I hate the AT&T coverage in Seattle and you can only use them with the Iphone. Sorry Jobs, you won’t get my business till you dump your exclusive carrier arrangements.
AT&T is notorious for over subscribing their networks and you get dropped calls constantly with them. I’m sure its going to get even worse with everyone doing large data downloands on their 3G network.
Actually, I've heard that AT&T has been quite a bit into upgrading their backbones for the very purpose of handling 3G communications. I'm just waiting until my Verizon plan expires in January.
Wouldn’t matter - since the iPhone is a world phone, it runs on the GSM radio network. (The rest of the world uses GSM; most US carriers use the incompatible and cheeseparing CDMA system.)
There’s only two companies in the US with a GSM net - ATT and TMobile. TMobile is so bad as to be basically unusable anyway in most areas.
So, even if you got an unlocked iPhone... what would you do with it???
Also, as a current iPhone user, I can tell you that I don’t have a dropped call problem and that my data downloads are pretty quick, even for 2.5G.
I was a long time ATT user. I used to have the infamous dropped calls problem - then I dumped the crappy Nokias they gave away for free at the time and went to a Motorola RAZR. The problem went away.
As for oversubscribing, not seeing it. And I’m a heavy user, 4-7000 minutes a month.
Dang I hope Jobs don't see this post, he probably won't sleep for a month.
I seldom get a dropped call on my iPhone. The only time that occurs is when the signal is weak.