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[Kies]

Most of T-Mobile's 3G network was operating on 1 T1 circuit earlier this year, in preparation for a huge jump to fiber (required) for HSPA+. HSPA+ is the reason for T-Mobile's high 3G network capacity NOW.

Next, if AT&T knows and anticipates high usage at events like they did at SWSX why didn't they do it for this event? Apparently as long as they don't get ridiculed nationally it's not worth the preparation?

T-Mobile's 33 million customers have to be hiding out somewhere. I guess they're all lumped in one city too?

If that event had been filled with the same amount of customer's but on T-Mobile it would have failed miserably too. Spectrum mean's nothing when the tower's overloaded

I have to stop here, explain...

[Guest 171]

Most of T-Mobile's 3G network was operating on 1 T1 circuit earlier this year, in preparation for a huge jump to fiber (required) for HSPA+. HSPA+ is the reason for T-Mobile's high 3G network capacity NOW.

Next, if AT&T knows and anticipates high usage at events like they did at SWSX why didn't they do it for this event? Apparently as long as they don't get ridiculed nationally it's not worth the preparation?

T-Mobile's 33 million customers have to be hiding out somewhere. I guess they're all lumped in one city too?



I have to stop here, explain...

You can only have so much spectrum in use by one tower. But when big event's happen and there is a cluster&*&% of iPhone's it's bound to happen. If anything the signaling channels were too tied up to process the simplest of text's when thousand's of user's are all sharing a measly 8 tower's. I commend them for correcting the issue this year and realizing how many customer's they had, they liked to pretend they were tiny and didn't have many customer's. Once event shouldn't be the doom of a carrier though, I can name several national and regional outages T-Mobile has had here and most people don't hold that against them toady.

[RCtennis3811]

With more spectrum and money, low overage thresholds on new customers and a "HSPA+" network reaching 250 million customers at the end of business TODAY.. (baloney) the network should be able to handle what they have. 90 million AT&T customers at one major event has to be one major event. I didn't even know all of AT&T's 90 million customers all lived in the same city and went to the same events. It's really hard to believe that all 90 million of them are in an urban city. It's just one excuse after another.

I don't know how you construed me implying that all 90-million customers were at one event; that was nowhere near what I'm talking about. My point is that with 90-million customers, you're more than likely to have more network congestion at large events such as SxSW. Plus, it's Texas, where almost everyone uses AT&T.

I guarantee you there were far more AT&T customers at SxSW than any other carrier. Now if this were an event were elsewhere, I'd say the same thing for other carriers (IE Verizon in the NE).

Ironically, T-Mobile is the second most-used carrier in Dallas-Fort Worth according to The Dallas Morning News. Like AT&T, their network has failed SEVERAL times during busy holiday seasons when I used to work for Ralph Lauren. Sure AT&T's network deserves criticisms for failing to have a consistently stable 3G network, but a lot of you fail to realize that there is SIGNIFICANT progress that has been made.

[Antenna]

AT&T in California:



Test conducted at a low traffic area in San Bernardino, CA (full bars on a Samsung Tab android). The T-Mobile tests where conducted in the same location on a Nexus One.

[Antenna]

I don't know how you construed me implying that all 90-million customers were at one event; that was nowhere near what I'm talking about. My point is that with 90-million customers, you're more than likely to have more network congestion at large events such as SxSW. Plus, it's Texas, where almost everyone uses AT&T.

I guarantee you there were far more AT&T customers at SxSW than any other carrier. Now if this were an event were elsewhere, I'd say the same thing for other carriers (IE Verizon in the NE).

Ironically, T-Mobile is the second most-used carrier in Dallas-Fort Worth according to The Dallas Morning News. Like AT&T, their network has failed SEVERAL times during busy holiday seasons when I used to work for Ralph Lauren. Sure AT&T's network deserves criticisms for failing to have a consistently stable 3G network, but a lot of you fail to realize that there is SIGNIFICANT progress that has been made.

No failures when I worked at Cooks Childrens Hospital in Arlington and lived in Fort Worth. T-Mobile worked flawless to me.

[RCtennis3811]

No failures when I worked at Cooks Childrens Hospital in Arlington and lived in Fort Worth. T-Mobile worked flawless to me.

Well maybe not here anymore. Good luck getting an HSPA+ signal in many places around Dallas. There's a reason why I returned the webConnect Rocket. ;-)

[RCtennis3811]

AT&T in California:



Test conducted at a low traffic area in San Bernardino, CA (full bars on a Samsung Tab android). The T-Mobile tests where conducted in the same location on a Nexus One.

I guess I'll counter.

Test conducted in a high traffic area in Dallas, Texas (Starbucks off Northwest Highway/Preston Road) at about 8PM. 4 bars of 3G. In fact, my iPhone 4 is sitting next to a few other iPhone in our finals study group.



EDIT: Just for kicks, I tested about 10x in a row. Here's my "slowest" speed.

