Can Apps Really Damage a Cellular Network?

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 15, 2010 @09:59AM from the there's-an-app-for-everything-nowadays dept.

schnell writes "In FCC filings earlier this year, T-Mobile described how the behavior of one Android IM app nearly brought their cellular data network to a breakdown in one city. Even more interesting, the US carrier describes how just the 300,000 unlocked iPhones on their network caused massive spikes in data usage. T-Mobile is using these anecdotes as evidence that mobile carriers should be able to retain control over the applications and devices on their network to ensure quality of service for all users. Do they have a point?"

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Re:T-Mobile has exclusivity of iPhone in Germany by snowgirl · 2010-10-15 11:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic

AT&T was always going to lose their exclusivity with the iPhone as well.
"They will have had iPhone exclusivity."

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