[GREENovaters]

Although AT$T has great partnerships overseas, and thus, has great coverage I have found that it does NOT have that quality here in the USA! It has been TWO YEARS since the iPhone was launched.... long enough for AT$T to get its network built out but it hasn't done that! I live in Silver Spring, MD where one would think that there would be good coverage but there is not.
It is time for Apple to split with AT$T and provide its millions of users a provider that will spend money on its infrastructure. Period.

[GREENovaters]

REALLY? Then come to my home and explain why I, living in a close in suburb of Washington DC, cannot get a signal.....

[MacJoe1]

Okay, it's Wednesday morning, June 17th, 9:30AM Central Time, and no iPhone 3.0 in sight.

When I click "Check for Update" in iTunes with my iPhone attached, all I get is the "This version of the iPhone software (2.2.1) is the current version." message.

When I go to the Apple website, on the iPhone 3.0 page, it states, "Download the 3.0 Software Update. Available June 17." but there is no button to click or hyperlinked text to select.

What Gives?!

Where's the update?!

[countrybeat]

While macjj2 gives nice company rhetoric, if AT&T really listened to customers and responded to their needs, would this thread exist?
The iPhone is by far the coolest phone available. When people talk about other phones they always compare to iPhone. Only one thing keeps me from having one... AT&T.

[poriggity]

Being a big fan of the Iphone, and owning a 2g Iphone, I can say without a doubt, that it is the best phone I have ever used, and is very functional. It has become an integral part of daily life for me, and at this point, I can't see myself owning anything else but an Iphone. That being said, ATT SUCKS. Their service sucks, the way they treat their customers sucks, and NO ONE in their stores knows what the hell they were doing. They couldn't sell peanuts to a starving elephant. I will stay with ATT, simply because I am an extra line on my in laws phone plan, which makes the iphone rediculously cheap every month... $9.99/month extra line charge, plus another $20/month for unlimited data... as opposed to the $100 range. I do hate the company with a burning passion though!
Scott

[IsleHdwGuy]

As someone who has worked in the telephone industry for years, as well as being a long time Mac zealot I find the "dance" between ATT and Apple to be intriguing. In thinking about the US market, our choice in carriers with a nationwide foot print come down to 4, each of which would come with their own assortment of problems. ATT has a GSM network that at best could be described as suspect but allows Apple to build 1 handset to cover most of the world. T-Mobile also has a GSM network, but it's coverage and customer base is even worse than ATT's. Verizon has an outdated CDMA network and can not spell the words customer service OR leading edge technologies. This is the company that to this day, cripples thier bluetooth enabled phones so they can get an extra fee from you if you want to sync your phone to your Mac. That leaves Sprint which has the same network issues as Verizon, plus the question of if they will survive.
So, my guess is that Apple simply chose the carrier with the least amount of negatives, hoping they would be able to beat them into submission.
I am still hoping and waiting for the day when the cellular companies just become a transport service and I can bring what ever handset I want to use to whichever network I want to use it on.
Maybe someday!
Aloha.

[varase]

I too have my doubts. In fact, I'd bet that any carrier would have problems keeping up with an unlimited internet customer-base which actually - - used their internet.

Remember folks - AT&T (or Cingular) actually aquiesed in making network changes to allow things like visual voicemail, when other carriers just rejected those changes out of hand.

OTOH, it's kind of curious why AT&T didn't have mutimedia messaging available at 3.0 intro time - I think that other non-iPhone users use MMS regularly, and we iPhone users are already paying for it even if we aren't getting it.

Maybe it's because too many iPhone users are on unlimited messaging plans, and whereas other users get a message and think of it like your would an email - whereas iPhone users think of it as a line in a script?