Cellular operators seem to have discovered a new cash cow: the iPhone (and for those who don’t carry it, a variety of smartphones and netbooks all to be given away for free or at low cost). Coupled with cheaper data subscriptions, it seems like a fiesta for gadget freaks like us until we find out that telcos like AT&T still use ancient DSL/copper networks as backhaul for many of their cellular base stations and worse, given constraints in the equity and debt markets (plus the NIMBY attitudes of many communities), they’re not rushing to upgrade the networks to ad capacity.
Read The coming 3G network Armageddon.
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