Translation: "We tried to get away with throttling your speeds, but you caught us."

This is interesting. I can at least confirm that AT&T does use Alcatel hardware in the northeast (NY) from working at a previous company providing EF&I for the telcos. My uploads/downloads for about the past two weeks have been terribly slow (such as this page, even). I had just assumed it was added congestion from iPhone4 users or AT&T trying to beef up it's network.

AT&T is quickly running out of fingers with which to point.

350+ people posting about this on Mac Rumors across 30+ markets and it only affected 2% of their customer base? Yet another issue blown out of proportion.


PS: I really wonder who these people are in real life that don't think companies ever make a mistake, that it's meticulously planned malevolence on par with comic book evil geniuses.

This is not a matter of having tested the iPhone - and if there is a small subset of hardware that on the provider end of the link that is not handling 3G for ALL 3G devices the way that it is supposed to then that device needs to be fixed or replaced. I don't see this as finger pointing - but root cause analysis and identifying the problem plainly and openly. Also it would seem that iDevice users are the most demanding and or likely to notice and complain when the service is not what it is supposed to be. I will reserve my Kudos to AT&T for fixing this one until it is actually fixed.

If you would prefer that AT&T and their partners continue to claim there is no problem so that you can continue to spout off about how they are denying any problems then don't spout off about how they are admitting the problem - can't have it both ways.

it makes sense to me... why in gods name would AT&T throttle the connection speeds on purpose. the faster the network goes, the faster the customer uses up their $25 data plan...

You're uploading it wrong.