Excellent Read - The Apple / AT&T Saga

[Scott Greczkowski]

Bad Connection: Inside the iPhone Network Meltdown | Magazine

 

[mike123abc]

It was a good read. Very interesting to see the back and forth of the whole thing.

 

[TheForce]

The iPhone contributed to AT&T’s income — but it required the company to spend billions on network upgrades.

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that is a poor excuse. Regardless of the iphone or not, AT*T had to upgrade it's network or forever be lost to the wired phone system that is obsolete. If they didn't have the iphone they would have been more present with Blackberry or other data based device or die.

 

[mike123abc]

It is interesting that they think that VZ would have been crushed by the data load too.

And it wasn’t clear that Verizon would be an improvement; at the time, it wasn’t any better equipped than AT&T to deal with the iPhone’s bandwidth demands.

All the cell companies want to coast along making minimal (cheap) improvements and milk the cash cow. They are all scrambling now to meet new data demands.

 

[truckracer]

"putting out fires" instead of thinking ahead..then again the bankers they deal with may not have let them have the investment to do it without proving all the customer base is there. I know in small business you have to sort of "prove to the bank" you can succeed with something before they let you have the $$$$$$