AT&T Fail! USA MMS coming Sept. 25th

[Satcomer]

Originally Posted by ElDiabloConCaca

Well, I do hail from the city where AT&T's ex-headquarters are, so I'm sure that my benign, uneventful, and reliable relationship with AT&T is due to that fact that this city got preferential treatment for many years.

You lucky sun of gun! How is the 3G outside town?

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Heh... it's pretty much perfect everywhere -- I can get 3G reception all the way north to Dallas (approx. 360 miles away) along I-35, and I get 3G service almost all the way down to the coast (Port Aransas, Rockport, Corpus Christi, etc.).

Outside of town is a little spotty in the rural areas... I can get 3G all the way west to at least Boerne, but last time I ventured farther than that to Fredericksburg, I had to put up with EDGE. Boo hoo! Hehe...

I typically never leave 3G coverage, even when I travel (which is infrequent, anyway).

Inside of the city, where most of my time is spent, I get DSL-like speeds on 3G: typically between 1.5 and 2.0Mbit/sec download and 256-500k upload speeds (sometimes up to 1Mbit).

As you can see from AT&T's 3G coverage map, I've pretty much got excellent reception all over the place within 500 miles of where I am:

http://www.wireless.att.com/coverageviewer/

Now, mind you, a lot of carriers tend to "over-state" their coverage, and AT&T is no exception.

We did have a small hiccup some months ago when SXSW (South-By-Southwest, a music festival, indie-film type thing) was going on up in Austin -- apparently, AT&T's network was so overloaded with iPhones at that time (which is no surprise -- every Birkenstock-wearing, emo-hippie-vegan with an iPhone comes flooding into town for SXSW) that it affected all of south Texas!

[Satcomer]

Originally Posted by ElDiabloConCaca

We did have a small hiccup some months ago when SXSW (South-By-Southwest, a music festival, indie-film type thing) was going on up in Austin -- apparently, AT&T's network was so overloaded with iPhones at that time (which is no surprise -- every Birkenstock-wearing, emo-hippie-vegan with an iPhone comes flooding into town for SXSW) that it affected all of south Texas!

Sounds like AT&T should deploy those new MicroCells all over at the event, in the thousands.

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Heh... not a bad idea. I think they got their problems ironed out after the first day.