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AT&T Announces iPhone MMS Launch for 'Late Morning' Pacific Time Friday

Letting my friends know they can't reach me on Friday. I am sure the regular network will be hell on earth for the rest of us without iPhones. Can't wait to drop ATT, only a few more months left before I'm out of contract. At this point I would only consider an iPhone if it moves to Verizon.
 
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It's a matter of principle. I say no one uses MMS until Saturday, at high noon- and then we all give Att a piece. Heck I'm sure Steve Jobs will love AT&T once his service is down too.
 
toneloco2881 said:
I don't really understand all this vitriol for AT&T. They were the only carrier initially willing to sign off on the iPhone, sight unseen, and have tried their best keeping up with the enormous bandwith consumed by iPhone users.

Any carrier would be under the exact same pressure if they had iPhone users consuming bandwith an order of magnitude greater than other smartphone users. Most people I know with Blackberry and WinMo phones use them to just text, DM, and talk. If people here think if the iPhone was suddenly on Verizon that all the network issues would be immediately rectified, you"re sadly mistaken.

Then you actually have people wanting to try their best to bring down the AT&T network, and use that as justification for why they're incompetent?

Idiots.....
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As an outsider looking in, I must say I'm baffled by the seemingly lacking level of enthusiasm that AT&T seem to have regarding their iPhone customers, but even more so the ability of some to defend their actions as reasonable. I'm sure everyone remembers that screen full of carrier logos Apple put up at the announcement of MMS, they were all the carriers of other countries who seemed to have no problem at all 'switching on' MMS the day it was released.

We're lucky enough in my part of the world to have iPhone on multiple carriers, with that comes choice, and competition. All of them scrambling to offer better deals, better service, better coverage. What you have there in the US is a 'monopoly' on the 'iPhone market' (obviously not in a legal sense), but its one service provider with very little incentive to offer anything above the bare minimum.

The sooner Apple ends this 'exclusive agreement' nonsense, the better off you will all be.
 
Ok is it just me or did ANYONE else notice that AT&T said "MMS SHOULD be ready to go"?

I predict that for the whole weekend the entire AT&T network will be down and that some people won't be able to use MMS until next week.
 
satcomer said:
Late West Coast Time?! Wow living on the East coast makes me a second class tech citizen. When will these damn US tech companies realize that the USA is more than California?
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Hold on! There's life outside of California? Who knew?
 
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Late morning = 11:59:59 am PST

AT&T network crash = 12:00:01 pm PST
 
Prepare for an even WORSE AT&T network!

How to transform iPhones into iPod Touchs-- overnight!!
 
You guys SERIOUSLY overestimate the popularity of MMS! There will be ZERO network problems.

Mark
 
Xenu007 said:
How to transform iPhones into iPod Touchs-- overnight!!
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I think i actually LOL'd at this. good times.
im just still wondering if i need the 3.1 update =(
i konw its been asked, but im still curious. i hear 3.1 is a little buggy, i'd love to just have the mms carrier update.
 
So, put me down for TWO predictions:

1) Apple and AT&T will require iTunes 9 and iPhone firmware 3.1 to be able to install the new MMS-compatible carrier file.

2) Zero network problems due to installing the new MMS-compatible carrier file.

Mark
 
Mark Booth said:
So, put me down for TWO predictions:

1) Apple and AT&T will require iTunes 9 and iPhone firmware 3.1 to be able to install the new MMS-compatible carrier file.

2) Zero network problems due to installing the new MMS-compatible carrier file.

Mark
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I think you’re wrong on both, but even if Apple “required” 3.1, all it would take is someone posting up the carrier update online then you could install it yourself on 3.0 or 3.0.1 and it’d still work fine. From 3.0 on, the firmware has been MMS ready.
 
Mark Booth said:
You are the type of person I am talking about in my #2 above! When you install the "legal" MMS carrier settings, I'm betting those that hacked their iPhones for MMS will be the ones with problems. :)

Mark
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No, it has been working ever since I upgraded to 3.1. I haven't hacked my phone.
 
