[DragonMaster]

AT$T is just GREEDY. Once another carrier gets the iPhone you will see them finally do something then.

[Erod]

i agree with you and I hope that the iphone goes to Verizon or T-mobile so we can leave this useless carrier(AT&T) I still can't believe that they aren't ready for the iphone 3GS and the 3.0 update, SHAME ON YOU AT$T.

[Brendan_McKinley]

AT&T's network is an embarrassment, I would be happy if I could get 2G. When I type in my address in to their network checker, they don't even recognize my address exists, never mind offer any services.
Meanwhile Verizon offers 3G in my area and to neighboring towns that are even more rural.

[ggore]

You'd think that after 20 years, AT&T would have every populated area of the US covered by at least some form of service, but you can't drive north-south or east-west on any interstate highway and have any service across the entire country. The CDMA carriers have nearly nationwide coverage. AT&T hasn't added any new coverage areas in years, only beefing up the coverage in areas they already serve or used to serve, since the analog cutoff reduced their coverage by 40% They are still building EDGE towers to cover the area they used to serve with analog. 3G coverage is only small polka dots all over the map, and now they're starting to roll out 4G/LTE. By the time 3G is anywhere close to full coverage, AT&T will be on to 6-7G I'm sure.
Our coverage here was actually reduced with the Dobson/AT&T merger, as AT&T was forced to sell off the Dobson home area due to "competitive" reasons. Now we have no service as the operator of the old Dobson equipment doesn't have roaming agreements with AT&T.

[Glenn_Fleishman]

Bad they goofed it up on both MMS and tethering, but 7.2 is not really an issue yet. With overloaded networks and dropping calls, raising the theoretical data speed limit is not achieving anything. Better caching and a faster Safari in the 3GS should do much more for the mobile browsing experience.

Do recall that AT&T has this huge initiate to put in more backhaul and frequency. We'll see if it pays off. The biggest problem I consistently hear from analysts about 3G and 4G is that many, many cell towers have little backhaul. If a cell site can only push 5 Mbps upstream to the network over optical or point-to-point wireless and the site has enough channels available for 40 Mbps, you can see the problem.

[Philip Michaels]

Stormchild said:

It's HSDPA,

Typographical error. It's fixed now.

[penkapp]

Anchorage, Alaska, the state's largest city, just got "vanilla" 3G on May 26. All this time, we had been suffering with EDGE. Sigh...

[libertyforall1776]

The REAL question I haven't seen revealed elsewhere, is what is the Broadcom chip model in the iPhone 3GS -- this would tell us if 802.11N is lurking in there somewhere!!