Interesting ATT announcement.. ha ha ha ha

[jigsawkilr]

Thats too funny. So yes come on verizon get us a commercial on this one.

 

[Dragoro]

I thought this was interesting...


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/business/13digi.html?_r=1&sudsredirect=true

I dont believe anything the NYT prints.

 

[boatman2220]

Their coverage is crappy at best, now where they do have coverage, you can't depend on it because too many on the network. The coverage out of cities isn't 3G. Go to the Island Of Misfit Toys!

 

[droidwannabe]

I wonder if AT&T said "please"

 

[hookbill]

this could cause a chain of bad events. I hope it doesn't happen, but it's funny that AT&T can't even handle the mass amount of data users.

If AT&T gets away with this, all the other carriers will be effected by this too some how

I think they oversold their network. This is the equivalent of AOL in 90's when you could not dial in to get connected. busy signal after busy signal.

One of the best analogies I've ever seen.

 

[Vulcan1600]

Can't wait to see a Verizon commercial in response to that...

Would be great if it got exploited!

 

[Mojo]

That is crazy! It is not the customers fault and the customer should not be asked to cut down on anything! Period. Att should have invested in their network long ago. Not wait until their network gets overloaded. Fact is, customers signed a contract for unlimited data. Att cannot change the contract after the fact. Also att can put data caps in place all day, bottom line if customers still use the same ammout of data all that happens is att makes more money for overage. The network suffers the same strain on it. The customer ends up paying a lot more for the same crappy service! When they had a flat rate before. I hope that customers tell att to piss off when att calls them to "educate " them about their usage.

 

[andrewdoane]

I saw that on CNET yesterday, I thought that was hysterical.

That's one way to solve a problem.

I really love it that AT&T has problems with SF, which is where all the cnet reviewers live. If you're going to have a problem city, you really ought to do your best to make it some city other than the one where all the reviewing happens for the biggest cell-phone review outlet in the country. It's like an automaker having a car that only sucks in one city, and that one city is Detroit. Shame that all the car journalists live and work in Detroit.

 

[Mongoose]

AT&T ASKS Customers in NY, SF to Cut Data Usage


AT&T Asks Customers in NY, SF to Cut Data Usage - PC World



Nuff said.

Interesting article...I dont think I've ever seen the iPhone and Apple attacked so directly by a leading publication even though it's couched in phraseology that sounds somewhat praiseworthy. It must be some pretty emperical data or the lawsuits would abound.

The bottom line is that whether AT&T is faster or has more coverage, it's biggest seller is iPhone, and if iPhone don't work (whether it's Apples fault or AT&T's fault), then AT&T don't work. Testing with phones (other than iPhone) is a pretty slick way of coming at the issue sideways...but once again..if iPhone doesn't work, then AT&T doesn't work. If the data is correct I would think that AT&T can't wait to unload Apple...after all...sooner or later iPhone will be replaced by something vastly superior...and thats a fact. It's just a matter of time. :icon_ devil:

 

[atomicwedgie]

Please pay us for unlimited data usage but keep your data usage under control.

 

[ltfrakes]

Hmmmmm, maybe there's something to those VZW map commercials???

 

[Martin030908]

"On AT&T you can talk and surf the web at the same time. Provided you're using your phone between the designated 1 hour window you've been given each day to use data!" Enjoy the fastest 3g around!

 

[ltfrakes]

What can I say...

 

[QiG]

Wow, that's incredible.

It would be a great way for Verizon to go for the throat in their advertising campaign, but it also worries me that something similar is in the works across the board if at&t came out and acknowledged it publicly.

 

[MadDroidTX]

AT&T is eventually going to force customers to use less bandwith. They use the term incentive, but they probably mean astronomical surcharges, at the least and god knows what else.