I have an iPhone and I like AT&T provided that I'm in a city with good coverage. I feel like they've done a decent job in LA and they're improving constantly (f

I have an iPhone and I like AT&T provided that I'm in a city with good coverage. I feel like they've done a decent job in LA and they're improving constantly (faster and faster 3g it seems), and they're about on par if not better than the service I get from Verizon. I don't know that many iPhone users in LA that are angry at AT&T. Only if they can't get service in their homes, or if there's some major outage...happens occasionally, but not enough to be a serious bother. That being said, I go up to San Francisco like once a month, and up there my calls exceeding 1 minute drop at an alarming near-100% rate, my text messages are delayed, half my phone calls can't even be received, location services never works because data never works, and if I can't even get GPRS, there goes all my email and more. It's a complete wreck and I can totally understand the AT&T griping then. Part of me thinks that Apple is caving in here to AT&T's requests because the level of service AT&T is providing is hurting Apple because a lot of people are refusing to buy or are no longer buying iPhones because of AT&T. Also because for AT&T to upgrade their network, it will take time, and these little changes can make a big difference while we're waiting for these upgrades to happen (now, whether or not AT&T is actually upgrading their network is a different question....). Lastly, I feel that this kind of situation is one that any carrier would have run into if they had a phone like the iPhone available on their network. It's not just any smartphone, it's a smartphone that changes the usage habits of the users, and changing the user experience of what these users are looking at...no wonder we're all using more data. It would be a strain on any network.