Comments on: AT&T CTO Talks Network Fixer-Upper Plans

By: dennis

dennis — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:34:10 +0000

As I’ve mentioned before, they’re just going to lose potential customers to T-Mobile, which has more 3G experience and a cheaper unlimited 3G data plan, and the Android phone. It has taken them forever to respond to their 3G network issues, their response is too bland and not at all a direct response to iPhone 3G networking issues, and the content of their PR campaign indicates that they cannot address the issues quickly. Maybe if you complain and threaten to drop the service, they’ll give you a credit. But otherwise, this kind of **** is exactly why I’ll pay an ETF and switch if this doesn’t stabilize very soon. Even if I take a loss, I’d rather take the loss than give even more money to ATT.

By: PSM

PSM — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:16:17 +0000

All I know is when I bought my iPhone on launch day, I was working in the suburbs of Boston, and my 3G reception was flawless for 2 months. I came home to NYC a week ago, and have had no data access at all for probably half the time I’ve tried to use it, and really slow speeds the rest of the time. Things seem better after upgrading to 2.0.2, but I blame this squarely on AT&T. How is it Apple’s fault if a phone works great in one region and not at all in another? And iPhone users aren’t the only ones complaining about data being down and/or slow in NYC this week. Sounds to me like AT&T is having network problems and that’s why some people are furious about 3G speeds on the iPhone and others are perfectly happy.