This is an astonishing fact! 3 percent of smartphone users are consuming 40 percent of the network capacity. At&T wants its customers to use less wirless data because it's clogging the network. AT&T's head of wireless,said "the wireless operator is considering incentives to get consumers to reduce their data usage."
They plan to gives incentives to encourage phones users to use less data usage.
The video and the audio features on the phone are the culprits for the data usage becoming clogged. The iphone uses more data than the standard phone. It has gotten so bad at&t had a program application that allows users to report service problems. By AT&T having a 3G network , people were accessing more data and clogging up service.
At&t is looking into reducing phone plan serivices in order to free up the network. This isn't the answer to the issue. It's more like a band aid. AT&T is asking the Federal Communications Commission to find more spectrum to auction off that can be used for wireless data services. With the creation of the cell phone with applications, it will be extremely hard to find more space. Teen's are purchasing more phones thus getting more apps and clogging more space in the network. This reminds me when they were running low with IP address.
This is kind of interesting because I think that half of the reason people want and iPhone is because of all of the fun apps and the fact that they can listen to music and go online from anywhere. If the iPhone is anything like my Google Android phone, it needs to use the data network for almost everything.
ReplyDeleteThis is very interesting! I hope they don't try and limit the amount allowed per iPhone or something! I probably don't use mine nearly as much as some people (teens and businesses), but I still don't want my data usage amounts limited!! Most of the time I'm on WiFi anyway, but when I'm not in range of WiFi, of course I need the satellite's to connect to the network. Please keep us posted if anything changes on this Justin!
ReplyDeleteHow funny, they want to reduce the data usage? I think that is really funny, because that is the reason why people are getting this phone. Also if you can not use the phone to the fullest, what is the purpose of having it ? This fact is really interesting because based on how expensive the phone is, and how much is the plan, we would think AT&T would have enoegh resources to fix this problem. This problem would definitely drive potential customers away, it could also make apple switch its networking operator.
ReplyDeleteMy wife has an iPhone and it still to this day astonishes me how many different applications she has. As for AT&T I do not know if they realize that this problem will only continue to increase. As mentioned above the main reason for getting these smart phones is for access of these apps and to tell people how much they can and cannot use will not fix the problem.
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