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AT&T admits it was ill-prepared for iPhone

AT&T admits it was ill-prepared for iPhone

AT&T has just finished submitting its “Can haz T-Mobile?” request to the FCC, and it’s nothing if not an interesting read. Well, nothing apart from long, dry, and packed with jargon. As a sort of companion piece to the heavily-redacted filing, AT&T has also released a shorter version for the average Joe who wants to know what all the commotion is about.

In the press release, AT&T owns up to something its customers and critics have been saying for quite some time: it simply wasn’t prepared to deal with the demands of iPhone users. AT&T states that a smartphone pumps 24 times the data of a traditional mobile phone. And the iPhone and iPad are even more of a strain, says AT&T, pushing the company’s data usage in 2010 to a level 8,000% higher than it was in 2007 prior to the launch of its iPhone exclusive.

The presser wraps up the passage about smartphone data by saying that AT&T faces “network capacity constraints more severe than those of any other wireless provider.”

Once you cut through all the flowery language and justifications, you can pretty well summarize the T-Mobile acquisition request as “LOL, oversold our capacity big time. Can we Borg this competitor so we can have theirs, too?”

Oh, and that sound you hear in the background? It’s every other wireless carrier in the U.S. playing a lament on a collection of the world’s smallest violins.

[Thanks: http://www.geek.com]

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