March 14, 2004

AT&T Wireless Phones Obsolete

Engadget goes into detail about how AT&T Wireless is pushing some of their customers to replace their phones with obsolete models due to vagaries of the GSM network. An army of subscribers who could only use half the airwaves AT&T owns was making AT&T’s reputation for poor reception and coverage even worse. To rectify the situation, AT&T Wireless recently started quietly offering free replacement phones for anyone using a phone that isn’t compatible with the 850 MHz network. Read [via Engadget]