Dang... Steve Jobs must be pissssed. I'd love to hear the conversations going on between Apple and AT&T right now though.
To me though, especially after working with Sprint for over a year (far more evil than Cingular, and no one is less evil than AT&T) is that... what choice would have been a good one? Sprint sucks. AT&T Sucks. Verizon sucks (and not available in many areas). The little companies suck. Everyone in this industry sucks. And yeah, I'd have loved Apple to have made the iPhone network generic - but we all should know better than this, Apple doesn't leave variables open.
But.. heh... it does look like AT&T sold them a big load.
In Oklahoma, at least, I've not had any problems with the Edge network yet. Working as of right now.
Verizon has probably the most available (and most reliable) network in the U.S. The only problem with Verizon is that they cripple their phones, but again, the service is unmatchable.
Try using O2. I've rarely ever had problems with them. I really like their home-zone feature, which gives me a separate, low-cost number for a small geographical region around my home. Coverage is great (generally only unavailable when a store is jamming GSM). Never have dropped calls. Wait! I forgot, they aren't available in the U.S. Too bad!
Which would I rather have: reliable service, or the iPhone? Europe's reliable service probably (and I even have a pitiful Sony phone with the world's worst interface).
i am using t-mobile in the US right now - there seems to be no real explanation as to why the U.S. carriers suck so bad - they are some of the most profitable operators in the world, yet they just don't seem to be able to build out their networks enough so that there's ubiquitous coverage.
and i am not talking about the countryside here - this is in the SF bay area, home to over 6m people and half the high tech companies in the U.S.!
i didn't have problems like this in 3rd world countries, let alone in europe. it's mystifying.
as for the article: umm... i am not really surprised that adding 500,000+ users to the EDGE network will bring it to its knees. no one was using that before iPhone b/c it sucks and it was expensive.
The reason why Verizon is reliable is because they use CDMA which has been in use since WWII and has a 46 year advantage over GSM which AT&T and many other cell companies use. GSM has only been around since 91 and hasn't been the widely accepted cell format like it is in Europe. Because of its history CDMA has been approved upon over so many generations of the networks life while GSM in the States is still in its infancy.
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Dang... Steve Jobs must be pissssed. I'd love to hear the conversations going on between Apple and AT&T right now though.
To me though, especially after working with Sprint for over a year (far more evil than Cingular, and no one is less evil than AT&T) is that... what choice would have been a good one? Sprint sucks. AT&T Sucks. Verizon sucks (and not available in many areas). The little companies suck. Everyone in this industry sucks. And yeah, I'd have loved Apple to have made the iPhone network generic - but we all should know better than this, Apple doesn't leave variables open.
But.. heh... it does look like AT&T sold them a big load.
In Oklahoma, at least, I've not had any problems with the Edge network yet. Working as of right now.
Verizon has probably the most available (and most reliable) network in the U.S. The only problem with Verizon is that they cripple their phones, but again, the service is unmatchable.
Try using O2. I've rarely ever had problems with them. I really like their home-zone feature, which gives me a separate, low-cost number for a small geographical region around my home. Coverage is great (generally only unavailable when a store is jamming GSM). Never have dropped calls. Wait! I forgot, they aren't available in the U.S. Too bad!
Which would I rather have: reliable service, or the iPhone? Europe's reliable service probably (and I even have a pitiful Sony phone with the world's worst interface).
i am using t-mobile in the US right now - there seems to be no real explanation as to why the U.S. carriers suck so bad - they are some of the most profitable operators in the world, yet they just don't seem to be able to build out their networks enough so that there's ubiquitous coverage.
and i am not talking about the countryside here - this is in the SF bay area, home to over 6m people and half the high tech companies in the U.S.!
i didn't have problems like this in 3rd world countries, let alone in europe. it's mystifying.
as for the article: umm... i am not really surprised that adding 500,000+ users to the EDGE network will bring it to its knees. no one was using that before iPhone b/c it sucks and it was expensive.
The reason why Verizon is reliable is because they use CDMA which has been in use since WWII and has a 46 year advantage over GSM which AT&T and many other cell companies use. GSM has only been around since 91 and hasn't been the widely accepted cell format like it is in Europe. Because of its history CDMA has been approved upon over so many generations of the networks life while GSM in the States is still in its infancy.
I dunno about that... Sprint is using CDMA as well... and Sprint sucks. There's more to it than network tech, much more.