AT&T: “We’re Closing the Gap” in New York and San Francisco

AT&T’s overtaxed network has been the subject of considerable negative attention recently. No surprise, then, that the network figured prominently during the company’s earnings call this morning. The carrier everyone loves to hate would like us all to know that it’s making progress in New York City and San Francisco, two high-volume markets with equally high-volume complaints about AT&T’s wireless service.

AT&T 3G Improving–If You Can Get a Signal

So AT&T has finished upgrading its 3G footprint to HSPA 7.2, completing the first phase of an effort that will improve connection reliability and at some point later this year or in 2011, raise its maximum 3G data speed to 7.2 Mbps from 3.6 Mbps. Welcome news for long-suffering AT&T subscribers–but only those in cities where additional back-haul connections have been added to support those higher speeds.
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