What about Boston? There seem to be more people here with iPhones than every other kind of phone combined. Where's our upgrade? heh
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AT&T Announces 850 MHz 3G Coverage Improvements in New York City and Other Markets
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finally got 3G in Bloomington IN
A week or two ago we finally got some spotty 3G coverage here in Bloomington, IN. Being a college town and having 100,000 people or so, I really don't know why we didn't have it over a year ago. Verizon EV-DO has been around here for at least two years.
A week or two ago we finally got some spotty 3G coverage here in Bloomington, IN. Being a college town and having 100,000 people or so, I really don't know why we didn't have it over a year ago. Verizon EV-DO has been around here for at least two years.
Doing fine in Chicago
A few months ago, I had 1-2 bars inside my home....that went to 4-5. Very nice.
A few months ago, I had 1-2 bars inside my home....that went to 4-5. Very nice.
iPhone 3.1 next week.....
...will enable MMS. The network upgrades had to go in first.
...will enable MMS. The network upgrades had to go in first.
I work in NYC and live in Long Island. So far I have yet to notice much of a difference. I really hope there are actual improvements though. We really need it.
They are SO full of crap. I am sitting here in midtown Manhattan on the second floor of an office building SURROUNDED by windows. And I have one bar of Edge. Sometimes I get a bar of 3G, if I am lucky. Even if it shows that I have full bars of 3G, I have virtually no service (minutes to load any webpage).
There is no doubt in my mind that, unless Verizon has some insane policy or price difference, 95% of NYC iPhone users will be switching to Verizon when they get the iPhone. Though I guess by then they will both be on LTE networks, so the difference won't be as strong?
Ugh, I never imagined the day I would long for VERIZON.
There is no doubt in my mind that, unless Verizon has some insane policy or price difference, 95% of NYC iPhone users will be switching to Verizon when they get the iPhone. Though I guess by then they will both be on LTE networks, so the difference won't be as strong?
Ugh, I never imagined the day I would long for VERIZON.
3G has never worked properly on the iPhone, it is false advertising and no one cares. I am in Colorado and it SUCKS here. Constantly hear an echo, switches between 3G and Edge every two minutes, regardless of signal bars being FULL. When is somebody going to successfully sue Apple and make a huge dent to make them follow federal law in regards to false advertising.
Could AT&T please do the DFW Metroplex a "solid" and give us some better 3g?
DFW = Dallas, Fort Worth and about 20 cities in between and around.
I was talking to my father yesterday, in my driveway (cell towers less than a mile away) and had one sentence that was 6 words long. It took 3 calls to say it. All with "call failed" and when I would call back, I would get a busy signal 2 times, and the third retry would go through.
I have another friend that has an iPhone, and he and I talk quite a bit at night. The calls hardly drop by 11pm, but the quality is horrible. I keep having to ask him what he said.
DFW = Dallas, Fort Worth and about 20 cities in between and around.
I was talking to my father yesterday, in my driveway (cell towers less than a mile away) and had one sentence that was 6 words long. It took 3 calls to say it. All with "call failed" and when I would call back, I would get a busy signal 2 times, and the third retry would go through.
I have another friend that has an iPhone, and he and I talk quite a bit at night. The calls hardly drop by 11pm, but the quality is horrible. I keep having to ask him what he said.
What about SF---particularly Haight/Ashbury
Man was I surprised to find out that I get really---I mean really---bad reception in my new place in the Haight/Ashbury district in SF.
Now one might forgive them if it was only in my apartment since I am on the ground floor of a 3 story building, but it's not just that.
My whole block gets literally 0 reception. That is 0 bars, i.e. "Searching..." is displayed on the screen of my iPhone for multiple blocks in every direction.
This is nuts! I live in the Haight/Ashbury distract of San Francisco: a pretty hip area with lots of frustrated AT&T people. Everyone I talk to who still actually has AT&T are saying they will switch as soon as their contract is up.
I wonder what's so hard about this area that prevents AT&T from putting up cell towers...
Man was I surprised to find out that I get really---I mean really---bad reception in my new place in the Haight/Ashbury district in SF.
Now one might forgive them if it was only in my apartment since I am on the ground floor of a 3 story building, but it's not just that.
My whole block gets literally 0 reception. That is 0 bars, i.e. "Searching..." is displayed on the screen of my iPhone for multiple blocks in every direction.
