people here really dont have land lines? o and the fact you dont get service in your house att cant do anything about unless you buy a microcell due to the way your house was built.
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AT&T Announces Completion of 3G Enhancement Project in New York City
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Agreed.
the EDGE service in Manhattan IS improved but 3G still blows bigtime. And let's not even talk about other areas. Try using an AT&T phone to call someone in B's Ikea!!!
Agreed. Although I think AT&T realizes the situation is like the oil spill in the gulf... their now trying to contain the damage by switching to capped data plans.
yah...these upgrades aren't done..from my midtown office, service still sucks and every time I go over the williamsburg bridge, right before I hit the city I always drop my call unless I am going like 50 miles an hour on the bridge (which doesn't happen on a weekday morning)
Folks, the whole discussion is pointless since the article was corrected and now merely states that the 3G improvements in the NYC area are in fact not finished at all.
Greetings from a bus stop in Hamburg, Germany, where I'm currently indulging in full 3G reception.
Greetings from a bus stop in Hamburg, Germany, where I'm currently indulging in full 3G reception.
An issue that's growing tired and has been blown way, WAY out of proportion. I can only speak anecdotally, of course, but the four iPhone 4's in my immediate family are working brilliantly and none of my co-workers that managed to score the new hardware have complained about call stability. We share quite a few fun 'war stories' about how we're using the new capabilities, and the whole 'grip of death' has been discussed, but none of us are experiencing problems with making/receiving/maintaining calls.
Fantastic!! ATT announces completion of its upgrade and allegedly fixing for New York City. which is only 468.9 sq mi
Less if you take the outer boroughs out of the equation.
Why not also help Los Angeles??? i am getting sick of dropped calls, no access to Data at all sometimes and more.
At&T sucks, if they don't improve soon, im taking a hike to Verizon, T-Mobile or Sprint as soon as Iphone is avail elsewhere.
Less if you take the outer boroughs out of the equation.
Why not also help Los Angeles??? i am getting sick of dropped calls, no access to Data at all sometimes and more.
At&T sucks, if they don't improve soon, im taking a hike to Verizon, T-Mobile or Sprint as soon as Iphone is avail elsewhere.
Switch to another smartphone and leave now. It will not take long for you to realize that the iPhone and AT&T are severely limiting, especially in Los Angeles.
i get that the opposite way.. no service around Marcy Ave, but its fine going into the city (on train)
I wonder how long it will be before AT&T starts giving them away with an extended contract. Talk about taking a load off their network...
Well I'm out of the city May-August so I'd love to see some serious improvement when I get back up there in September.
Not keeping my hopes up.
I was thinking about switching to Verizon but I've decided to get the iPhone 4 and a landline instead. Sad that I have to make that choice.
Not keeping my hopes up.
I was thinking about switching to Verizon but I've decided to get the iPhone 4 and a landline instead. Sad that I have to make that choice.
Sucks I had to buy an HTC EVO just to provide Data/ mobile wifi 4G to my iphone. Get on the ball At&t, 3g is Junk. I hit 5.5 mps D/L speed posing this from mobile hotspot
Yup. Or, to make it a bit more personal, good old Mom.
Actually, I have a zBoost. It did help, but in a perverse enough way that I gave up on it in this (old & partially stucco'ed) house. I wound up with some little micro-zones of excellent signal and a few of none. And they either moved around or I was obsessing enough to become spiritualist.
Radio is tricky. 850Mhz and 1900Mhz behave differently. It would take neat tech to cover skyscraper cities well.
On wifi? That's not really mobile, is it.
I sure hope for you americans that ATT are hurrying with introducing real 4G for you. Appearantly they have a huge LTE-deal already in the pipe so you can get a great 100Mbps cellphone network (already up and running by TeliaSonera in Stockholm and Oslo.
http://www.intomobile.com/2009/12/1...lte-network-arrive-37-ms-ping-5-3-mbps-up-43/
This is till holding and improving showing average (yes average) DL speed of 15-20Mbps today.
also, notice that latency.
Another note, remember that reception is not everything. Even if you have good signal strength, the physical (backbone?) network could be so crowded with users so you don't fit in there. Although, if you have bad reception it won't really matter how congested the rest of the network is ;D
I work for a company that conducts phone surveys for govt. projects. From the latest numbers, approx. 20% of households in the US are now "cell phone only". This % has tripled since 5 years ago, and doubled just within the last 18 months. The number is over 50% in most of Europe. It's a serious problem for doing surveys, as there is no "bank" of cell phone numbers tied to an address and the rules for dialing cell phones are very different (no autodialers). Many companies are moving toward using online panels to replace phone surveys, as recent studies are showing the representativeness of those outpacing traditional phone surveys. Expect the accuracy of opinion and political polls to diminish considerably over the next 10 years as phone survey accuracy fades and web survey accuracy improves.
iPhone 3G? Do you get poor reception on your telegraph too?
Some folks like their $300 investments to last longer than a year
Me three. You'd think with all of those new buildings going up they would sell some tower space to AT&T.
I hit that "Mark the Spot APP" at least a couple of times a week.
Annoying.
accuracy?
In what universe do polls and accuracy have anything to do with each other?
In what universe do polls and accuracy have anything to do with each other?