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AT&T Nervous About Upcoming iPhone MMS Launch?

jav6454 said:
Where did you get this notion? It requires a Carrier Update from iTunes.
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This does seem like the most logical way for it to take place, and its what everybody has been assuming all along, but is there any REAL evidence to back it up?

has apple actually come out and said that? or att?

I'm not disagreeing by any means, because I'm assuming I'll have to update my carrier file through itunes too.. just curious..
 
I just figured that the carrier file is so small it could be something done over the air. I guess it would be eaiser but i looks like Itunes it will be.

Thanks.
 
str1f3 said:
This company has proven to be inept. I'm so sick of hearing about what they can't handle. They have been doing a lousy job and continue to do so. Apple has to end this exclusivity deal next year.
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AT&T was a cellular carrier. Then they went out of business because they couldn't do it right. But still wanted to be a phone company, so they bought cingular and tried again. Guess what... :)
 
I have a feeling that it boiled down to an exec saying he/she could save the company $$$ by over-utilizing the towers and shaving some upgrades. Really, I've seen too many companies skimping on things to save a dollar or two at the expense of customers, and in the end would actually cost the company a ton more money to resolve things.
 
Wow, AT&T has had FOREVER to prepare!

I guess they want to get away with spending as little as possible on providing service so they can spend that cash on marketing the iPhone.
 
Expect..

Expect a terrible delay in the ability to send a picture and we should all be happy. I bet some iphones wont be able to send pictures and video until next Friday.
 
macaco74 said:
I suspect this will be a failed launch - already making excuses.
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Where are you reading this. This is a DSLReports article. I don't see anything in there quoting AT&T.... Am I missing something?

I'm not a Rocket Scientist, but I DO know that it takes a little time for a Gallon of water to run through a straw.

The normal usage won't be that high, but the Initial Usage will....
 
..........? said:
but at least the network should be able to take at least 1/4 to 1/2 the people on the network sending mms at the same time.
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That would be a ridiculous amount of capacity.

johnmcboston said:
AT&T was a cellular carrier. Then they went out of business because they couldn't do it right. But still wanted to be a phone company, so they bought cingular and tried again. Guess what... :)
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You're forgetting that SBC bought AT&T in between those two events and then changed their name to AT&T. AT&T != AT&T.

However, AT&T Wireless (a separate company) was sold to Cingular(owned by SBC & Bell South) in 2004. Before SBC bought Bell South, and before they bought AT&T.

Confused yet?
 
Perhaps they should block the video MMS the first few days to get over the hump. Anyway, I'll have my iPhone on EDGE for a few days so my voice service doesn't get interrupted. Y2K!!!:p
 
The idiocracy of this company continues to amaze me beyond my widest imagination of idiots.
 
So, is this going to mean that sending SMS/MMS will be slow? Or that the already horrific number of failed and dropped calls will only get worse?

Frankly, I'd rather they didn't unveil MMS... I haven't found myself wishing I could send pics via SMS, email makes more sense.
 
cocky jeremy said:
*sigh* I really hope Verizon gets the iPhone. I’ll switch in two seconds. I hate AT&T, really, i do. :mad:
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Good luck using your Verizon phone overseas! I've had AT&T since 2004 and I would never switch to anything else. My iPhone works well no matter where I am in the world.
 
They should stagger it!

I'm happy to have MMS, but I haven't had it in 3 years. I also know everyone will go MMS happy for the first few days. Then it will drop down to normal traffic. They should charge an extra $3.00 a month for the service and people who really want it would sign up and pay. People who don't need it or use it often could go pay per use.

This would stop all the one time senders testing out the network.

Why AT&T would send a blanket text to all it's customers telling them to start testing MMS all day is beyond silly! I would have done ODD NUMBERS Friday and Even numbers Saturday.

I also would wait for Friday EOD @ 6:00 to launch service so that people who depend on their iPhone aren't out of work because of the network going down.


Just my two cents.

Kevin Leidecker
 
Oh great...another big fail for AT&T? What is wrong with them? Did they ever plan on rolling out MMS? How could they not be ready for this after 2 years of iPhones? Why do they always blame iPhone and iPhone users for their network issues?
 
I suspect everyone will try to sent one video/picture on Friday . . . it will take a while, perhaps a crash or two, everyone will complain, then Saturday or Sunday it will start to work, but only because not everyone is doing it all at once. Then the novelty will wear off for 80% of iphone users and they'll never use it again.

If AT&T can get through Friday (even with a few crashes) they'll be fine. Remember the iphone 2.0 launch? Everyone was syncing their mobileme data at the same time and the servers couldn't handle it. Once the initial bump wore off, it was fine.
 
str1f3 said:
This company has proven to be inept. I'm so sick of hearing about what they can't handle. They have been doing a lousy job and continue to do so. Apple has to end this exclusivity deal next year.
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Who are they going to use? TMobile. They don't even have a real 3G network yet. And they won't be going to Verizon or Sprint as those are CDMA networks. I think people need to learn that until Verizon rolls out LTE AT&T is the only carrier that will have the iPhone. And LTE is a long way off.
 
johnmcboston said:
AT&T was a cellular carrier. Then they went out of business because they couldn't do it right. But still wanted to be a phone company, so they bought cingular and tried again. Guess what... :)
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Actually Cingular bought AT&T and kept the AT&T name because it was better known.
 
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