Put 15 million more that use 15X the data usage of the average smartphone customer (according to the article) and who knows if they could have handled it.
Looks to me it was the sudden growth that put the hurt on AT&T and I think that kind of huge growth would have put the hurt on any US carrier.
Bottom line is that AT&T was not equipped to handle it. And even after the addition of the 15 million more customers that use 15X the data, AT&T still wasn't moving as much data as even Sprint. And no one is complaining about data on Sprint.
Put 15M users using 15X the average and you would see complaints on Sprint or any other carrier. Given Sprint is losing nearly a billion dollars per quarter they would have no money to fix it resulting in even more customer losses than they are already experiencing.
Put 15M users using 15X the average and you would see complaints on Sprint or any other carrier. Given Sprint is losing nearly a billion dollars per quarter they would have no money to fix it resulting in even more customer losses than they are already experiencing.
Are you not understanding? Verizon and Sprint already have the heavy data users, more than AT&T. And both Verizon and Sprint handled the data without as many problems as AT&T.
If you were to suddenly add 15M heavy data users to Verizon or Sprint, that would not be a fair comparison since they are both moving more data than AT&T before adding them. AT&T must not have been moving squat prior to the iPhone which further shows how woefully bad their preparation was.
That is what I'm saying. I think if VZW was the company who got the iPhone, they would be having network problems like AT&T did because it represented rapid growth.
And according to the news item, iPhone users use 15X the data that average smartphone users use so 15M new iPhone users would be the equivalent of FAR more than 15M other smartphone users. If the article is correct in user data consumption, those 15M iPhone users would consumer the same data as 225M typical smartphone users which is more than double the total number of current VZW subscribers.
It isn't about being fair. It's about whether ANY network could have handled 15M iPhone users without trouble and I am saying NO US carrier could have handled 15M iPhone users in such a short time without problems. It is simply too much growth too fast. -- "Our goal (was to make) a billion phones Flash-enabled by 2010...We're actually going to get 1 billion Flash-enabled phones by 2009." -Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch in Nov 2008.
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