{"id":244867,"date":"2010-01-28T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/f4ff2ad84316972241f34268477fe69c"},"modified":"2010-01-28T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T01:15:00","slug":"article-att-were-closing-the-gap-on-coverage-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/244867","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: AT&amp;T: We&#8217;re closing the gap on coverage issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/1\/92539-att-q409-slide-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition to a spectacular fourth quarter, AT&amp;T took the time to address a primary issue in the minds of customers: the network.<\/p>\n<p>The nation&#8217;s second largest wireless carrier is working on backhaul renovations, 7.2 Mbps rollouts, and adding new carriers to existing cell sites in an effort to boost coverage in high-capacity areas.&nbsp; New York City and San Francisco, you weren&#8217;t forgotten, as AT&amp;T spent time touting improvements in 3G Voice Composite Quality Index over the past few months.&nbsp; Both cities have &#8220;performance objectives&#8221; that the company is working to attain.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, dropped calls appear to have dropped (no pun intended) from 1.41 percent to 1.05 percent network-wide between December of 2008 and December of 2009.&nbsp; Given that the iPad is on its way, it makes sense that AT&amp;T would be working quickly to address network issues.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Have you experienced improvements in your coverage?&nbsp; Sound off in the comments section!<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/28\/atandt-says-its-closing-the-gap-on-dropped-calls\/\" >Engadget<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/y7xd-0nfEIp_AUGJJlX-hI5L_R4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/y7xd-0nfEIp_AUGJJlX-hI5L_R4\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/y7xd-0nfEIp_AUGJJlX-hI5L_R4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/y7xd-0nfEIp_AUGJJlX-hI5L_R4\/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\/3xycSI5xh8E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to a spectacular fourth quarter, AT&amp;T took the time to address a primary issue in the minds of customers: the network. The nation&#8217;s second largest wireless carrier is working on backhaul renovations, 7.2 Mbps rollouts, and adding new carriers to existing cell sites in an effort to boost coverage in high-capacity areas.&nbsp; New [&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-244867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244867","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=244867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}