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| My personal experience... My personal experience with att has been 110% satisfactory. Yes, there are some times when for some reason i have no signal, however it was the same with my old phone, and has more to do with EM interference and physical barriers between transceiver and handset than a network issue. The thing that does bother me however, is 5 bars, unable to do data or voice, but this is in one single location indoors near the hudson river across from lower manhattan. I am guessing the building is letting the building mounted equipment in NY see my phone, but too far to send/receive data, because the lobby/street level part is mostly glass, but above is primarily masonry and metal, and is occupied by machinery. That being said, they have helped me when funds for bill paying come up short, and how i got my iPhone & how my girlfriend got hers (we are on a family plan) to me now seems miraculous, and i wish other companies (like vz & ccast) would follow this type of "customer first" policy. I think if people expect to get full speed 3G data 100% of the time they need to do research into how radio waves and cell systems work. Data is completely secondary to voice, the primary concern is voice.
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Birmingham, AL | Despite the results of the research, I find it hard to believe that the iPhone is hurting AT&T in any significant way other than AT&T eating part of the hardware cost. While I'm sure there are a handful of noisy customers complaining of said network congestion (particularly at major "nerdy" events like an E3 and the like), the number of owners who "hate" their iPhone are few and far between. The loud majority, in my experience, are non-iPhone owners that want to validate their decision to not own one, and lambasting AT&T contributes to that effort. | |
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I think it all depends on where you live, I live in suburban NJ and my signal is just as good as it was with Verizon, in fact it's better than I used to get with Verizon in my apartment. Granted if you look at those two 3G maps the tri-state area is one of a few large sections of the U.S. that is well covered by GSM, I don't travel outside of the east coast in the U.S. hardly ever so the rest of the country is a non-issue, when I do travel it's usaully out of the country in which case having a GSM phone is great.
In my area AT&T's 3G seems faster than it was with a verizon 3G phone, though part of it could be how much better the iphone is in comparision to Verizon's crappy smartphones which is the reason I left. | |
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| Just thought I'd post alittle proof from the iphone speedtest.net app, this is my normal 3G speed range though it's usaully around 800 - 1MB/s if I had to give an average.
Not bad for 3G in my opinion | |
| reply to FastiBook
Yea, totally. I take NJ transit train from trenton to newark, often using internet the whole way, get on PATH at newark penn, sometimes use internet till tunnel. Come up from tunnel at exchange place PATH station, problems with throughput but not signal bars. I am guessing this is because i'm not only near the edge of a cell area (state border on a wide river) but i'm also a block from goldman sachs world headquarters in jersey city, 2 hotels, condo towers, several large office towers, and some stuff under construction. It is a very concentrated area of handset usage near the edge of coverage in probably more than one shadow. If i move out of the station building i get everything back. This only started in the last 2 months, i'm guessing it has something to do with antenna locations. Maybe they had to move the antennas or something.
Everyone i've talked to loves their iPhone, and only one person i've overheard doesn't like ATT+iPhone, but they seemed like a snobby rich weirdo, so who knows what psychosis they are suffering from. 
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