MuniWireless

The second PC World 3G Wireless Performance test shows AT&T leading the other cellular carriers in download speeds. In contrast to AT&T’s poor performance last spring, this time around AT&T seems to have made noticeable improvements in its network across the 13 cities where Novarum conducted its tests:

“AT&T’s network turned in download speeds that were 72 percent better than the numbers from eight months ago; in our latest tests, AT&T’s download speeds were 67 percent faster on average than those…

Fake Steve Jobs (aka The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs) lets AT&T’s Randall Stephenson know exactly what he thinks about AT&T and its crappy network. Here is an excerpt:

And now here we are. Right here in your own backyard, an American company creates a brilliant phone, and that company hands it to you, and gives you an exclusive deal to carry it — and all you guys can do is complain about how much people want to use it. You, Randall…

AT&T has finally admitted to iPhone users that it has serious problems in New York City and San Francisco (oh, the pain of dropped calls), and released an iPhone app called Mark the Spot. The application lets users tell AT&T where and when they encountered network problems. See the screenshots below. AT&T also says that 3 percent of smartphone users are generating 40 percent of the data traffic. I wonder if AT&T will start metering use.

But Andy Abramson takes the…

Which would you rather be: the most profitable handset manufacturer or the one with the biggest market share? Apple has just passed Nokia as the most profitable handset maker in the world (according to Strategy Analytics) even though IDC reports that in Q3 2009, Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for smartphones was about 38 percent with Apple taking 17.1 percent. RIM’s market share in Q3 2009 was 19 percent.

Nokia has never been strong in the US, but its dominance…

AT&T is finally launching multimedia messaging service (MMS) on the iPhone tomorrow. That’s a welcome announcement for some iPhone users, but many fear that the added data traffic will cause even more breakdowns in the network. Customers of AT&T have been critical about the operator’s poor cellular service which has been suffering from the success of the iPhone.

Recently, the FCC has proposed rules that would make it more difficult for service providers, including wireless operators, to discriminate against certain types…

There’s some creative license being taken by AT&T in its announcement of upgrades to its 3G cellular network today. While the lead paragraph in the company’s announcement claims its implementation of High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) technology “will provide a considerable speed boost” to its existing network, buried down farther in the release is the sobering fact that current 3G customers (except for those who bought an iPhone 3GS) will have to “upgrade” their own devices to enjoy the new…