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Wired reports today that iPhone users have been reporting a lot of outages of AT&T’s data service in places such as Boston, Chicago, Washington DC and St. Louis.

Meanwhile, a retired Chicken of the Sea executive has filed a lawsuit against AT&T and Apple alleging the carrier and device maker misrepresented the performance of the 3G iPhone on AT&T’s 3G network (too slow, often gets bumped down to an EDGE network). He claims there are too many people on the network…

The European Regulator Group (ERG), an organization that brings together the 34 national regulators of the European Union, recently published its second report on wholesale and retail charges for cellular communications in Europe. The ERG acts as a central point for collecting data from each country’s telecom regulator. This report gives a clearer picture of the effects of regulations on the price of cellular calls in Europe over the past two years. At a recent press conference in Europe, Daniel…

AT&T says its 3G data network could reach download speeds of 20 Mbps by 2009, according to a report from AppleInsider Wednesday.

The report quoted Ralph de la Vega, AT&T Wireless President and CEO, telling attendees at a Morgan Stanley communications conference that AT&T engineers already have a HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) 3G network running in their labs, at speeds of 7.2 megabits per second (which is about double of AT&T’s wireless network capability today). The report adds that “AT&T…