AT&T Performing Massive Network Update for Next-Gen iPhone
According to Apple Insider, AT&T is trying to increase the coverage, reliability, and speed of it’s 3g network for the coming of Apple’s next-gen iPhone. The new iPhone hardware is expected to be released this summer, perhaps during WWDC in June as they did last year.
The current network supports up to 3.6Mb/s, however AT&T also stated they have capabilities to go to 7.2Mb/s, with 14.4 and 20Mb/s in the next few years. The next gen iPhone is reported to have high-speed HSDPA (7.2Mb/s), which would require and improvement to AT&T’s network.
Apple has been evaluating a portion of the network upgrade already accessible to its engineers for testing purposes and is genuinely impressed with its speed. A person familiar with the situation commented that Apple iPhone engineers have “never gotten pages to load as fast as they were loading on the new routers.”
The previous iPhone releases all featured upgrades before the release of the 2G EDGE upgrade and the HSPA upgrade before the iPhone 3G last year. Will AT&T be able to complete this speed increase before the third generation iPhone is released?
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