{"id":142463,"date":"2010-01-05T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/15a4459ebe1b9dba444f04ed5cea13e2"},"modified":"2010-01-05T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T23:35:00","slug":"article-att-activates-hspa-nationwide-with-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/142463","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: AT&amp;T activates HSPA nationwide, with restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/1\/90490-att_logo.jpg\" alt=\"AT&amp;T Logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hot on the heels of T-Mobile&#8217;s HSPA announcement earlier in the day, AT&amp;T was quick to announce the availability of an HSPA 7.2 Mbps software boost to their existing 3G footprint, beating their original deadline of 2010 by a year.&nbsp; Upgrading is one thing, but the issue lies in AT&amp;T&#8217;s non-upgraded back-end system.&nbsp; Yes, you&#8217;re reading it correctly: the network is capable, but the back-end doesn&#8217;t support it just yet.&nbsp; The nation&#8217;s second largest wireless carrier says that most of the data it handles will operate over the upgraded back end by the end of 2010.&nbsp; Rollouts of <em>true<\/em> HSPA (front-end and back-end) continue in Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, and Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Think of it like a funnel &#8211; large at one end, small at the other.&nbsp; In order for AT&amp;T to improve their back-end, they have to turn the funnel into a cylinder &#8211; equal in size when it comes to the front-end and back-end.&nbsp; That&#8217;s expected to happen just before 2011 in all 3G markets nationwide.&nbsp; Considering Verizon&#8217;s claim to have LTE rollouts in progress then, it would be prudent to complete the back-end upgrades as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/05\/atandt-kicks-it-into-overdrive-rolls-out-7-2mbps-everywhere-bu\/\" >Engadget Mobile<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rBByDreqTnjHf-W89__KH_4K12g\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rBByDreqTnjHf-W89__KH_4K12g\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rBByDreqTnjHf-W89__KH_4K12g\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rBByDreqTnjHf-W89__KH_4K12g\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/ifVbnPf0zkY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of T-Mobile&#8217;s HSPA announcement earlier in the day, AT&amp;T was quick to announce the availability of an HSPA 7.2 Mbps software boost to their existing 3G footprint, beating their original deadline of 2010 by a year.&nbsp; Upgrading is one thing, but the issue lies in AT&amp;T&#8217;s non-upgraded back-end system.&nbsp; Yes, you&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}