http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/ Engadget Comments for AT&T activated 3.1 million iPhones last quarter, 1 million non-phones http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/Jan 28th 2010 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/
i knew someone had to say it :P]]>Jan 28th 2010 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/


Freaking iPad took almost all the web space already!!!]]>Jan 28th 2010 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/
For now on the iPad shall be known as MaxiPad....]]>Jan 28th 2010 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/Maxipad will be know as the successor to the Ipad. Expect it sometime next year lol]]>Jan 28th 2010 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/Jan 28th 2010 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/Jan 28th 2010 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/Jan 28th 2010 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/Jan 28th 2010 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/
lol]]>Jan 28th 2010 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/Jan 28th 2010 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/
Just sayin. Put your money where your mouth is.]]>Jan 28th 2010 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/
The 3GS does not operate on other US carriers. Either will the iPad.

If it was an option. people would have left by now. Much in the same way AT&T is back to their pre-breakup ways, they have managed to secure another monopoly to keep their profits up and service levels down. Shame on apple really..]]>Jan 28th 2010 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/Jan 28th 2010 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/
I'm actually ONLY using At&t Because of iPhone exclusivity. ]]>Jan 28th 2010 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/
Do network stress increase of over 4000% since the iPhone 3G mean anything to you

I bet it means a hell lot to AT&T who has to keep up their network a hundred times more than Verizon needs to.]]>Jan 28th 2010 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/
... instead my guess is that they will just continue to sit on it as long as their exclusive iPhone contract holds out.


Executive somewhere deep in the bowls of AT&T headquarters: "you guys ain't goin' no where... no matter how bad our service is"]]>Jan 28th 2010 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/Their service really isn't that bad. I've been on AT&T for ... about a decade now. Sometimes I have trouble connecting a call, but I work next to an MRI machine ... I can't expect much wireless technology to work. I can only remember a handful of dropped calls.

The trouble isn't AT&T so much as the 3G iPhone. It has obvious trouble switching a call from 3G to Edge when the phone starts requesting data while you're on a call, or if you lose a 3G signal. Other phones on AT&T, on a call at the same time, do not drop a call. If it were a tower or backend issue, the physically adjacent phone probably would drop the call at the same time.

AT&T has more geographic coverage than Verizon, a practically identical number of subscribers, and AT&T's Edge 2G network is as fast as Verizon's 3G network. Engadget did a bandwidth test about a year ago and showed this ... in the height of iPhone 3GS pandemonium. Others have reported similar results. AT&T is faster ... and if you're not using an iPhone 3G or 3GS, you rarely experience dropped calls.]]>Jan 28th 2010 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/Jan 28th 2010 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/I actually thought Verizon's Marketing was.....kickass and not so much Luke Wilson douchey ]]>Jan 28th 2010 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/You miss the point ... the point is to get the information yourself instead of buying into whichever advertisement campaign.

AT&T's commercials are just sad, though.]]>Jan 28th 2010 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/"The trouble isn't AT&T so much as the 3G iPhone."

I have the 1st iPhone still and the wife has a 3G and they both have a hell of a time staying on a network in Chicago. So, I blame AT&T. They drop calls constantly and run into either no data or bottleneck speeds every day...multiple times. So, the phones I like just fine - the network serving them needs improvement in Chicago at least. ]]>Jan 28th 2010 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/
"Get the information yourself"???

How about your stop trolling for AT&T and stop making excuses for their shit service.

I don't have an iPhone, and yet I have had AT&T for a few years now, and their service flat out sucks. I can be with my GF (who has Verizon), and there has not been one time where I had service and she didn't. Yet there are plenty of times where the opposite is true.

I fully realize that coverage is heavily dependent on geography, but if one carrier can cover and area very well, there is nothing but excuses as to why another carrier can't... especially one that is making money hand-over-fist like AT&T has been the past few quarters.]]>Jan 28th 2010 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/And I have the opposite experience. There are wide swaths of my geographic area that AT&T covers but which is left totally vacant by Verizon. Why does your experience take precedent over mine?

The quantifiable fact of the matter is that Verizon's 3G is comparable to AT&T's 2G, other situational variables aside. ]]>Jan 28th 2010 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/I read about a 3rd party company that drives around and dials numbers on all 4 major networks. I don't remember the exact numbers, but I recall Verizon being the best at somewhere around 98% and AT&T being number 2 at 97.2%. That's not a big jump, less than a full percent. Do you guys think the hardware in the iPhone itself could be causing some of the problems like the Razor did for awhile?]]>Jan 28th 2010 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/
I rather have a slower 3G experience than have no 3G experience at all.

My friend, who literally lives across the street from me (I can walk to his house in 15 seconds), does not get ANY service in my living room. Mind you, I get full signal on my Verizon phone.

