Like death and taxes, the 3G carrier bandwidth issue–especially with AT&T and the iPhone–has again raised its ugly little head. Or, perhaps, the issue of high latency GSM 3G networks never went away.
Last August, 2008, I recorded a podcast on MobileBeyond called “U.S. SmartPhone Data Usage Growth: The Catch-22 of Mobile Data Performance Podcast” in which I pointed out the mobile carrier’s quandary: “We must sell data plans and release bandwidth-sucking smartphones, but…our network isn’t ready for the onslaught.”
The problem is still with us…and for some time to come.
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