{"id":8183,"date":"2009-09-09T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/att_moves_to_4g_in_miami_and_elsewhere.html"},"modified":"2009-09-09T13:30:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T13:30:10","slug":"att-moves-to-4g-in-miami-and-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/att-moves-to-4g-in-miami-and-elsewhere.html","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T Moves to 4G in Miami and Elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I travel a great deal and have had a chance to test AT&amp;T&#8217;s wireless<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline;\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;\" class=\"mt-image-right\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/young-guy-on-cell-phone.jpg\" alt=\"young-guy-on-cell-phone.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>service in areas such as Dallas, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Los Angeles, San Francisco and others. What I have noticed is the service is improving and aside from occasional glitches, surfing the web on an Apple iPhone 3Gs is a more pleasant experience. I don&#8217;t think it approaches Verizon Wireless yet but then again, VZW doesn&#8217;t have to deal with the onslaught of wireless data requests generated from legions of iPhone users. AT&amp;T has an opportunity of a lifetime to upgrade its network before it loses iPhone exclusivity (assuming it does).<\/p>\n<p>To say the company is rushing to improve its service would be an understatement &#8211; in fact it is <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/news\/ap\/20090909\/ap_on_hi_te\/us_tec_techbit_at_t3g\">doubling<\/a> its data speed through the use of HSPA in six cities &#8212; Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami and Charlotte. This is great news as the next <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itexpo.com\/\">ITEXPO<\/a> and &#8211; East 2010 and the collocated <a href=\"http:\/\/4g-wirelessevolution.tmcnet.com\/conference\/east-10\/default.htm\">4G Wireless Evolution<\/a> will take place in Miami this January and these upgrades should be in place by year&#8217;s end. I am looking forward to testing the service out then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I travel a great deal and have had a chance to test AT&amp;T&#8217;s wireless service in areas such as Dallas, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Los Angeles, San Francisco and others. What I have noticed is the service is improving and aside from occasional glitches, surfing the web on an Apple iPhone 3Gs is a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,1680,158,168,170,171,180,181,172,1,182,160,196,163,1674,212,199,197,188,1672,189,203,211,118,177,174,191,205,175,1675],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}