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AT&T Nervous About Upcoming iPhone MMS Launch?

When is Apple going to ditch AT&T and go with Verizon for phone service?

I'm sick of being 10 miles from the AT&T line, thus unable to get an iPhone.
 
I *really* hope that Apple gets smart and drops the AT&T exclusive deal. AT&T is pretty worthless. They have had many months to load test this, having a system crumble with a small test group is totally unacceptable.
 
Where the hell is all of this money going that they are scamming from us by over-charging for SMS already? My guess is into the pockets of the board members and senior management.

edit: BTW, please give it up cell network fanboys. I've had them all and they are ALL THE SAME!
 
I hope this does 2 things:
-Make AT&T upgrade its service (ie more towers, more servers, more everything else)
-Make Apple let go of its exclusivity to AT&T & let more carriers. If we can get Verizon, T-Mobile & Sprint to come, that should help even out the demand. Plus, it'll bring all those would-be iPhone buyers over who just loathe AT&T, meaning more $$$ for Apple.
 
I hope it fails. For three years straight, AT&T has fracked the activation process. If Apple hasn't had serious talks with other US carriers, then this fail should prompt them to.
 
It might just be me, but when O2 enabled MMS shortly after 3.0 was released, well the novelty wore off pretty quickly.
Saying that, I've used Vcards a couple of times and I do enjoy that convenience :]
 
opuslab said:
My iPhone works well no matter where I am in the world.
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Funny, I have trouble getting it to work in downtown Boston. If you're in a location with a lot of people, like South Station or Tech Square, you have problems. Phone calls may work, but all your data requests time out. I can only assume it's a capacity issue that they don't feel like addressing...
 
I must have different friends than most people. I get maybe 3-4 MMS messages a month sent at me, is it really that much of a strain? Well, we all know AT&T's network sucks ass, I guess it's not too surprising.
 
I'm confused on how letting iPhone users send MMS is going to create an "End of the World" experience for AT&T. My old phones could send MMS and the networks are capable of sending MMS so what is the cause for all of the calamity?

Is it the sheer volume of iPhone users that imposes this 'Y2K' fear from AT&T?

****We should all send MMS @ once to show AT&T how much we are sick of their excuses! :D ****
 
I don't think AT&T is saying they won't be able to handle the regular MMS traffic, but the massive influx of traffic caused by iPhone users trying out MMS. It's highly likely that even those who have no plans to use MMS in the future are going to at least try it out tomorrow, overloading the servers. This would happen with any carrier. Also, remember the release of the iPhone 3G and 2.0. Apple had big problems with their servers because of the increased traffic. The same thing is going to happen to AT&T's servers tomorrow, possibly on a much larger scale.

I'm not a fan of AT&T either, but it's unfair to say that any issue is because of their incompetence and that Verizon/Sprint/T-Mobile or whatever wouldn't be faced with a similar situation if one of them were the exclusive carrier instead.
 
Baywatchboy said:
Actually Cingular bought AT&T and kept the AT&T name because it was better known.
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No, Cingular bought AT&T WIreless. and changed their name to Cingular. Later, SBC bought AT&T and Bell South (who co-owned Cingular), and changed the name of EVERYBODY to AT&T.
 
IronCross said:
I think it's more the fact that of the millions of iPhone users, you have to think at least a few hundred thousand, or a million, are gonna slam the servers all at once.

I don't care what carrier it is, adding that much additional load all at the same time is gonna hurt.
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This.

Mind you, I don't know what that's like, since I'm with Rogers up here in Canada. We've had MMS since the first day of the 3.0 release. Pretty smooth sailing so far. Thethering is included, too, no extra charge. I suppose it as rather slow on New Year's Eve each year, but I don't recall offhand.
 
eh270 said:
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.
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It's the other people with older phones who don't have that option and so have to use MMS to send pictures to the iPhone. That's why MMS is needed.
 
clowns

ugh so tired of these clowns. Ive had issues with my last 3 monthly bills in a row. As much as i like my iphone, my pleasure with the hardware no longer overshadows the bs i put up with to be on an AT&T network. I am VERY close to jumping to sprint now that they have that 70/month all inclusive deal. I still prefer the iphone but i think i could 'get by' with a pre or a hero. It would be worth it just to be done with att and hopefully wait it out til Apple finally gets out of that exclusivity agreement because it is utterly destroying the user experience of their phone...
 
cantthinkofone said:
Absolutely ridiculous their network can't handle a few pictures and videos from iphones.
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the way folks have been screaming about this, they are guessing it won't be 'a few', more like they assume that no one will bother with a simple text anymore. of course this is not likely but if they figure it will be no big deal and it is and kills the system they look like douchebags.

I heard they actually sent a reminder out to all iphones a couple of days ago, probably so if things do crash they can say that no one should be freaking, something new was launched. great move.
 
Oh good grief

I'm sick of all the whining about how people wish Verizon would get the iPhone. These same individuals would then piss and moan about Verizon when the network didn't give them what they wanted...which is perfection.

Sorry, but I live in the real world where you don't get all you want for free or things don't always work the way you want them to work. I've been with AT&T since before they were Cingular. Has it always been good? No. Has it always been bad? No. A few dropped calls here and there, a little lag on the network during peak times, but all in all, I like AT&T. Verizon is not all it's cracked up to be, NO wireless network could meet the demands of some people here. They always seem to want another company to step in and save the day...reminds me a lot of football fans whose savior is the guy who is sitting on the bench. Then when they get him...they find out he's not that good either and begin again to bitch about him and wanting the next guy on the bench.

The moral of the story...be happy...it's not that hard, seriously.
 
ha its going to turn into the dmv where you have to wait in line to send your mms. "please hold and your picture will be sent in the order it was received."
 
*sigh*

this has fail written all over it.

at least people won't be able to argue that the data throughput of the iphone isn't drastically higher than other phones. but it's still sad it takes so long for a cellular giant to move.
 
Manzana said:
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?
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I think it is interesting it is all AT&Ts fault for this. I seem to remember a company that came out with an iPhone not capable of MMS because they were going to change the world into using email instead. Guess what, they were wrong and have now left AT&T high and dry to add millions of users. ANY cell phone company would have troubles with this so don't expect it to be flawless.
 
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