If they weren't so damn greedy they could just let another company get a slice of the action and share the strain.
Why doesn't At&T get more servers/towers? I mean, if they get lots of money already, invest that in servers and towers to suffice and make costumers happy.
1 company doesnt want to upgrade the amazing app store. 1 company cant support the app store. 2 companies that exceed that are taking too much in. and not expanding. i also love when its says "The average iPhone user consumes five to seven times more data on a monthly basis than an average subscriber who mainly uses a handset for phone calls, research firm Sanford C. Bernstein says." WAY TO GO!!!
i love verizon, but hate it. but love it. is there a service to properly handle the iphone out there?
That's pretty pathetic on AT&Ts part. You shouldn't offer the service if you can't handle it. But honestly, I see WAY too many people with iPhones than I would realistic expect to be able to afford them. What happened to the days of starving college students? There's probably a higher person-to-iPhone ratio on college campuses than anywhere, and based on that assumption (which is by no way backed up by facts), people might as well get Touches since most campuses offer wi-fi. I know at my school I spend most of my time in class browsing the internet....On my Touch. It seems to get kind of a bad rap as a "poor mans iPhone", but I think it really is a viable alternative to the hassles of AT&T, not to mention an alternative to expensive monthly bills. I basically get most of the benefits of the iPhone with my Touch, and use a, *gasp* regular cell phone that costs like $20 a month. I have a friend who has one, he can't afford it--he can barely afford his rent--but he HAD to have an iPhone, presumably because everyone else has one and it's the cool thing to do. (On a side note he also HAD to have a Wii, PS3, and 360). And on a side note about the $5-$20 charges for text messages, text messaging prices are ridiculous. It was $3 a month for unlimited MAIL (not limited to just texts) on my phone in Japan, and what are some of these companies in the US charging? Verizon charges like $5 for 250 messages, I'm assuming it's around the same for AT&T. Doesn't it cost them absolutely nothing to offer the service save for the hardware/software needed to use it?
I think the ONLY reason I'd jailbreak my phone is because of AT&T. I live in the outskirts of the San Francisco Bay Area where most of my calls get dropped. I curse you AT&T!!!
Jesus Christ that's cheap. It's £25 ($41) for 250 messages in the UK. 10p each. Double that on certain providers if you want to send to other service providers. Edit: should be noted I'm not talking about iPhones, I have no idea what their situation is.
ok first of all they couldn't limit our data plans because it would ruin their already badly hurt image. second they aren't the only ones with the iphone sometime in 2010 other carriers will get it. suck it up att get some more towers and upgrade some towers.
Wowza, that's pretty ridiculous. Needless to say, I think texting is totally lame regardless of what country you're in. Of course, that also makes the the Japanese price seem even more cheap.
Yeah, but we do have quite a lot of offers like top up £10 a month and get unlimited SMS, and of course you get to spend the £10 you topped up. The only thing that annoys me is there isn't a single provider in the UK that gives us free international texts, and most of my texts go to Sweden (and I hear nearly all Swedish providers have free international SMS options).
that SUCKS!!! U need a boston tea party asap I also think this is just alot of hot-steam, where are the sources I say! AT&T is boosting their speeds as one comment on the article says, they are getting thrown enough cash, if it seriously is a problem, invest in some more towers, thats business, risk some, make alot..
Not surprising really, the iPhone is raping their network from the sheer amount of data transfer that the iPhone uses on a regular basis. They are working on expanding it, but it's a pretty slow process. I hate it when people say "oh I hate at&t" or "oh I hate Verizon" cuz they're all freaking the same. If Verizon had the iPhone, their network would be hurting just as much as at&t's is. The only tradeoff between carriers anymore is the phones they offer, and if you have service in your area. Text messaging though, I think is where they all make most of their money. I read an article that if you take like 5mb of data for texting, it costs consumers thousands of dollars, but the difference between a carrier handling a million texts and a hundred million texts is almost nothing. at&t will probably lose the exclusivity contract sometime soon (I doubt in 2010), but I wouldn't hold your breath for Verizon to get it. At least until they fully move to 4G and ditch the whole CDMA crap. But I will laugh if T-mobile gets it, all the at&t haters will switch to them and their network will just get destroyed.
