AT&T to Upgrade 3G Service, iPhone must Wait

From InformationWeek
AT&T Inc plans to announce in coming weeks that it has upgraded its mobile network to let customers send photos or video from their phones to the Internet up to six times faster than before, a top mobile executive said Monday.

Richard Burns, president of AT&T's wireless network services, also said in an interview that the company expects to carry out most of its planned 2007 high-speed wireless upgrades in October and November. Burns said the upgrade to AT&T's high-speed network would increase upload speeds to a range of 500 to 800 kilobits per second (kbps), from its current speed of about 120 kbps.

While reviewers applauded iPhone when it was launched in late June, they criticized AT&T because the phone only runs on its older, slower data network. Burns said company surveys found that iPhone customers were happy with the network, which is based on a technology known as EDGE: "We're surveying them in large numbers week in and week out. They're telling us their EDGE experience is great."

(Shawn's Comment: I gotta call BS on that last line)

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