AT&T Says NYC is 'Not Ready' For the iPhone

[Marcus Yam]

AT&T says that NYC doesn't have enough towers to handle the iPhone.

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[logitic]

I can't wait for the next Verizon commercial to talk about this one! lol

 

[adaman2576]

I find it funny that people know that in NYC an iphone is worthless but, they still insist on having one anyway.

 

[nicklasd87]

ugh...ATT needs to get its act together...It seems to me that ATT is trying to stall the market wrather than adapting to it...Being an ATT customer I am very hesitant about renewing my contract when it expires due to this assumption.

 

[subliminalaffect]

It's about time that att gets their just desserts by having their shady business practices and bloated, overpriced and underperforming services exposed. This company has been trash over the past decade and more and more of the public is waking up to this via verizon's help and their own self deterioration thanks to greed. God bless the Iphone!!!

 

[atticus052]

"We're suing you Verison, we have great 3G coverage, oh but not for you New York."

 

[Hilarion]

Wow! And this is one of the cities that they SAY they have great 3G coverage in...... Talk about shooting yourself in the foot! Way to go ATT! Soooo, I guess that means your commercials aren't really factual?

 

[bollwerk]

The iphone is not worthless. AT&T is.

 

[Glorian]

The iphone would kill any network in high concentration cities filled with yuppies who feel they need to have the latest trend electronics. Even if AT&T was ready it is still amazing the amount of people who "need" this novelty.

I also think they are taking "NY isn't ready" a bit too serious, because it is in fact AT&T that's not ready. It's like someone asking me if I finished building a house and I respond "no the house isn't ready" its not the house fault it's not built it's mine.

 

[jjchmiel78]

I find it hilarious that ever since Verizon started a major advertising campaign against AT&T, that all AT&T seems to do is shoot themselves in the foot. They need new management yesterday, a new advertising agency now, and really start doing something. Keep shooting themselves in the foot at the pace they have since November and they won't have the business to worry about articles like this in a year or two. iPhone may be cool, but is not the magic wand to let AT&T get away with whatever they want and save their company.

 

[sliem]

There's a map for that

 

[Abrahm]

This is awesome. The more people AT&T pisses off, the more people that will see beyond the trendy glamor and move on to the superior android system.

Let the rise of the android system to dominance commence!

 

[jonathan1683]

I wish apple would allow other carriers to have to iphone to help carry the burden.

 

[bydesign]

It's NY isn't that state bankrupt anyway along with that other home of liberal nonsense.

 

[gwellin]

Actully if you pay attention to the AT&T commercials. They say they have coverage to over 98% of the people. That statement says nothing about 3G coverage. They are just saying 98% of people in the US have some cell phone coverage with AT&T. That is why verizon can get away with saying the have over 5x the 3G coverage.

 

[captaincharisma]

why would the biggest city in the USA have the fewest towers in the country? who has the most towers then? a small town in Alabama? and i'm sure it is elementary to everyone that the most iphone sales in the USA would be from new york.

 

[captaincharisma]

[citation][nom]jonathan1683[/nom]I wish apple would allow other carriers to have to iphone to help carry the burden.[/citation]

they already did it for Canada. every wireless carrier here sells the iphone now.

 

[sunflier]

Dang you El_Capitan!!! You stole my comment. +1 for you.

 

[jerreece]

This just in:

"NYC says AT&T is not ready for the iPhone..."

 

[jerreece]

[citation][nom]captaincharisma[/nom]why would the biggest city in the USA have the fewest towers in the country? who has the most towers then? a small town in Alabama? and i'm sure it is elementary to everyone that the most iphone sales in the USA would be from new york.[/citation]

When you have an area that is extremely densely populated, numerically you don't need as many "towers" to provide signal for the area. Plus they can put "towers" on top of buildings, so terrain and landscape aren't issues.

Where as in more rural type cities, hills and mountains seem to get in the way. And since in other cities growth goes outward (as opposed to up and down) you have to provide more towers to cover the area. It would make sense to me if NYC didn't numerically have a lot of towers. They just have towers crammed with transmitters, etc.