| heh This reminds me when AOL did not have enough dial-up modems. Then it went all down hill from there. AT&T could be a repeat of AOL : ) |
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 en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | A lot of this could be solved by bumping many off of GSM to 3G.
In some areas, 20MHz out of 50MHz are on 3G. Obviously they needs more.
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Zoder
join:2002-04-16
Miami, FL | reply to brianiscool
Actually it went up from there. The modem issue was in 97. AOL peaked in 2000 after they announced the Time-Warner merger |
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I know they're trying hard with the 850MHz migration. But a half hour north of NYC -- a major population center -- I still deal with dropped calls and crap EDGE burps nearly constantly. |
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en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Well, in the past it would have been +40MHz of EDGE/GSM, and ~5MHz of TDMA AMPS.
Here in LA, (most of SoCal actually) has 45MHz of spectrum, its all
10MHz of 850MHz band on 3G
15MHz of 850MHz band on GSM/EDGE
10MHz of 1900MHz band (PCS B3) on 3G
10MHz of 1900MHz band (PCS D) on GSM
In rural areas, its not too different - sites are spread out more, and capacity isn't always as big of an issue, unless there are events (i.e. local sporting event, major holiday traffic jams)
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 dddane
join:2002-01-10
Chicago, IL | reply to Karl Bode
it's just as much an interference issue though in urban areas... |
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join:2001-09-30
Santa Rosa, CA
kudos:8 | reply to en102
Where do you get these stats?
I want to look up other networks in other areas.
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en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | 2 places.
1 - FCC website (painful search engine)
This is a primer
»www.wirelesswavelength.com/
followed by
»wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSear···rket.jsp
using
»wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/data/maps/mta.pdf
and
»wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/data/maps/bta.pdf
for local reference
2 - Field test mode on your cell phone. iPhone has this built in, as does most WinMo, and others.
This will tell you the breakdown of what is in use on 3g vs 2g and by 850 vs 1900.
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lvas
join:2001-05-17
Glen Carbon, IL | reply to brianiscool
its a safe bet that those 3% of users taking up 40% of the bandwith are data tethering the iphone. which obviously their network cant handle yet which is why they dont' offer it. |
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AT&T responds to Fake Steve's call for DDOS »www.cultofmac.com/att-responds-t···ld/23509
Contacted by CultofMac.com, an AT&T spokesman described the planned protest as “totally irresponsible.” The spokesman continued:
We understand that fakesteve.net is primarily a satirical forum, but there is nothing amusing about advocating that customers attempt to deliberately degrade service on a network that provides critical communications services for more than 80 million customers. We know that the vast majority of customers will see this action for what it is: an irresponsible and pointless scheme to draw attention to a blog.
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GbcueAlmost P.E.Premium
join:2001-09-30
Santa Rosa, CA
kudos:8 | AT&T is just afraid of people actually using their network.
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