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AT&T Not Ready to Market 'Enhanced Backhaul'

May 5, 2011, 5:51 PM by Eric M. Zeman
updated May 5, 2011, 6:30 PM

Speaking to Phone Scoop today at an event in New York City, AT&T spokesperson Seth Bloom confirmed that the network operator is not yet ready to market where it offers "enhanced backhaul" services. As AT&T moves forward in building out its HSPA+ network, one of the sticking points of getting the best possible speeds is that the cell site users connect to needs to have enhanced backhaul. The cell sites with enhanced backhaul have higher throughput than non-enhanced cell sites. Bloom explained that if customers drill down far enough into the coverage maps of specific metro areas, they may be able to see a cell site-by-cell site designation of areas that have enhanced backhaul, but the vast majority of cell sites have yet to be upgraded with the faster equipment. Bloom said that AT&T is going to be aggressively building its enhanced backhaul systems out this year, and expects to have the majority of its HSPA+ sites "enhanced" by the close of 2011. For now, however, AT&T is not planning to market or clearly define where its fastest "4G" network is available. Bottom line, AT&T hasn't defined the criteria (a.k.a., enhanced backhaul cell density) by which it will refer to a given market as completely covered with enhanced backhaul. It will be up to customers to manually seek out the best coverage. By way of comparison, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless go out of their way to announce where their best service is available.

source: AT&T

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island-guy

May 6, 2011, 1:50 PM

Smell a class action brewing

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Joshmo

why?

That would require AT&T doing something that warranted a class action lawsuit.

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Azeron

May 5, 2011, 6:10 PM

Well...

...it's not as though increasing speeds is high on its priority list. Why should it be? Things are going splendidly as it is. Why fix what isn't broken?

netboy

yeah, why bother to increase speeds output. just put "4G" on phones to mislead people, just like those as-seen-on-tv ads!
att coverage map shows i have 4G coverage in bayarea CA, but speedtest on inspire FAKE 4G is the same as any other 3G phones!

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andy2373

Azeron said:
...it's not as though increasing speeds is high on its priority list. Why should it be? Things are going splendidly as it is. Why fix what isn't broken?

Your kidding, right?
ATT's data experience suck...
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