 djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
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| Unprepared? Seems to me the iPhone has just forced AT&T to do the right thing. Prior to the iPhone 3G, the 3G around here was absolutely atricious. If I wanted to use data, I'd usually have to force my Blackjack into 3G mode because the phone seemed to always default to Edge. But if I wanted to make voice calls I'd have to force Edge, because any 3G hand-off would result in a dropped call.
Enter the iPhone 3G. Suddenly everyone with their new iPhones got in an uproar about the problems I'd been having on my Blackjack for over a year. Whatever's been done, it's a night and day difference. My 3G works pretty darn good now and I generally don't need to mess with it.
The wide scale capacity upgrades sound like a nice step in the right direction. I just hope they focus on adding more towers. There are still some embarassing dead zones in the LA area.
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bemis
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| said by djrobx:Seems to me the iPhone has just forced AT&T to do the right thing. Prior to the iPhone 3G, the 3G around here was absolutely atricious. If I wanted to use data, I'd usually have to force my Blackjack into 3G mode because the phone seemed to always default to Edge. But if I wanted to make voice calls I'd have to force Edge, because any 3G hand-off would result in a dropped call. Agreed--this is the #1 reason I switched to Verizon when my contract w/ AT&T ended in 2006.
In 2006 at the end of my contract I bought an LG CU500 3G phone from AT&T because I wanted faster MMS uploads, but I quickly found that I often couldn't hold a conversation while moving in a car, bus, train, whatever because the phone would constantly drop calls in 3G to 2G hand off's and back.
I ended up switching to VZ and it has never had an issue with hand off's
I still have AT&T for work, but it's a 2G BlackBerry Edge.
Friends of mine w/ the iPhone 3G say that the hand off isn't an issue any more, so now that I'm several month of contract w/ VZ I'm waiting for the next gen iPhone to arrive before I make a decision to either stick w/ VZ or go for the new iPhone. |
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 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | reply to djrobx
I agree totally. AT&T has upgraded most of Maryland and other places to 3G. I like now being able to use our phones in my basement now!
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