{"id":243199,"date":"2010-01-28T16:24:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001338"},"modified":"2010-01-28T17:31:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T22:31:44","slug":"att-our-service-is-getting-better-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/243199","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T: Our Service Is Getting Better, Really"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/attreport-thumb-500x377-36453.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; margin-top:-8px;\"><\/div>\n<p>AT&#038;T may have <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2009\/12\/att-customer-service-new-york-city-is-not-ready-for-the-iphone.html\">tried to slow sales of the iPhone in New York<\/a> to avoid putting additional stress on its overtaxed network, but in the company&#8217;s earnings call today, the talk was all about how things are getting better. In slides shown to investors, the company pointed to service improvements in New York and San Francisco &#8212; the two cities where customer service chief Ralph De La Vega had <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2009\/12\/att-hints-that-it-might-introduce-usage-based-pricing-for-smartphone-customers.html\">warned that data hogs<\/a> had been eating up too much network capacity. <\/p>\n<p>\nThe company highlighted its network, boasting that it has the &#8220;fastest 3G network&#8221; in the U.S., and reaches &#8220;97 percent&#8221; of the population. Other boasts: 1,900 new cell cites added in 2009, voice quality up 22% and broadband throughput up 19%. <\/p>\n<p>AT&#038;T also said that it plans to spend the next 90 days working on &#8220;Continued Enhancements to Drive Further Improvement.&#8221; Gee, isn&#8217;t there a new, <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/01\/the-ipad-is-a-giant-expensive-iphone.html\">highly anticipated product<\/a> &#8212; that just happens to come with an AT&#038;T 3G card and a $29.99 per month unlimited access plan &#8212; coming out in 90 days? If that product takes off, AT&#038;T had better drive further improvement, or we may hear the company&#8217;s CSRs saying New York isn&#8217;t ready for it. And that may make Steve very unhappy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=http:\/\/www.att.com\/Investor\/Financial\/Earning_Info\/docs\/4Q_09_slide_c.pdf\">AT&#038;T Investor Update<\/a> [AT&#038;T via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/28\/atandt-says-its-closing-the-gap-on-dropped-calls\/\">Engadget<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT&#038;T may have tried to slow sales of the iPhone in New York to avoid putting additional stress on its overtaxed network, but in the company&#8217;s earnings call today, the talk was all about how things are getting better. In slides shown to investors, the company pointed to service improvements in New York and San [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243199","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\/4311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}