AT&T Cracking Down on Cell Data Usage

[o0RaidR0o]

[citation][nom]blackened144[/nom]They specifically went with ATT because they knew no other providers could handle the load. Everyone using another provider and bad mouthing ATT should be happy the iPhone is locked to them. Looking at the main PDF found on the link below you can extrapolate the usage to so that the iPhone accounts for 50% of all smart phone requests in the world and more specifically the US. Since the iPhone is tied to ATT, the data usage is equal to every other smart phone provider in the country COMBINED. So be glad the iPhone is not on Verizon or T-Mobile, because if it was your network would not even function.http/www.knowyourcell.com/news/3 [...] affic.html[/citation]
Although I tend to agree with your statement in part, its still a bit misleading. AT&T doesn't provide service overseas to its iPhone users, T-Mobile of Germany, Orange of France and O2 in the UK handle all other iPhone traffic outside the US. And more specifically both the iPhone and iPod Touch usage grew 7% month-on-month to reach 50% of the total. While its true in the US, Apple (iPhone/iPod) grew 7.2 percentage points from 48% to 55% of all AdMob traffic. The operative word here is 'AdMob traffic', which at best is a ballpark figure depending on the algorithm they used to extrapolate there data. The problems with AT&T don't arise in of itself due to the amount of subscribers but the lack of network support and infrastructure upgrades.

 

[blackened144]

[citation][nom]o0RaidR0o[/nom]Haha! yeah but for how long can you do that before Comcrap sends u a nasty email, throttles u or simply cuts you off completely? What a noob![/citation]
While I dont agree with the caps from comcast, they havent been enforcing them. At least not on me. Just with my newsgroups transfers alone, I have gone over 300gb in 5 of the last 12 months and Im on point to go over 500gb this month. I have been expecting a very nasty worded letter warning me about it ever since they announced the 250gb caps but they havent said a word.. I cant wait until U-Verse or FIOS is available in my area.

 

[o0RaidR0o]

[citation][nom]jdog2076[/nom]I'm not defending AT&T in any way, but I think a lot of people around here need to learn how wireless bandwidth actually works. It's nowhere near as unlimited as wired connections. You only have a certain frequency range in which to transmit data as specified by the FCC. A limited frequency range means limited bandwidth, since there's only so many ways one can attempt to cram ever-increasing data through a confined space. Now, I don't personally know to what extent AT&T could improve their network given the current technology, but the fact is there are physical limits to wireless bandwidth. Until technology matures and researchers figure out ways to transmit more data per MHz, we're stuck with that reality.[/citation]
That may be true, but didn't the wireless carriers purchase additional MHz range?

 

[o0RaidR0o]

[citation][nom]blackened144[/nom]While I dont agree with the caps from comcast, they havent been enforcing them. At least not on me. Just with my newsgroups transfers alone, I have gone over 300gb in 5 of the last 12 months and Im on point to go over 500gb this month. I have been expecting a very nasty worded letter warning me about it ever since they announced the 250gb caps but they havent said a word.. I cant wait until U-Verse or FIOS is available in my area.[/citation]
I don't think you want to U-Verse (AT&T) their bandwidth is very narrow and bogged down with have to deliver all there services in that narrow bandwidth. I will confess I wish they brought FIFO to my area, good luck!

 

[blackened144]

[citation][nom]o0RaidR0o[/nom]Although I tend to agree with your statement in part, its still a bit misleading. AT&T doesn't provide service overseas to its iPhone users, T-Mobile of Germany, Orange of France and O2 in the UK handle all other iPhone traffic outside the US. And more specifically both the iPhone and iPod Touch usage grew 7% month-on-month to reach 50% of the total. While its true in the US, Apple (iPhone/iPod) grew 7.2 percentage points from 48% to 55% of all AdMob traffic. The operative word here is 'AdMob traffic', which at best is a ballpark figure depending on the algorithm they used to extrapolate there data. The problems with AT&T don't arise in of itself due to the amount of subscribers but the lack of network support and infrastructure upgrades.[/citation]
I was only generalizing and rounding all the numbers in my example, but my point was simply that at the time Apple chose ATT, they were the only network that could handle the expected capacity. If the millions of Iphone users could jump on the Verizon network right this second, ATT would likely not have any of the problem it is currently experiencing and Verzion would be the company that is having these problems. Either way, it doesnt effect me personally as ATT has great service in my area..

 

[NoCaDrummer]

Perhaps if there were actual ENFORCEMENT of the existing no-cellphone-use-while-driving laws, then a pretty significant amount of bandwidth would be freed up. Even our governor's wife has been caught doing it. It scares me to see people texting while driving, yet I see it every day.

 

[idisarmu]

AT&T will offer consumers "incentives" to reduce or modify their usage.

What if I "modify" my usage so that my phone is always connected to the charger and I stream high def music videos just so i can listen to music?

I'm glad I don't have to deal with AT&T bullshit. How come Americans get shafted so hard? I don't find Canadian networks to be that bad.

 

[Guest]

I don't know I hate AT&T and one time when I had my cell phones with them they started charging me for cell phone to cell phone calls boy was I pissed.


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[banthracis]

[citation][nom]jdog2076[/nom] Now, I don't personally know to what extent AT&T could improve their network given the current technology, but the fact is there are physical limits to wireless bandwidth. Until technology matures and researchers figure out ways to transmit more data per MHz, we're stuck with that reality.[/citation]

Um actually the reality is that AT&T's network sucks. The technology to bring full 3g speeds to millions in a small area already exists. If you go to Hong Kong or Tokyo for example, you have more users, a much higher concentration of ppl, a greater % of ppl with smartphones, and ppl who spent a lot more time dling stuff on them than here in the US. At the same time, their networks maintain full 3g speeds. You dl on a smartphone as fast as a T1 connection here in the states in Tokyo for example (~1.2 mbps).

So yea, tech is there, AT&T network just sucks.