us learned at 8 years old to not hold your privates and to actually go pee if you need to. These idiots look like retards that need to pee. I've also seen Middle easterners answer the phone then start yelling in high speed at whoever is on the other end. To americans it's wierd. to an Iraqi it's normal to scream at the other person.
Then we have Germans, it sounds like they want to kill you when they talk because their language is so violent.