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AT&T Nervous About Upcoming iPhone MMS Launch?
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thank you! will this add the little camera next to the text imput so i can easily attach the photos?
LOL!!!!!!!!! I was sending MMS's all day yesterday and then for about a 5 hour period, it stopped working. That must have been the outage!!! And I helped...
*sigh* I really hope Verizon gets the iPhone. Ill switch in two seconds. I hate AT&T, really, i do.
don't hold your breath at least not for it to happen any time soon.
Verizon is CDMA not GSM. It is not cost effective for Apple to go back and reinvent the wheel to make a Verizon iphone.
So until ATT loses their contract (assuming Apple doesn't just offer the iphone up to t-mobile exclusively) Verizon wouldn't be able to handle the phone until they have coverage on the same tech that Apple decides to use, whatever that tech might be.
Same thing for Sprint
This is getting better and better! Really At&t... Seems to me you have several phone models and plans that support MMS... I really hope they fail epically in this. Late Summer pushh'... Tethering announcements, maybe in a decade, when you have all switched carriers...
Att, you've ignored the iPhone community, now your gonna do it hour by hour... lets see how many times in one day your network slows to a crawl.
+1 Negative
Att, you've ignored the iPhone community, now your gonna do it hour by hour... lets see how many times in one day your network slows to a crawl.
+1 Negative
I'd never actually use the MMS feature on a regular basis but come Friday I'm going to send tons of them.
I agree 100,000,000,000%
if MMS is that a problem what will happen when we get tethering?
Seems mobile networks need some mayor upgrades. good for jobs and the economy.
Seems mobile networks need some mayor upgrades. good for jobs and the economy.
Verizon vs. AT&T
If you've had both... you know Verizon is a much better experience.
I travel a ton, throughout the US and overseas. Verizon works almost everywhere... and I mean EVERYWHERE... whereas AT&T still covers about 10% of the land mass of the US. Yes they have roaming agreements with other GSM-based networks, but where i've had fast data access for years AT&T simply doesn't work. In urban areas, there is coverage, but it's so overloaded it's almost worthless. In rural areas, there's no coverage to begin with... it's all hype.
Verizon offers overseas service by giving you a GSM-capable phone with decent per-minute rates, while AT&T offers you overseas service for an eye-popping $3.49 a minute. No thanks AT&T.
If you happen to live in a suburban area... on the fringe of rural-dom and outside of a densely populated area, AT&T probably works okay for you. Taking a road-trip? You'll fall back to EDGE or no data as soon as you're outside the urban jungle. Verizon? EVDO the whole way.
AT&T has invested tens of millions in improving its infrastructure... and for all we know Verizon would have some of the same problems due to the high demands iPhone users have placed on the network... but it would be interesting to see how the service improved if both carriers were fighting to retain their iPhone-wielding customers...
If you've had both... you know Verizon is a much better experience.
I travel a ton, throughout the US and overseas. Verizon works almost everywhere... and I mean EVERYWHERE... whereas AT&T still covers about 10% of the land mass of the US. Yes they have roaming agreements with other GSM-based networks, but where i've had fast data access for years AT&T simply doesn't work. In urban areas, there is coverage, but it's so overloaded it's almost worthless. In rural areas, there's no coverage to begin with... it's all hype.
Verizon offers overseas service by giving you a GSM-capable phone with decent per-minute rates, while AT&T offers you overseas service for an eye-popping $3.49 a minute. No thanks AT&T.
If you happen to live in a suburban area... on the fringe of rural-dom and outside of a densely populated area, AT&T probably works okay for you. Taking a road-trip? You'll fall back to EDGE or no data as soon as you're outside the urban jungle. Verizon? EVDO the whole way.
AT&T has invested tens of millions in improving its infrastructure... and for all we know Verizon would have some of the same problems due to the high demands iPhone users have placed on the network... but it would be interesting to see how the service improved if both carriers were fighting to retain their iPhone-wielding customers...
Some partner Apple is turning out to be... You'd think Apple would give technical advice to at&t about setting up a service that will be woefully unprepared and tell at&t how to avoid "the MobieMe" experience! After all, the end user, the customer, is the one who gets screwed!
It's actually dead simple... in some cases it's a software change, for others it's swapping out a chipset. It's the same level of complexity as upgrading the camera in the iPhone 3GS...
"AT&T Nervous About Upcoming iPhone MMS Launch?"
"AT&T Nervous About Upcoming iPhone MMS Launch?"
They Should Be...
Ryan
+1 Neg. , +1 for sending as many MMS' as possible Friday then calling AT&T to complain. Might even go to my AT&T store and say, "can you guys call me cuz I don't think my phones working?"
"AT&T Nervous About Upcoming iPhone MMS Launch?"
They Should Be...
Ryan
+1 Neg. , +1 for sending as many MMS' as possible Friday then calling AT&T to complain. Might even go to my AT&T store and say, "can you guys call me cuz I don't think my phones working?"
