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		<title>AT&amp;T: the secret meaning of 3G</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(warning &#8211; this is a rant) Once again when I thought it wasn&#8217;t possible, AT&#38;T reached yet another nadir in its inability to provide a service to iPhone users.  Now they admit it. Rather than blog about what laughably AT&#38;T tries to pass as service, I&#8217;ve come up with the real secret meaning of AT&#38;T&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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<p>Once again when I thought it wasn&#8217;t possible, AT&amp;T reached yet another nadir in its inability to provide a service to iPhone users.  Now they <a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/09/03/bandwidth_guzzling_iphone_called_hummer_of_cellphones.html" target="_blank">admit</a> it.</p>
<p>Rather than blog about what laughably AT&amp;T tries to pass as service, I&#8217;ve come up with the real secret meaning of AT&amp;T&#8217;s 3G.</p>
<p>3G Stands for the 3 Ghosts:</p>
<p>1. the ghost of network speed (let&#8217;s just call that glacial)</p>
<p>2. the ghost of network reliability (actually the network reliably drops calls, has multiple dead spots, and uncanny text/voice message delays)</p>
<p>3. the ghost of &#8220;we <a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/09/04/att_defends_its_iphone_network_via_youtube_outreach.html" target="_blank">care</a> and we are doing something about it&#8221; (let&#8217;s call this one gullibility)</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been an AT&amp;T customer since 1996 but I plan to switch to Verizon once the <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2009/04/27/apple-and-verizon-in-iphone-negotiations-for-2010/" target="_blank">exclusive deal</a> with AT&amp;T is over.</p>
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