{"id":244054,"date":"2010-01-28T11:42:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5458684"},"modified":"2010-01-28T11:42:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:42:49","slug":"att-owns-up-to-shoddy-nyc-and-san-francisco-service-att","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/244054","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T Owns Up to Shoddy NYC and San Francisco Service [At&amp;t]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/attchart1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/500x_attchart1.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>Well, AT&#038;T just finished up a call to discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5458597\/sorry-download-speeds-att-added-4-million-3g-devices-last-quarter\">their earnings<\/a> announced earlier today. The verdict on 3G performance its most heavily trafficked cities: still needs work! A lot of it. They even gave us a chart to prove it!<\/p>\n<p>Apple executives described the system overload as a &#8220;high quality&#8221; problem, which from a business perspective may be so, but consumers may categorize it differently. The good news is that there&#8217;s undeniable improvement over the last several months, particularly in Manhattan. The bad news is that we&#8217;re still pretty far below AT&#038;T&#8217;s arbitrary &#8220;performance objective,&#8221; which is still going to be somewhere below perfect.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/att2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/500x_att2.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>AT&#038;T expects &#8220;significant improvement&#8221; going forward, and they&#8217;re increasing infrastructure spending by $2 billion to back it up. But until one in every fifty 3G calls stops getting blocked or dropped nationwide, I&#8217;m going to have to believe it when I see it.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=19684af3da8225277ebce4aa9a439226&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=19684af3da8225277ebce4aa9a439226&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=FLqJ2gAe0fc:6dnVT94nauY:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=FLqJ2gAe0fc:6dnVT94nauY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=FLqJ2gAe0fc:6dnVT94nauY:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=FLqJ2gAe0fc:6dnVT94nauY:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=FLqJ2gAe0fc:6dnVT94nauY:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=FLqJ2gAe0fc:6dnVT94nauY:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/FLqJ2gAe0fc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, AT&#038;T just finished up a call to discuss their earnings announced earlier today. The verdict on 3G performance its most heavily trafficked cities: still needs work! A lot of it. They even gave us a chart to prove it! Apple executives described the system overload as a &#8220;high quality&#8221; problem, which from a business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244054","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}