AT&T has failed from the beginning of this MMS launch from Apple leaving them out of the screen at MacWorld to AT&T missing " by the end of summer". The icing on the cake was the picture AT&T flaunts on it's first MMS page showing a girl holding a first gen iPhone!
AT&T really does equal FAIL!!!!
AT&T really does equal FAIL!!!!
*sigh* I really hope Verizon gets the iPhone. Ill switch in two seconds. I hate AT&T, really, i do.
Verizon with the iPhone is absolutely going to toast their capacity as well. Actually, if Verizon gets iPhone, it will be the perfect time to signup with AT&T, since the bulk of strain will move to Verizon...AT&T should have smooth sailing at that point.
I remember when Cingular was Pacific Bell Wireless. I loved PacBell Wireless. It was never the same when Cingular bought them. That's when I switched to Verizon where I was happy for 6 years or so. Came to AT&T with the iPhone. The network has not made me happy, but I'm not a huge cell phone user so I can deal. However, I am damn sick of hearing AT&T's excuses again. And the excuse are starting before the MMS rollout... AT&T will need to erect an invisible force field to repel all of the negative publicity they will be getting this weekend
I actually don't mind AT&T. Are they overpriced, yes. Do I get more dropped calls, sometimes. But, anytime I've called AT&T they've met my expectations and I've had two instances were I messed up on my bill and got a ton of overages, which they greatly reduced or waived. Also, I've traveled in Europe and having my iPhone available to make calls was amazing. I'm sure with all the iPhone uses sending MMS on Friday there will be some problems, but they will get it sorted out and things will go on.
All that being said, I would love it if the iPhone came to Verizon, but I'd stay with AT&T for the time being. I just want more competition and choice, it keeps prices down.
All that being said, I would love it if the iPhone came to Verizon, but I'd stay with AT&T for the time being. I just want more competition and choice, it keeps prices down.
swingerofbirch
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Seeing all this I'm glad I have waited for the iphone to come to verizon. I don't mind waiting so much anyway. I never really get a hankering for an iphone until right before the new one comes out and then it dissipates. Who knows what aspirations may rise again come this next summer. I guess I figure even if the one that comes out this summer isn't verizon capable the next one the following year will be and it'll be that much better
its really just sad. in 2002 i began sending picture messages on TMobile with my first gen RAZR.
I can't believe we are having this conversation 7 years later.
Also, in 2002 i paid 5 dollars for unlimited texts, including pictures. I find it funny that my unlimited ATT texting plan is 20/month and I can't send pictures. often times i even have to send the same text again because it didn't go through the first time.
When people start jumping ship to another carrier with the iPhone, I'm almost tempted to stay with ATT because maybe they'll be left with 94 customers throughout the US, and that will be perfect for the amount of data their network can handle.
I can't believe we are having this conversation 7 years later.
Also, in 2002 i paid 5 dollars for unlimited texts, including pictures. I find it funny that my unlimited ATT texting plan is 20/month and I can't send pictures. often times i even have to send the same text again because it didn't go through the first time.
When people start jumping ship to another carrier with the iPhone, I'm almost tempted to stay with ATT because maybe they'll be left with 94 customers throughout the US, and that will be perfect for the amount of data their network can handle.
What CAN'T AT&T screw up?
folks talk like none of this would happen on any of the other services. when it fact it very possibly could. same thing for the rate plans etc.
okay so they go for a slow rollout. whoever is on the back end would be having fits major. at least by doing it over the course of one day no one should moan too much. well at least until it crashes
sure they CAN. they CAN do whatever they want. they CAN make itunes sync to any usb player or phone, they CAN make clones work without hacking, they CAN put blu-ray drives in their machines.
but they don't want to. and they legally don't have to. they could have not had an exclusive contract, they could have both GSM and CDMA etc. but for whatever reason it was deemed not a profitable idea (just like right now clones and blu-ray are not profitable by their standards).
Having set this standard it is highly unlikely that they will go back to the drawing board to make a CDMA phone, especially when, as you noted, Verizon is supposedly ramping up their 4g in the hopes that there will be a tablet, it will have a cell connection and it won't be on the ATT contract. if this is all true and the 4g is the same flavor that Apple is considering moving to it is better for all (and it seems like only Sprint is talking about the other form so it seems a go). why wouldn't Apple focus on LTE which is the future, rather than CDMA which is the past.
Apple is not a cell service, doesn't want to be. that's why they did this deal in the first place.
Just end the exclusivity. Even if by some strange miracle that Apple releases an EvDO iPhone, not EVERYONE will jump ship to Verizon. If anything, it'll be a decent split and everyone will be happy since the boat isn't leaning on one side anymore, since the bandwidth demand will decrease for AT&T and increase for Verizon.
iPhone users on both sides of the fence will be happy, Verizon will be happy, and for AT&T, well, the exodus will be bittersweet. They'll lose that precious revenue, but then again, we may never need to see Seth the Blogger Guy ever again.