The dark side of GDC: Spotty iPhone service(0)
AT&T was excoriated earlier this month by the technorati attending the South By Southwest conference in Austin. It seems with all the geeks attending the confab with their iPhones, the carrier’s network was overloaded. Attendees reportedly couldn’t access the Web, send text messages or even place phone calls.
The giant carrier did address the problems — two days after the conference started — by turning up the bandwidth on its existing towers.
One might think that the company would learn its lesson; i.e., a critical mass of geeks in one area at one time yields network overload. But apparently not.
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