dan1431
join:2007-05-10
Boca Raton, FL | Hard To Place On Any One Company I tend to try and look at all side of a problem before placing blame directly on any one person or organization especially with something like cellular communications because of its inherent complexities.
I use a standard mobile phone (I guess in communications parlance a "dumb phone") and it works well on the at&t Mobility 3G network.
A good friend has an iPHONE and it works acceptable on the at&t Mobility network, not as good as my dumb phone nor as good as my work Berry, but it works.
Again, I am not sure where to place blame, it could be at&t Mobility, it could be Apple, it could be a blending of both, it is hard to tell. My good friend the iPHONE owner recently traveled to Switzerland and his iPHONE (is legally unlocked, he purchased it in Australia and they unlocked it for him after forking over some amount of money) and it performed well on SWISSCOM's network, maybe even a little better than at&t Mobility, but that may have more to do with Europe being light years ahead of the USA with regards to mobile networks than at&t Mobility's network being poorly engineered.
My hunch, at&t Mobility, while the largest GSM carrier in the USA was probably not the best fit for a device that according to a friend of mine (who works for T-Mobile) is more powerful than most cellular network are capable of handling adequately. He went on to say that in its present form, T-Mobile USA's mobile network would have fallen apart if they were the official iPHONE carrier.
Dan |
