Do You Use an iPhone? AT&T Hates You, and It Gets Worse From There…
According to PC World in an interview the AT&T Wireless’ CEO, Ralph de la Vega indicated that the amount of data used on their network has grown some 5,000 times in the last three year. However, “… all that data usage is not evenly spread across AT&T’s wireless customer base, De la Vega says–far from it. He cited AT&T research showing that just 3 percent of AT&T’s smartphone customers [read iPhone users] use 40 percent of all smartphone data, that they consume 13 times the data of ‘the average smartphone customer,’ yet represent less than 1 percent of AT&T’s total postpaid customer base.”
Because of a lack of bandwidth available and the inability to implement 4G network upgrades any time soon, what does he think is an ideal solution would be?
“Without the proper management of these networks, De la Vega said, regular data users will be ‘crowded out’ by the small number of users [read iPhone users] who use massive amounts of data. ‘We have to manage the network to make sure that the few cannot crowd out the many,’ De la Vega continued. He said the words ‘crowded out’ at least five times in that part of his keynote address.”
According to PC World’s Mark Sullivan, he seems to think this will mean a “throttling down” of the network. Yikes.
So with all the talk about the iPhone being available on more networks than AT&T’s this turns into an interesting drama. Keep your eyes peeled.
ref: PC World
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