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Sources of Barrons and WSJ

By Eric Savitz

I see a trend.

Back in July, I wrote a post based on a Bernstein Research report which considered the question of whether the Apple (AAPL) iPhone has been a blessing or a curse for AT&T (T), citing among other factors the strain the data-happy iPhone users are placing on the company’s 3G network. The theme cropped up again earlier this week, in a Heard on the Street column in the Wall Street Journal, which asserted that AT&T is not getting much out of its position as the exclusive U.S. iPhone carrier.

This morning, the New York Times picked up on the meme, with a story asserting that ...
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Hey guys,

As you all know from my recent post, i recently moved to dallas from ontario, canada. In canada I have GSM carrier rogers, so i wanna be with GSM plus i have an unlocked BOLD. So I recently signed up with AT&T and using there service now. I would have to say there service and coverage is excellent. I am very happy.

This past weekend me, my sister and 4 others from our church went camping. We went to san antonio, tx to gardner state park. me, my sister have blackberries on AT&T, the other 4, 3 had verizon and the last person has boost mobile. And this is to all verizon fan people out there, me and my sister (AT&T) had full coverage, full bars, we were in a the woods. our friends who has verizon, were searching for service or h...
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From the September 3, 2009 New York Times Business section:

Customers Angered as iPhones Overload AT&T

By JENNA WORTHAM

Slim and sleek as it is, the iPhone is really the Hummer of cellphones.

It’s a data guzzler. Owners use them like minicomputers, which they are, and use them a lot. Not only do iPhone owners download applications, stream music and videos and browse the Web at higher rates than the average smartphone user, but the average iPhone owner can also use 10 times the network capacity used by the average smartphone user.

“They don’t even realize how much data they’re using,” said Gene Munster, a senior securities analyst with Piper Jaffray.

The result is dropped calls, ...
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just a heads up. anyone who upgrades or activates a smartphone on or after September 6th will require a data package usually starting at $30. so if anyone is interested in getting a smartphone they might want to do it before this date to avoid that, if they dont want to have a data package. All our system will be updated and there will be no way to go around it. they say the reason why we are doing this is to avoid further usage charges from ocurring for people who gets charged but states they never use the internet, since its a smartphone sometimes it uses data without you being on the internet. this is going to be a big call driver and inconvience for us Customer service people to have to explain this. so just wanted to let people know ahe...
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The new Nokia Mural for AT&T lists 2100 MHz for 3G.

I think 2100 is used in Europe for 3G?
Will AT&T use 2100 for 3G in the future?

I travel to Europe a lot. Will be nice to have:

GSM - Quad Band World Phone - 850/900/1800/1900
3G - Tri Band World Phone - 850/1900/2100

Any clarification on 2100 MHz and where it is used would be great...thanks...

to keep their word of launching MMS and Tethering for the iPhone 3G S customers "later this summer".

Autumn begins on Tuesday, September 22, 2009.

Twenty days and counting, AT&T...

PLACE YOUR BETS FOLKS!

I bet ten bucks we'll see the autumnal equinox before we see an announcement from AT&T that MMS and Tethering are ready to go for the iPhone 3 G S.

ATT will be getting iphone mms on the 25th of september

I was told that it wasn't always necessary to purchase the enterprise plan for the Blackberry because their is a "redirection software" that you install that will allow you to receive work email. Does anyone have insight on this?

thanks,

Everybody keeps talking about how at&t will lose tons of customers when the iphone goes to other carriers. Here's the way I see it.

1. They're right and at&t's customer base drops by millions (meaning less people on the network.)

2. They're wrong, few people leave at&t and we get to laugh at all the people that said at&t would suffer.

Kinda seems like a win win situation to me. 😁

Honest to God, I have no clue what has happened to AT&T's network. You guys were number one and on top of your game just two years ago. I paid an ETF to leave Sprint this summer and joined AT&T. My coverage has been horrible, the phones have been average, and CS hasn't even been helpful when I had questions. Technical Support did an awesome job helping me, but CS didn't seem to care. Then, this past weekend helped me in making my decision to leave AT&T and once again pay another ETF. Their billing systems merged and they could do NOTHING during this time for three days in my region. It's sad, I really had high hopes and respect for AT&T, but that all went out the window this summer.

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/08/31/verizon-en ... »

Verizon cares about there customers so much that they like to nickel and dime them to death!! Can you pay me now?... Good!!

If they do this to regular phones... what would happen if they get the iphone.. they'll go nuts with the prices..

40-50 dollars data.. yeah.

http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090831/apple-to ... »


Apple to End AT&T iPhone Exclusivity Within a Year?

by John Paczkowski
Posted on August 31, 2009 at 8:21 AM PT

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att_iphoneAnother point worth pulling out from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster’s recent research note about Apple, this one regarding AT&T’s iPhone-exclusivity deal: Munster doesn’t see it lasting much beyond this year. Apple (AAPL) is slowly transitioning the countries in which it sells the iPhone to a multicarrier model and the United States is at the top of its list.

“We expect Apple to add new iPhone carriers in the U.S. within the next year (likely ...
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http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/08/21/carrier-wa ... »

3g war results!

If your in Denver, you might be interested in this story....

http://www.9news.com/money/article.aspx?storyid=1222 ... »




DENVER - Frustrated customers are being told to expect poor signal quality and dropped calls through the end of September as the network upgrades equipment.

A service representative in Denver told 9NEWS customers using AT&T's 3G network with a seven to ten mile radius of the Washington Park neighborhood will be impacted. That area includes parts of Downtown Denver, LoDo and Cherry Creek.

Another local store employee said the network upgrades causing the service outages are in response to "months and months of coverage problems," especially in LoDo.

An AT&T spokeswoman would not offer specifics on t...
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I'm going to skip straight to the bottom line and say that I believe "AT&T ready" means 850/1900 HSPA and NOT that ATT is actually going to carry the Nokia N900 because the N900 is way, way too superior of a smartphone/computer to be carried by ATT.

And personally my money is tied up til October next year in an effort to rid myself of debt. So I'll probably be buying neXt years version of the N900.

Here's the link:

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/08/29/nokia-an-a ... »

And I am using it on AT&T. It rocks. I absolutely love this phone, super durable and it's fantastic.

I even successfully configured the browser for Media Net!

I love the Sonim XP# Quest.

That is all.

Which is nice. I guess AT&T finally tweaked the towers in my hood. Looks like I don't have to pay ETFs afterall.

I had the first iphone that came out and had to have the $15 data and when the new 3G came out you had to pay double that, they said it was because it was a lot faster and you would use way more data, ok great but I like many live where they can not get 3G now and wont for a long time. Should I still have to pay for this service that is not provided to me. Just like with the new smart phone plan, I should pay for the higher data plan and not get to use it. I mean come on how much data will I really use on edge? I will tell you now not much at all, its to damn slow, I use wifi or nothing. So why should have to pay more?

"Thank you for calling the new AT&...*error tone

lol. My phone dropped the call. I dialed 611 a second time and it went through just fine.

That is all.



No really, that is all.




Stop reading this, the post is over!!!