Data problems with your iPhone?
Posted in This Just In... on July 29th, 2009 by gkrakow
Have you noticed that your iPhone has gotten sluggish recently? Data moves like a thick shake passing through a narrow straw? Calls being affected too? Non-iPhones being affected as well?
You are not alone.
According to “people who know” service provider AT&T has been experiencing problems recently.
It seems there have been some AT&T wireless network “issues” along the US East Coast – from the Carolinas up to the Metro NYC area.
The latest word is that they’ve found the source of the problem and service should soon be back to normal by now – or if not, then very, very soon.
A network problem like this is bad for any cellular provider – worse for AT&T – when you take into account the great outage of 2008.
Less than a year ago, September 3rd to be exact, AT&T’s data network experienced major problems. Customers from Boston down to Washington and as far west as Chicago and St. Louis were unable to access their wireless data service for hours.
Back then, AT&T said the problem was “a routing issue affecting some wireless data use in the Northeast region. AT&T technicians determined the cause and restored service at 11:56 a.m. EDT. Voice calling, text messaging and BlackBerry email were unaffected”.
This is not a healthy track record for AT&T. With Verizon Wireless putting huge amounts of pressure on Apple to get a CDMA/EV-DO version of the iPhone. Recently announced dwindling profits means Verizon needs to boost their bottom line – with a proven winner like the iPhone.
AT&T really can’t afford to give Apple any additional reasons to comply with Verizon’s requests.