{"id":496561,"date":"2010-03-31T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/4da17047cab046905a8ba84f5bdaed7e"},"modified":"2010-03-31T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T16:50:00","slug":"att-prepares-for-iphone-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/496561","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T prepares for iPhone competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/3\/98295-iphone3gs.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p>AT&amp;T appears to be taking the network complaints to heart, as they&#8217;re continuing the push to improve network conditions, particularly in densely populated areas.&nbsp; According to a story by <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, AT&amp;T  worked with Apple in 2009 to re-define how the iPhone connected to the  carrier&#8217;s network.&nbsp; Thanks to the meetings between the two, the iPhone  now uses fewer resources when seeking cell sites and checking for text  messages.<\/p>\n<p>With yesterday&#8217;s WSJ story regarding Verizon Wireless getting a version of the iPhone, it&#8217;s understandable that AT&amp;T wants to improve network conditions to prevent a wave of cancellations.&nbsp; To that end, they&#8217;re spending $2 billion more on network enhancements this year than they did last year (2009), and continue to add and enhance cell sites as part of a 100-day improvement plan.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the improvements, it appears that the battle of the networks will be in full swing this summer.&nbsp; Will iPhone fans stay on AT&amp;T, or migrate to Verizon?<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phonescoop.com\/news\/item.php?n=5752\" >PhoneScoop<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/03\/31\/atandt-building-out-network-capacity-to-prevent-exodus-to-verizon\/\" >Engadget<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304739104575154072784198614.html\" >WSJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Sghz2VL0UW3EIUfxc3f9lCvWYNw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Sghz2VL0UW3EIUfxc3f9lCvWYNw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Sghz2VL0UW3EIUfxc3f9lCvWYNw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Sghz2VL0UW3EIUfxc3f9lCvWYNw\/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\/soVKMdfDEKc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T appears to be taking the network complaints to heart, as they&#8217;re continuing the push to improve network conditions, particularly in densely populated areas.&nbsp; According to a story by The Wall Street Journal, AT&amp;T worked with Apple in 2009 to re-define how the iPhone connected to the carrier&#8217;s network.&nbsp; Thanks to the meetings between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496561","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=496561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}