When I say he does not get any service, I mean he doesn't get voice or 3g.]]>Jan 28th 2010 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/It's not so much that his experience takes precedence over yours but the number of people having similar experience to his. ]]>Jan 28th 2010 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/
You are the one that is claiming that it's somehow the iPhone's fault, when I don't have an iPhone and neither do any of my friends that are also on AT&T and still report the same shit service. It's the network, and in this area the network has the suck and if you ask most AT&T customers nationwide, they will say the same thing... and there have been plenty of customer surveys done in the past that back that up. Or are you going to dispute those also?

If in your individual area AT&T is somehow the better carrier, then by all means, continue to support them. But I know that there is no chance in hell that I will stick with them, and if they weren't locked into contracts (or had a phone through work), most of the people that I know would also drop AT&T.]]>Jan 28th 2010 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/
this is so repetitive, one post about att and ppl come bashing them. a) if you dont have att, i dont know what you are doing here bashing them and b) if you have att and its really not cutting it for you ... cancel it!! it was just that simple :) . and btw, their termination fee is pretty cheap so lets not even go their saying you can't afford to. what is it, like 175 but 5 bucks cheaper for every month? hmmmm i bet you are willing to pick up 2 360 games for 120 bucks but not cancel your service for being on average 6-8 months into the contract and paying 135 for a "really shitty service" ... oh and about that phone you bought, its called craiglist, need more ideas ? ]]>Jan 28th 2010 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/
I see the AT&T apologists are in full swing.

Congratulations for begin a shill for a multi-billion dollar company that can't even get the most basic part of their business correct.

There is no chance in hell that I am giving them any MORE of my money for the honor of terminating my service. From day one of my switch to AT&T I defended them against other carriers and simply attributed their horrible service to either temporary outages or that they were going to eventually fix the issues. Not so. I have a few months left on my contract which I can tolerate and wait for new phone prices to come down some, but no chance of sticking around after that.]]>Jan 28th 2010 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/Jan 28th 2010 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/Thanks.

Edobe
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That is all. ]]>Jan 28th 2010 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/Jan 28th 2010 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/
Engadget's Resident Comedian, Full of so much lawlz he is going to need an iPad to soak it up.]]>Jan 28th 2010 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/
I'm in Austin, TX and the only place I regularly have reception problems is on MoPac between two 50foot cliffs. Other than that I get good speeds and very few dropped calls. ]]>Jan 28th 2010 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/Jan 28th 2010 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/I believe most of the tech writers live in these two cities as well and gets reported on frequently.
]]>Jan 28th 2010 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/
I live in St. Louis, MO and coverage is very spotty. It might seem like I have 5 bars, but then I could be on highway 270 and watch my coverage drop to one bar. My phone has a few dropped calls a week, and many times SMS texts can't go through. MMS doesn't go through the majority of the time as well.

If Verizon had the Iphone I would switch in a heartbeat. ]]>Jan 28th 2010 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/Manhattan is TERRIBLE for AT&T / iPhone service. Took 10 minutes for me to check mail on several occasions!]]>Jan 28th 2010 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/I live outside Chicago and work in the city itself. Service is spotty in both areas and in between. Heck, I should be able to get full data and voice service without a hitch when standing on LaSalle, and most often data is MIA. ]]>Jan 28th 2010 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/
Orlando, FL has pretty crappy coverage. Especially the metro east area. I can barely get 3G out by UCF (only 15 mi from downtown), and end up with dropped calls daily. Sadly, T-mobile is even worse, and I'm not ever going back to Verizon again.

In contrast, St. Louis coverage (where I'm originally from) has awesome 3G coverage, even in the suburbs some 30 miles from downtown.]]>Jan 28th 2010 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/
Not mind blowing network coverage!]]>Jan 28th 2010 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/Jan 28th 2010 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/
...this made me lol lots.]]>Jan 28th 2010 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/Jan 28th 2010 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/
On a more serious note, this underscores the fact that AT&T is going to do whatever they can....*whatever* it takes... to keep the iPhone an exclusive. Yesterday's cheaper data deal on the iPad might have been part of that. Sounds from the rumors that Verizon has a deal in place already once the exclusivity date expires. If not, AT&T will pay anything short of losing money to keep the iPhone as an exclusive device. (As much as it pains me to say that.)]]>Jan 28th 2010 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/Jan 28th 2010 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/
So is iPhone desirable?

Guess those , there's a map for that ads didn't make a dent in AT&T sales agree?

AT&T is number one smartphone carrier on the planet.

Verizon is number one dumbphone carrier in USA agree?just look at the numbers.

]]>Jan 28th 2010 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/atandt-activated-3-1-million-iphones-last-quarter-1-million-non-p/Eh AT&T lives off of the iPhone. ]]>Jan 28th 2010 12:00PM