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Boo hoo. AT&T is offering a product just like any other business. They don't get special sympathy just because they have millions of customers. When I pay my
by physcab 17y ago
Boo hoo. AT&T is offering a product just like any other business. They don't get special sympathy just because they have millions of customers. When I pay my ghastly $100/month bill I expect to get the service I paid for (access to internet whenever I want) and as long as I'm getting that coverage, I'll be happy. Sorry NYTimes, I don't buy it.
- likpok 17y agoAT&T has more of a scalability problem than most businesses. Usually you don't have the laws of physics coming in to interfere quite as strictly.
- stcredzero 17y agoIf they could fix Austin by bringing in some temporary cells, then they're facing something besides the laws of physics, at least for that one town. How does the denisty & bandwidth use compare with Tokyo, Japan?
- gojomo 17y agoAnd how does the red tape required to add a tower/antenna compare?
- chrisbolt 17y agoThe iPhone has been out for over two years now. There isn't that much red tape.
- gojomo 17y agoHave you been to a community meeting about adding new cell antennas in (for example) San Francisco or Berkeley? It ain't pretty. See for example: http://www.antennafreeunion.org/ http://www.antennafreeunion.org/ http://www.no-celltower.com/ http://www.no-celltower.com/
- likpok 17y agoAt some point you have to accept that there is finite bandwidth. Shannon says that if you have an arbitrarily noisy channel, you can get data through it slowly. The problem is that people don't want slowly, they want it now.