{"id":4142,"date":"2011-01-21T10:55:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T18:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=4142"},"modified":"2011-01-21T15:18:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T23:18:38","slug":"att-microcell-towers-7-5-of-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/att-microcell-towers-7-5-of-users\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&T offer microcell towers to ONLY 7.5% of users"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>AT&T knows they have a coverage problem, know they can solve it; yet still are going to the solution kicking and screaming. If you remember, you could get a micro cell tower<\/a> for $199 (used to be $150 ($20 a month more for unlimited) that uses YOUR internet connection to solve a AT&T issue.\u00a0 Via Engadget<\/a>: Quietly; they have been offering free towers (no word on still paying for unlimited) for select customers.\u00a0 Well now they are offering free towers to a select group of 7.5% of users with in building reception issues AND you still need to have or extent your contract by a year!\u00a0 Sigh. This is not going to help the rush to Verizon (for those that really want an iphone) and I guess AT&T figures there is no way to really fight this.\u00a0 There only hope is to try to keep high value customers who are on the edge of service from jumping; but to put this offer 2 weeks before the Verizon release does not make much sense because those who have been experiencing dropped calls have probably made up there minds to leave; and to do something like this\u00a0 to select customers; will not make people think twice about not leaving.<\/p>\n

Its a shame really; phone users like me in San Francisco, or New York or other places where there is suppose to be good coverage and 3G would feel the pain a bit less if we could make sure one or key place (like at work or home) was reliable for coverage, I think we could have lived with dropped calls going from place to place.\u00a0 But that does seem to be happening anytime soon.<\/p>\n

Update: I got a tweet for a friend saying they have this and they are STILL dropping calls.\u00a0 I’ll write that over the weekend.<\/p>\n

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