Comments on: Maybe It’s Not the Provider, Maybe It’s the Phone

By: Mario

Mario — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:24:02 +0000

I switched to AT&T from Verizon 2 years ago. I have an iPhone and my wife and daughter have regular phones. All of the phones have issues with dropped calls and occasional lack of service. We live in NJ and I can definitely say that it is the network that is at fault. My wife is so fed up that she is going back to Verizon and she us getting Nexus One as soon as it is out. I’m staying with my iPhone at least till the summer.

By: John Delius

John Delius — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:13:21 +0000

I have been on AT&T now for about two years now. I use an LG Incite (worst phone I have owned) and have only drop about 3 calls in the time that I have had it. Another family member has a Nokia (model ?) and no problems on AT&T and loves her phone. Wife has a Motorola Razor and no problems with it. At work, a coworker bought an iPhone about six months ago, and blames all his problems on AT&T. Poor reception, poor 3G performance. He and I have been in the same room making calls and I have no problems and he is dropping calls. I point this out to him and he still blames AT&T. He says Apple would never make a bad product. I say seeing is believing.

By: Jeffrey Powers

Jeffrey Powers — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:59:48 +0000

A few months ago I posted a video where I took two iPhones and put them next to each other with the compass running. It definitely messed up the compass.

The reason why I did that was to prove the field around the device. In another aspect, even though you have a low field emitting, when you get more phones around you, the bigger a field interruption you might have.

I would say poor reception due to interference. Buildings, other iPhones, etc.

By: Angelo Mandato

Angelo Mandato — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:17:50 +0000

I’m think both are factors, e.g. a good phone on a poor service, a poor phone on a good service, and a poor phone on a poor service.

As for the iPhone, mine works very well here at home. Anytime I travel though (which tend to be to high population areas), the quality of the service drops. I’m convinced that ATnT’s network in high population areas is simply inadequate.

By: John Knights

John Knights — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:48:37 +0000

o2 in UK, no problems with reception that are not massively evident on other handsets on the same network.

Many of the problems over here seem to stem from the massive costs of setting up 3G networks a few years ago (the government licences alone were gigantic investments) and it took or is taking many years to pay off those debts. Infrastructure cannot be renewed at the pace that new tech demands. I think that is where some of the problems lay over here at least.

By: Reese Leysen

Reese Leysen — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:35:19 +0000

iPhone user from Belgium here. Never missed a call. Never heard of missed calls on non-ATT networks.