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AT&T is just horrible. I am in Bangladesh right now and I jailbreaked my iphone and I am using GSM from a local provider called "GrameenPhone"; I have better ne

by pavs 16y ago

AT&T is just horrible. I am in Bangladesh right now and I jailbreaked my iphone and I am using GSM from a local provider called "GrameenPhone"; I have better network and internet speed here than I had in NY with AT&T. Pathetic.

bradgessler 16y ago
The same thing happened to me in Egypt and Jordan.
sliverstorm 16y ago
FWIW, if you had a CDMA phone you couldn't have done that (not an argument for AT&T, but for GSM)
- pavs 16y ago
  I would never get a CDMA phone. iphone or not, AT&T sucks.
  - joeguilmette 16y ago
    Clearly someone is getting their alphabet soup backwards...
- Locke1689 16y ago
  That's not an argument for GSM, it's an argument for SIM cards. The increased station density requirement for UMTS makes me hate it with a passion. Low freq transmission is finally fixing that problem but it's too little too late. Everyone should have just thrown their weight behind CHDMA2000 1x -> LTE. (In case you can't tell, I'm annoyed that the majority of the world chose the technically shitty TDMA/GSM -> GPRS -> W-CDMA rather than the 2G CDMA -> CDMA2000 1X. The worst part is people saying that CDMA2000 1X was backwards because the rest of the world chose W-CDMA.)
edge17 16y ago
not to disagree with your point, but it's a supply/demand issue. In Bangladesh, I'm sure the pipes they don't have enough of (though times are changing) deliver water. In the US, the pipes we have issue with are the ones that deliver data. Market's will eventually resolve the supply/demand imbalance but things take time to build. The expectation for things to happen instantly is partially a product of the instant-information age we've been living in for the last 10-12 years. These days so much of the demand side is expected to be instant that we forget the production side isn't. I'd also be curious to see bandwidth production/consumption data broken down by country.

by pavs 16y ago

bradgessler 16y ago

The same thing happened to me in Egypt and Jordan.

sliverstorm 16y ago

FWIW, if you had a CDMA phone you couldn't have done that (not an argument for AT&T, but for GSM)

pavs 16y ago
I would never get a CDMA phone. iphone or not, AT&T sucks.
- joeguilmette 16y ago
  Clearly someone is getting their alphabet soup backwards...
Locke1689 16y ago
That's not an argument for GSM, it's an argument for SIM cards. The increased station density requirement for UMTS makes me hate it with a passion. Low freq transmission is finally fixing that problem but it's too little too late. Everyone should have just thrown their weight behind CHDMA2000 1x -> LTE. (In case you can't tell, I'm annoyed that the majority of the world chose the technically shitty TDMA/GSM -> GPRS -> W-CDMA rather than the 2G CDMA -> CDMA2000 1X. The worst part is people saying that CDMA2000 1X was backwards because the rest of the world chose W-CDMA.)

edge17 16y ago

not to disagree with your point, but it's a supply/demand issue. In Bangladesh, I'm sure the pipes they don't have enough of (though times are changing) deliver water. In the US, the pipes we have issue with are the ones that deliver data. Market's will eventually resolve the supply/demand imbalance but things take time to build. The expectation for things to happen instantly is partially a product of the instant-information age we've been living in for the last 10-12 years. These days so much of the demand side is expected to be instant that we forget the production side isn't. I'd also be curious to see bandwidth production/consumption data broken down by country.