iPhone 4 – AT&Ts Network Slows to a Crawl, Still Happy?
There are a lot of users of the iPhone 4 that are making complaints about the upload speeds as they’ve finally slowed to a complete crawl which has prompted countless numbers of customers to make the speculations that AT&T could actually be capping the speeds of their network.
There are numerous forums online and they’ve been completely filling up with postings about slowing in the upload speeds going down to a nice 1mbps down to as completely low as just 100kbps. This is happening even more so, in regards to the slowing, in the major metropolitan areas including those cities as Boston, New York, Seattle and others.
The issue had begun this past Saturday according to the reading of the complaints. An AT&T spokesman had stated that the company is going to be explaining this situation soon. This is far from a denial or the typical banter that you’d expect to get from the company with the antenna issue that’s surfaced with the phone as well.
The delay might just be due to the fact that networks have been a really, really bad sore spot for those that rushed out to purchase the iPhone 4 and have complained about the dropped calls, the slow downloads and many other issues in the more urban cities.
Back in June the carrier had announced that their network was completely iPhone ready. This came after the extensive New York infrastructure upgrades and other improvements happening in San Francisco and so on. It seems that the announcement might have been a tad premature.
Before the release of the new iPhone 4 AT&T decided to stop offering their unlimited data plan in favor of instead charging their customers predicated instead on offering fixed data packaging. This is the way that they found they could largely reduce the network strain in the anticipation of the large influx of newer iPhone subscribers.
The networks problem is just the latest in the string of many issues for both Apple and AT&T. after they went through shortages on the iPhone 4 on just the day of their launch the early owners had complained about the major antenna defect which had caused their calls to be dropped when the hand covers the lower side of the mobile. There have actually been many lawsuits that have sprouted up and there are claims that Apple actually had committed fraud through concealment through misrepresentation and a defective design. What once looked so bright isn’t shining so brightly now.
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