Mobile Carriers Impose Handicaps On Smartphones

Nrbelex writes "A team at the University of Michigan and Microsoft Research has uncovered, for the first time, the frequently suboptimal network practices of more than 100 cellular carriers. By recruiting almost 400 volunteers to run an app on their phones that probes a carrier's networks, the team discovered, for example, that one of the four major U.S. carriers is slowing its network performance by up to 50 percent (PDF). They also found carrier policies that drained users' phone batteries at an accelerated rate, and security vulnerabilities that could leave devices open to complete takeover by hackers."

Comments

No names?

[XanC]

How does this help me without naming names?

Re:Wilfully drain batteries?

[jo42]

I've seen 'tard mobile app developers keeping one, two or three continuously open connections back to a server for long poll. Then I ask them what if they get 10,000 or 100,000 simultaneous mobile users. Someone needs to beat them silly with a clue stick.