I can't speak for anyone else that's having problems with the iPhone 3G, but in my case (in the Chicago suburbs) the problem hasn't been reception so much as 3G to 2G handdown. There are places where the 3G coverage is great, four or five bars, and the phone performs excellently.
The bigger problems I've seen is that when there is only one bar of 3G service, the phone will sit there and grind trying to set up a data connection or fail to make a voice call, when I know full well there's plenty of 2G available. I've even seen the phone say "No Service" when I know there's a 2G network there. I can then go turn off the 3G in the settings, and the phone will work.
Maybe there are other people who have defective phones that have poor reception because of some hardware or software issue. In my case, it seems like my "unreliability" is caused by an unwillingness of the phone to hand down to 2G. It means that when I only have one bar, I never know whether the darned thing is going to work or not, and that, in a word, is maddening.
You need to figure out that (a) advertising != marketing and that the terms of service are part of the marketing of a product, (b) that using the word "idiot" in your posts does not make you seem smart, and (c) if you're going to tell someone to "get a brain," you should at least be able to write decent sentences.
AT&T Wireless put the rules clearly in their contract: no P2P (read the article). Comcast (cable modem) did not. That is a huge difference. It's one thing to call someone dumb for violating the terms of service and acting surprised when the service provider penalizes them, it's a whole other thing when that service provider (Comcast) violates their part of the agreement, and then publicly denies it.
The difference here, of course, is that AT&T explains upfront that this is not permitted (RTFA) and markets the service as "broadband-like", with the major technical limitation that all users are sharing the very limited bandwidth available to that cellsite and permitting P2P or anything else truly bulk will destroy the experience of many users simultaneously. AT&T does a lot of unreasonable things, but this is not one of them.
On the other hand Comcrap marketed their service as super high speed (faster than DSL!), super high capacity internet service, and then snuck around behind their users' back, altering the experience in a way that no one was informed of.
What do you want them to report on today? Do you think there's lots of stories they're just ignoring?
Any PR firm for any company with half a brain knows that they should wait 'til the next news cycle, because Apple will own this one.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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