Anyway, my prediction for Friday: the places that have had problems...will have more/worse problems. Meanwhile, iPhones in parts of the country that haven't had problems probably will keep working fine, with maybe a bit of slowing.

Also, after the initial euphoria from MMS beginning to work, iPhone users will go back to their normal usage, so the network should be less overloaded. :D
 
aduzik said:
Why wouldn't AT&T...turn it on (overnight) when utilization is the lowest? That way usage will ramp up over the course of the day, instead of creating a great big spike in the late morning. This just seems like they don't know what they're doing. Fancy that, AT&T being clueless.
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I thought i read that they're going to turn it on in waves, so some people will have it turned on at, say, noon EDT, some at 1 pm, some at 2, etc, spread over perhaps a five or six hour period. I like your company's method, but it would allow everyone to start using it at 9 or whenever a.m., whereas by the method i think ATTs using, maybe 10 or 20% can use it at that hour, another 10 or 20% an hour or two later, etc. Rather than clueless, it seems like a prudent refinement to your company's good approach.
 
michael31986 said:
so late morning pacific means what for eastern?
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Is this a serious question? Do you know how time zones work?

11am Pacific = 2pm Eastern. I say 11am because, in my book, that is late morning.

I doubt they will flip the switch on for all at once. I think some will get turned on at say 8am Pacific, then 9am, and so on. I think the goal is to have the country done by noon pacific.

Noon pacific = 3pm Eastern.
 
teacher here

Andronicus said:
... We should all (everyone with an iPhone) send an mms at the same time & try to crash their network. ...If we crash their network maybe they will double their efforts to provide a reliable network... I hope you fail AT&T.
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I understand the frustration with apple and att (remember, they're in this together). I get great service at my home in greater cincinnati and in any number of other places when i travel, and horrible, wholly unsatisfactory service at my home in st petersburg. So I'd like things improved too. My objections to posts like yours, Andronicus, is with the attitude of hoping they fail. It reeks of Rush Limbaugh hoping Obama fails. Unless you're an anarchist, and certainly with situations involving your phone company, for gods' sake, or our president, that's not a position i'd endorse, I'd like to see people advocate for change, not for tearing down. Have the whiners here complained to the FCC? Have they complained to ATT that their service is so bad they should be let out of their contract? I doubt it. It's easy to holler "tear it down," "i hope it fails," "you're ugly I hope you die", but those aren't very mature responses and more importantly they're not very effective. There are more effective things we can--and should--do. End of rant.

Not that Verizon would act any differently. But, if Verizon were to get the iPhone, I'd switch just to spite AT&T!
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Go stand in the corner for a while and think about that logic.
 
tmiw said:
Then why all the nervousness from AT&T? If only a few people use it then they should have nothing to worry about.
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They're just managing expectations. They know they're under the microscope from consumers, the blogs, and Apple with how this turns out. So they're painting the worst possible scenario so that when it goes off without a hitch they'll look like they did a really good job being prepared.

I frankly don't expect any problems. In the 2ish years I've own iPhones I think i've have less than 10 people try to MMS me where I get that "viewmymessage" link. And I've rarely had the inclination to send one. Maybe that'll change with the new ability to do so, but I don't expect any issues.

Although I found it really funny that one of the articles reporting this impending MMS-pocolypse said that at&t reported, "...heightened usage at late night hours that strained the network heavily..."

Maybe my mind's in the gutter? Or people have pent up (s)exting needs now that they can mms?
 
rtdunham said:
I'll bet you're a pain in the ass on the playground, too. Does the family let you join it at dinner? Grow up!

(ditto to macduke, micahfreak82, mr matalino; sounds like the whole kindergarten class is here)
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Oh come on! Let them have their fun. I doubt they'd actually do nothing but send MMS messages. It's a message board, let them vent if they want.
 
xraydoc said:
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Late morning = 11:59:59 am PST

AT&T network crash = 12:00:01 pm PST
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Nah. You're about one second too long in your prediction. :D
 
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