Wired.com’s iPhone 3G survey reveals network weaknesses
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Aug 25, 2008 at 2:13pm
Wired’s survey of iPhone 3G users suggests that widespread data speed problems have more to do with carriers’ networks than with Apple’s handsets.
Recently Wired.com asked iPhone 3G users all around the world to participate in a study, which involved testing their 3G speeds and entering their data on an interactive map. Go to Wired.com for the complete results—and an interactive map.
However, here is part of the publication’s summary: “In our view, this data is a strong indicator that performance of the mobile carrier’s network is affecting the iPhone 3G more than the handset itself. Correlating with our study’s findings, Teknik & Trender reported that iPhone 3G’s reception performed roughly the same as other handsets when run through a test chamber. Altogether, this furthers our thesis that it’s highly unlikely that Apple is going to wave a magic wand and say, ‘3G problems, be gone,’ with a software update. Before Apple can make such a claim, it needs to wait for all of its carriers to optimize 3G network behavior—in terms of number of towers, how they’re positioned and how much bandwidth each tower can handle”
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
