AT&T kicks it into overdrive, rolls out 7.2Mbps everywhere -- but there's a catch

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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadgetmobile.com/media/2009/05/att-72-sm.jpgAT&T was quick to steal a smidge of T-Mobile's thunder (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/t-mobile-takes-entire-3g-network-to-7-2mbps/) today with the announcement at an investor's conference that has sped up its 7.2Mbps HSPA software upgrade to all 3G cell sites, moving up the original deadline (http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/27/atandt-announces-7-2mbps-hspa-rollout-plans/) of 2011. Here's the thing, though: they didn't really move up the 2011 date because 7.2Mbps-capable cells don't do much good without a wide-enough pipe to feed them on the back end. That's the other part of AT&T's one-two punch for boosting network speeds, and that part won't be wrapped up for a while yet. The company says that it expects "the majority" of the mobile data it handles to operate over its upgraded back end by the tail end of this year -- and it's already started the upgrades in Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, and Miami -- but the reality here is that we probably won't be blazing anywhere near the theoretical max throughput for a little while yet.AT&T kicks it into overdrive, rolls out 7.2Mbps everywhere -- but there's a catch (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/atandt-kicks-it-into-overdrive-rolls-out-7-2mbps-everywhere-bu/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).


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