Apparently so! What? They can charge iPhone users an outrageous premium for their cell data plans, ludicrous amounts for their text messaging service, provide us with a crappy network, and then claim that had no idea iPhone users would want a network that worked with all of the features the iPhone affords?
This is as ridiculous as Delta Airlines making me sit on a plane for 90 minutes while they fuel it up. They had no idea planes need fuel before they checked it out of the hanger and allowed passengers to board it?
How typical of corporate America. Lying, greedy thugs with management that is rotten to the core! Yet another reason for Apple to make the iPhone available on other networks!
As part of a larger New York Times article discussing the problems some iPhone users are having with AT&T's network, AT&T CTO John Donovan said the company has had a hard time keeping up with data demand. "It's been a challenging year for us," said Donovan. "Overnight we're seeing a radical shift in how people are using their phones," he said. "There's just no parallel for the demand." The report states that the company has delayed its rollout of MMS multimedia messaging for the iPhone, and has postponed computer-to-iPhone tethering as well, although it's unclear whether the delays will last past the end of summer, as previously announced for MMS. Finally, AT&T states that the majority of the roughly $18 billion it will spend this year on its networks will go towards upgrades and expansions to help meet the demands placed on the 3G network.
[From AT&T seeing 'radical shift' in cellphone usage | iLounge News]
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