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Following up on yesterday’s news that Apple is preparing to start production on Verizon-compatible iPhones<\/a>, the Wall Street Journal now says that AT&T has been working since December to improve their existing networks to remain competitive when the inevitable battle for iPhone market share begins.<\/p>\n Even before the iPhone, AT&T’s mobile network has always been criticized for its poor coverage in major cities. (As both an AT&T subscriber and a New York City resident, I can attest to this firsthand.) The Journal story claims that the company launched a 100-day plan in late 2009 to begin to remedy this problem — adding new network spectrum, repositioning towers and improving the connection speed on cell towers.<\/p>\n AT&T has already said that they plan on spending $2 billion more in 2010 on network improvements than they did in 2009.<\/p>\n What remains to be seen is if Verizon (and potentially others), who have not had to handle the high-amount of data devouring done by iPhone users<\/a>, will be able to keep up with customer demand or if they’ll experience the same growing pains as AT&T has in recent years.<\/p>\n