AT&T completes New York City 3G network upgrade

By on Jun 28, 2010 at 3:58 PM
General June 28, 2010

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After away slaving for many months, AT&T announced today that it has completed its 3G network upgrades in the New York City region. Now a 7.2Mbps network that relies heavily on the urban-friendly 850MHz band, AT&T says that the reworked network should deliver “improved 3G wireless voice and data connectivity and performance, especially during peak hours.” To support these claims, AT&T notes that call quality has improved 47%, while data speeds have gone up 25%. So tell us, AT&T users in NYC. Have things improved, or are things still as bad as they ever were?

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  • F Critchlow

    I’ve never really had a problem with my iPhone service with AT&T, except for the when shopping during the Christmas holiday in a nearby crowed county mall. I keep hearing of complains from technical journalist, but my experience does not match what they are saying.

  • JJFNIGHTS80

    I don’t really care bout this upgrade. I get perfectly good single with my AT&T phone. I’m just getting sick and tired of these ugly ANDROID phones AT&T is getting and still have yet to deliver us AT&T consumers GOOD QUALITY HARDWARE PHONES.

  • Kg

    No dropped calls on my iPhone 4 from Brooklyn

    • paugi

      I second that iPhone 4 in BK is fantastic.

      • iMiiTH

        Yes, because iPhone 4′s are only good in Brooklyn.

      • Jon

        Hey wake up……they are talking about 3G speed……still is really badddddddddddddd……They should give me a cash back credit for offer edge with the 3G icon

  • Lime

    NuShrike AT&Ts network is all fiber. Copper. Lol

  • dittrimd

    I have never had a problem with the AT&T network in NYC or the surrounding areas of New England. My iPhone 3G always worked as good or better than my work Sprint phone and my iPhone 4 has been even better the past few days. I have family and friends on Verizon and T-Mobile and it seems to be a wash. We all have pretty good coverage but somtetimes I have signal when they don’t and vice versa. Same for dropped calls, we all get them everyonce in a while. I have never understood the AT&T bashing going on around the internet.

  • nyguy

    Even with this upgrade those of us with middle of the block apartments still have horrid reception. I was forced to use my friends blackberry storm2 to call my girlfriend because my iPhone 4 couldn’t hold a signal. Not about to start the blackberry/iphone war- just comparing signals. I haven’t seen anything noticeable by ways of upgrades

  • http://tomburka.com Tombo

    I just upgraded to an iPhone 4 after sticking with the old original iPhone and the Edge network and I’m shocked at how bad 3G data reception is. In Manhattan, data transmission is better when I turn 3G OFF. Voice quality is much improved — although I don’t know how much of that is due to improvements in iPhone circuitry. When I use 3G, I very often get a “data transmission timed out”. Totally useless.

    I imagine this may be because AT&T upgrades its 3G network in NYC to handle the load which occurred last year or so when the iPhone 3G came out — not anticipating the load from sales of the iPhone 4.

    I hate AT&T. I love the iPhone, but so many of the things I use it for are borked because AT&T’s network is completely unreliable and so poorly managed.

    Would you pay for a car that only moved forward half of the time? I think there should be a class action suit. I’m paying for data service that doesn’t exist.

    • Jon

      Same here 220kbps here in queens ny. Sometimes at 2am in the morning go up to 1200 kbps. So you be the judge

    • cybergrace

      Thank you. I have an original iPhone and my contract expired. I have terrible reception all over Manhattan (where I live and work). Interesting that if one gets a 3G or iPhone 4 service is supposed to be better. However, now I can’t trust AT&T at all. I hope my old iPhone holds out until Verizon becomes a provider. I just can’t decide what to do in case my phone dies before that time…

      Does anyone have suggestions for a cheap cell phone with month-to-month contracts that works in NYC? Thanks.

  • RJ

    just did a recent speed test from jersey city where my signal is usually just as bad as anywhere in manhattan, and it registered 1166kbps, signal is remaining at a steady 4-5 bars, and so far no dropped calls. only time will tell

  • http://alghienkad06.student.ipb.ac.id thea

    nice

  • Steve

    I purchased the ipad and the 3G service doesn’t exist where I live and the E service is slower than dialup.
    I am stuck until ATT has the 3 G service that Verizon has in this area.

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