AT&T Opens EDGE Pipe for iPhone and All Customers Benefit?
June 29th, 2007 (3:52am) Judi Sohn 4 CommentsTweet This
Now here’s a welcome surprise for my fellow AT&T wireless customers who aren’t on, or planning to be on, an iPhone line today. According to Wired, Endgadget, and this Howard Forums thread AT&T has flipped a switch on this fine iPhone launch day, and EDGE download speeds are considerably faster. Some are reporting a pretty dramatic increase. Makes sense, given that the #1 reviewer complaint on the iPhone seems to center around the slow EDGE data.
Of course, EDGE itself is as fast as it’s going to get. It’s no 3G. But if AT&T is doing whatever they need to do on their end to squeeze every last drop of bandwidth out of it who are we to complain? Let’s just hope that it isn’t a temporary burst.
I can’t accurately test on my Blackberry, but I do perceive a difference this morning. DSL reports has a mobile test application that works well on Windows Mobile devices. (via a tweet from Steve Rubel)
Are you phone-surfing a little faster this morning?
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No wonder its being called the Jesus phone. The ability to get a dinosaur to speed up overnight.
Thanks for my laugh of the morning, Dave! You nailed it. :-)
It should help people on other networks as well. Competing networks often have agreements in which they use each others towers to provide service. So, if you are on a competing wireless service and are in one of those areas where AT&T provides the service for your company, you may see increased speed.
I haven’t seen any real change on my Treo 680 on AT&T. I routinely see about 138-155 kbps when I check dslreports.com . Still seeing that after the announcement of this “upgrade”. I have to say I don’t find that speed particularly painful for what I use a mobile browser for.