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1 edit | AT&T getting better here. It seems to be the backhaul in Pittsfield, MA and surrounding areas. Some of the surrounding areas were tolerable, but Pittsfield(widespread) and select areas were horrible to the point of unusable at peaks hours(usually calls were ok but for the occasional emergency call only, but data was horrendous), even with 5 bars. They even replaced my phones. No improvment(wasn't expecting one but was cooperating with script monkies). This went on for months with steady deterioration.
Now data seems to work very well here in the past several days. Latency is usually decent and connection is usable at peak times like it used to be. I am assuming it's a backhaul upgrade as some spots seemed almost like low-end 3G, but it was the same old EDGE with roughly the same signals(which were usually decent-very good).
Edit: I posted this from a phone on AT&T's network. |
| Pittsfield, MA is not AT&T's home turf. They are paying huge bucks, through the nose, to Verizon for middle mile backhaul (what's called "special access"). So, it's quite likely that they have bandwidth limitations in that area.
If the FCC would act on the issue of special access, there wouldn't be a problem. |
