AT&T's network rocks, it's iPhone's problem

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Post by rkuester » Sat, Dec 12, 2009, 7:17 PM UTC

AT&T's network rocks, it's iPhone's problem
nytimes.com

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Post by gamble » Sat, Dec 12, 2009, 8:07 PM UTC

Is there even a single other country where the iPhone has the problems it does on AT&T? I've been using my 3G on Rogers here in Canada since it was released. I've never seen a dropped call and Rogers' network is consistently faster than the phone.

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Post by jwr » Sat, Dec 12, 2009, 8:24 PM UTC

Ahem.

"AT&T is a client and Verizon is not, he added."

So much for objectivity.

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Post by rufo » Sat, Dec 12, 2009, 8:26 PM UTC

This seems like a poorly reasoned article to me.

I don't think anybody argues the point that AT&T has the fastest 3G network. You can have the fastest network. It can have slightly more signal bars. It can also be the one that drops calls the most. These things are not mutually exclusive.

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Post by drhowarddrfine » Sat, Dec 12, 2009, 8:29 PM UTC

It doesn't matter if there are any shortcomings with the iPhone or not. ATT went into partnership with Apple over this and, if they can't handle what it delivers, they should have discovered this beforehand.

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Post by sachinag » Sat, Dec 12, 2009, 8:36 PM UTC

Surely, someone has asked people in other countries what their experiences are with their iPhones on their carriers. Given that the rest of the world is on GSM (Korea excluded), we should pretty well know whose fault it is.

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Post by blhack » Sat, Dec 12, 2009, 8:42 PM UTC

Somebody is asleep at the wheel at nytimes. The video that they linked to for "there's a map for that" is awful.

Here is a better version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCbYTrYD5y8

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Post by spazmaster » Sat, Dec 12, 2009, 8:42 PM UTC

I'm an iPhone user in the Netherlands, locked into T-Mobile. I frequently experience dropped calls. I give T-Mobile the fault... hmmmm

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Post by axod » Sat, Dec 12, 2009, 8:43 PM UTC

iPhone user for 2 years, in the UK, on O2. Never had a single dropped call or issue.

I've been to the US several times, and each time I'm amazed at the unreliable nature of both mobile cellphone networks, and landlines :/ The infrastructure simply isn't there yet.

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Post by Janteh » Sat, Dec 12, 2009, 8:47 PM UTC

spazmaster wrote: post #8

I'm an iPhone user in the Netherlands, locked into T-Mobile. I frequently experience dropped calls. I give T-Mobile the fault... hmmmm

I get not signal in the house of my parents, my girlfriend and the most part of the village I'm from (which is in the middle of the 'Randstad'). T-Mobile's network sucks.