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FROM APPLETELL - Roughly Drafted has some information from “a source close to AT&T” as to why you may have updated your iPhone 3G and still don’t have your reception problems fixed.
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I’ve posted elsewhere that I believe that the problems users encounter are indicative of a QOS—or, quality of service—issue with the iPhone, and support for those settings on any given network. I still believe that is the case.
The explanation offered by this “… source close to AT&T;” is ridiculous on its face, as a mobile handset device does not get “power” from “network base stations.” This claim seriously ‘dumbs down’ the conversation about the issue. It does, however, lend weak credence to the idea that this issue is a QOS mismatch problem with nearby cellular arrays, resulting in poor receptions and inappropriate switching from one network segment to another.
It’s hard to imagine, however—since the sensitivity of individual mobile handsets and their QOS related performance has little or no bearing on network loading or the performance of other mobile handsets—that updates to other devices would improve the performance of any given iPhone, or—in an environment where users had not yet updated—that the performance of any other device would suffer as a result.
Shorthand: this is a SILLY explanation, by an individual who does not understand basic cellular technologies, or cannot manage to find a coherent way to explain the claim.
on August 29, 2008 at 10:51 AM - LINK