Anyone else in San Francisco notice a big change in 3G service Friday?

[oban14]

I've got plenty of complaints about AT&T/iPhone data connectivity, but my office was not one of them. With Verizon or AT&T, I would pretty much waver between searching for network/no connection, and having 1 bar. Useless in my building, but I accepted it... it was the other areas around the city I had a problem with.

Friday I found I had full 3G bars sitting in my office. This has never happened, or anything even close to it. I figured my iphone had frozen so I restarted it. Same thing. It was no where near up to "3G five bars" speed but it did OK and certainly better than it had before, though it timed out a bit.

Anyway, my point is that something very significant changed with AT&T service on Friday. Did anyone else see it?

 

[thelatinist]

I'm not in San Francisco, but my first guess would be that AT&T activated a new tower near you. Congratulations!

 

[velvetelvis]

i think att is switching over bandwidths. it started in nyc, sf, and somewhere else. that could be responsible for your better service.

 

[oban14]

i think att is switching over bandwidths. it started in nyc, sf, and somewhere else. that could be responsible for your better service.

I did google, and apparently SF is getting the same treatment as NYC. What was interesting is that the "full 3G" was much slower than normal "full 3G" but I've been reading about network congestion anyway... or maybe they aren't done actually deploying it, just the signal is there now.

 

[VeNoMiZeD]

I did google, and apparently SF is getting the same treatment as NYC. What was interesting is that the "full 3G" was much slower than normal "full 3G" but I've been reading about network congestion anyway... or maybe they aren't done actually deploying it, just the signal is there now.

I was complaining a few weeks back on here that my gym had 3G since it first came out. But since late June and until last week it was on edge. Now it's back on 3G and a lot stronger too. This is around the 24 Hour Fitness by Van Ness and Post area. They've must have been doing something on the towers.

 

[jav6454]

Towers being upgraded via software and new hardware. Also, new lines to the towers to give them new bandwidth strength. That and the more open 850MHz band they are deploying should be responsible for your better service.