[Antenna]

Well maybe not here anymore. Good luck getting an HSPA+ signal in many places around Dallas. There's a reason why I returned the webConnect Rocket. ;-)

AWS works great here, but it was not working yet when I lived in Fort Worth (2006-2008), I will give you that. Going back to visit next year so I will have a better idea then.

[Kies]

I don't know how you construed me implying that all 90-million customers were at one event; that was nowhere near what I'm talking about. My point is that with 90-million customers, you're more than likely to have more network congestion at large events such as SxSW. Plus, it's Texas, where almost everyone uses AT&T.

Ironically, T-Mobile is the second most-used carrier in Dallas-Fort Worth according to The Dallas Morning News.

AT&T's customer count includes a big portion of wholesale activity. They obviously have more customers in rural areas due to numerous acquisitions and lower band spectrum. The majority of T-Mobile customers live in urban areas. The difference between subscribers becomes much smaller when you take in these variables.

And apparently that's not the case in Dallas-Fort Worth.. not to mention I recently recall someone posting extremely contradicting network speedtests in your same city. I wonder why.

[ilvla2]

We all know that ilvla2's world consists of only Mendocino (and maybe Lake) county. Anyone who doesn't invest in Mendocino/Lake counties "has failed to invest in their network". Anyone who does invest in Mendocino/Lake counties "planned ahead and has invested in their network", regardless of how crappy said network might be outside of Mendocino/Lake counties.

You need to take a course in niceness and etiquette there mi amigo, seriously, well, that and get more to do with your life than worry about what I say or put words in my mouth If you want to talk about people that are so focused on their world that nobody else matters, that would be the Bay Area, as far as they know we don't even exist up here, nevermind that they serve us with their TV Stations, Newspapers, etc. and that we're part of the SF/OAK/SJ BTA, now stick that in your pipe and smoke it I've been here longer than you, have a very good reputation and have made many friends, I think i can survive what one bored individual in the Bay Area thinks about me, now, let's get back to the subject, and not clutter up the thread with Awj's epistle's on ilvla2...

[i0wnj00]

I think i can survive what one bored individual in the Bay Area thinks about me, now, let's get back to the subject, and not clutter up the thread with Awj's epistle's on ilvla2...

I'm sure there is more than one individual on this forum who agrees with awj223. I mean let's face it, you live in the sticks and you obviously can't deal with the fact that AT&T either forgot or don't think investing in your area is worthwhile for their overall goals. Nor can you get over your precious Edge Wireless like the rest of us got over how the rest of us had do deal with the legacy of crap (or goodness) from AT&T Wireless or whoever AT&T gobbled up.

I went through two network transitions in the past several years for better or worse, yet I don't dig up crap how they did things better. That's was the past.

If you hate AT&T that much then switch providers or move back to the city. Living in the sticks is only for people who can accept to live without certain things...I wasn't one of them, that's why I moved back to the city, instead of whining about this and that.

[Antenna]

I don't think they care about many parts of California. My area is in the middle of Suburbia and my speeds are <1M/sec....AT&T could do way better lets face it. Out of their own mouth they said NYC and SF markets suck.

[ilvla2]

I'm sure there is more than one individual on this forum who agrees with awj223. I mean let's face it, you live in the sticks and you obviously can't deal with the fact that AT&T either forgot or don't think investing in your area is worthwhile for their overall goals. Nor can you get over your precious Edge Wireless like the rest of us got over how the rest of us had do deal with the legacy of crap (or goodness) from AT&T Wireless or whoever AT&T gobbled up.

I went through two network transitions in the past several years for better or worse, yet I don't dig up crap how they did things better. That's was the past.

If you hate AT&T that much then switch providers or move back to the city.

You have a nice day too bro, thanks for the warm wishes and kind words! Gee, I feel so warm and fuzzy about you now...NOT I thought we were friends, I guess not.

By the way, if you want to tell me off, do it in IM, I'm not going to get in a flame war or shouting match on here, period. Please don't muck up the threads with useless stuff like this, I know I, and the rest of the forum would appreciate it

[RCtennis3811]

And apparently that's not the case in Dallas-Fort Worth.. not to mention I recently recall someone posting extremely contradicting network speedtests in your same city. I wonder why.

For that, I've continually countered with tons of new speed test images. We can go back-and-forth on this all day, but for each carrier lots of us will get poor results, and lots of us will get great results in the same metro areas.

And to that poster who you're referring to (I think I know who it might be), they weren't testing in the same areas as I was. While I continually praise AT&T's network in DFW, I know it's not the same throughout the entire metro every hour of the day. Kind of like how those in LA have different results than those in OC, even though both are part of same region.

[RCtennis3811]

AWS works great here, but it was not working yet when I lived in Fort Worth (2006-2008), I will give you that. Going back to visit next year so I will have a better idea then.

T-Mobile's main problem in DFW is penetration. We may not have mountains, but we have tons of steel and concrete everywhere. In my 6-day testing period with T-Mobile, my speeds were only great in Uptown Dallas and outside a building. 2G, however, is just as good as AT&T.