dan1431
join:2007-05-10
Boca Raton, FL
| UMTS/HSPA Speeds With the launch of the iPHONE 3G, for the first time I saw UMTS(3G) speeds dramatically decline for the first time since at&t Mobility was having issues in Southeastern Florida about a year and half ago.
Starting last week, for the first time since the iPHONE 3G's launch I have watched speeds return to normal levels and a few times actually increase (hopefully that trend will continue).
I spoke with an RF engineer for at&t Mobility and he said that the company (at&t Mobility) is frantically trying to repair the damage done by the iPHONE 3G and hopefully prevent further issues in the future.
He indicated that a tethering plan would not be launched until the engineering staff was sure that the iPHONE effect would not strike again. | |
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 | flyingjoey
join:2005-11-07
Jersey City, NJ
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| Re: UMTS/HSPA Speeds What's wrong with this picture... AT&T customers are playing 30 bucks a month for subpar service which seems to be always down.
I've been with Sprint for 11 years and have been tethering my phones since I figured out how to (something like 2002). First with the Samsung A800, then with the PPC6700 and now with the PPC6800.
I consistently receive 1100down/400up and I’ve found 2 locations in NJ where I will always get 2200down/1200up (Hillside, NJ)… and this is all for $15 bucks a month (-27% off). They will have to drag me out kicking and screaming before I leave Sprint.
Btw, I do own an iPhone and the only reason why I have it it’s because it has all my music in it, and work pays for the service. | |
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| | beaups
join:2003-08-11
Hilliard, OH
| Re: UMTS/HSPA Speeds I think the point is that it's a lot easier to offer fast and consistent service when nobody else is using it (i.e. Sprint). If sprint were to launch an iphone with the same kind of #'s ATT did, I would expect similar issues.
Anyhow, I read here that ATT has additional spectrum available..I suspect as that rolls out 3G will improve for all of us. I'll keep my fingers crossed. | |
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| | | scantor
join:2004-08-11
Columbus, OH
| Re: UMTS/HSPA Speeds said by beaups  :I think the point is that it's a lot easier to offer fast and consistent service when nobody else is using it (i.e. Sprint). If sprint were to launch an iphone with the same kind of #'s ATT did, I would expect similar issues. Even if that were true, which strikes me as unlikely given that it was just as fast before they started losing so many customers, it still suggests to me that I'm better off staying with Sprint.
So either Sprint's network is just plain better (my guess), or it's just less busy now and those of us left will get the benefits until they go under. Either way, I'd have to be insane to get an iPhone and switch. | |
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| | RadioDoc
58ef2c0
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11
 ·AT&T Midwest
| Hmmm. I've been tethering my CU500V since I got it well over a year ago and it always works wherever I go. I'm not paying $30 a month extra to do it, either, and I get 3G speeds in a lot of outback places that aren't even announced as "live" yet.
Maybe its the iPhone that is the problem? Naw, Apple would never market something that underperforms it's ad hype.  | |
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