In light of recent buzz that the iPhone 4 comes to Verizon this week, they’ve made changes to their user policy to throttle heavy data users.
From what I’ve managed to read until now, AT&T has been the sole provider of iPhone 4 service in the US and it shows. Customer complaints on reliability and poor reception have been common for the network. Verizon will now carry the iPhone 4 on their networks, while at the same time unveiling a plan to throttle the 5% “heavy data users” so that the other 95% can enjoy their service without being slowed down.
I’m trying to think back to when the iPhone 4 was announced in Canada to also be available through Bell/Telus, not only Rogers. Remembering that Rogers is the THE giant in Canada when it came to service. It was more of a competitive release as opposed to a solution to a bogged down network. In the US, the Verizon iPhone 4 is being coined “the saviour” for reception woes.
I’m guessing that someone in their engineering department gave them the heads up that even though they may be the ‘better choice’ right now for reception in the US, once the iPhone drops, it’s going to be a whole different story.
We’ll see.
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