This is nuts! I live in the Haight/Ashbury distract of San Francisco: a pretty hip area with lots of frustrated AT&T people. Everyone I talk to who still actually has AT&T are saying they will switch as soon as their contract is up.
I wonder what's so hard about this area that prevents AT&T from putting up cell towers...
How about getting ANY kind of 3G in the town of 60,000 people I live in on I-95 in Florida? I have to drive to the next county to find 3G service. Yet I pay the same as people who have lightning fast service all the time! 
I live in San Diego, last week I received a text message last week from at&t saying:
"AT&T Free Msg: Committed to enhancing ur wireless service, we added a new cell site @ "street name" & "street name" in San Diego, CA."
cell site is about 1/2 mile crow's flight from my home.
Now I get full 3G services in my house. No more switching between 2 bars 3G and full Edge while dropping calls. Very relieved.
"AT&T Free Msg: Committed to enhancing ur wireless service, we added a new cell site @ "street name" & "street name" in San Diego, CA."
cell site is about 1/2 mile crow's flight from my home.
Now I get full 3G services in my house. No more switching between 2 bars 3G and full Edge while dropping calls. Very relieved.
They must have broke what ever they did in San Francisco. There was a techcrunch article about this a few weeks ago and things were way faster and I actually got signal in my bathroom. However, a week or 2 after the article it all went down hill and its back to being crappy. No more signal in my bathroom and connection speeds are pretty painful.
Cisco iPhone App Measurement
I live on Eastern Long Island in the region that AT&T calls "Hamptons" on their 3G coverage maps. Coverage has been absolutely horrific since the launch of the 3Gs (which I own - received on release day). 3G and EDGE networks have been down constantly rolling back to a GPRS network. I have called AT&T on more than one occasion and confirmed that they were having trouble with "data service" and "3G" in our county. Every morning when I turn my phone on it takes at least 1-1.5 hours before my text messages arrive and I am alerted to voicemail. Since Monday I have noticed that there seems to be better throughput and coverage. I ran the Cisco GIST app and am averaging 37kbps in my office right now. Unfortunately all of my prior benchmarks were erased from the app at some point so I have no prior point of reference.
I live on Eastern Long Island in the region that AT&T calls "Hamptons" on their 3G coverage maps. Coverage has been absolutely horrific since the launch of the 3Gs (which I own - received on release day). 3G and EDGE networks have been down constantly rolling back to a GPRS network. I have called AT&T on more than one occasion and confirmed that they were having trouble with "data service" and "3G" in our county. Every morning when I turn my phone on it takes at least 1-1.5 hours before my text messages arrive and I am alerted to voicemail. Since Monday I have noticed that there seems to be better throughput and coverage. I ran the Cisco GIST app and am averaging 37kbps in my office right now. Unfortunately all of my prior benchmarks were erased from the app at some point so I have no prior point of reference.
Thats strange
Something may be wrong with your phone if you do not get a signal in Manhattan at all. I get a signal fine in San Francisco, NYC, Boston, and most places I go. This is great news they are expanding their network but I do not see these issues other people are complaining about on the ATT network with my 3Gs.
Something may be wrong with your phone if you do not get a signal in Manhattan at all. I get a signal fine in San Francisco, NYC, Boston, and most places I go. This is great news they are expanding their network but I do not see these issues other people are complaining about on the ATT network with my 3Gs.
Bring on Verizon. BTW - Lets say when Verizon gets the iPhone, you still have contract time with att... just sell the phone and use the cash to pay off att (give or take). But hurry, because you won't be the first doing it on Craigslist.
Then, get one at the subsidized price from Verizon.
EDIT: Suck it att!
Then, get one at the subsidized price from Verizon.
EDIT: Suck it att!
I wonder....
....for all those people who have poor service, what would happen if they used their friend's phone (on another service) and stood at the very same spot if they would have the same issues? It seems like most of the people who have problems are in concrete/steel structures or in some location that is just hard to get to.
....for all those people who have poor service, what would happen if they used their friend's phone (on another service) and stood at the very same spot if they would have the same issues? It seems like most of the people who have problems are in concrete/steel structures or in some location that is just hard to get to.
No it didn't. All AT&T had to do was enable to very simple setting on everyones account that had a iPhone and push a new carrier file, that's all. It had nothing to do with network upgrades. AT&T is just lazy.
Oh right.....enable a feature that will stress a network before the network is upgraded. I'm not an apologist for AT&T, I am as upset as the next guy, but get real.