Mark the Spot: Tell AT&T where the iPhone sucks

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12 pointsnovicecoder3 comments

This is completely unnecessary. AT&T already has a very good idea where calls are dropped by looking through their logfiles. Plus, these logfiles encompass every phone, not just the iPhone. Plus, these logfiles reach back to 10+ years.

And, 1 incident amounts to nothing. As a cell network, you want lots and lots of data before you add a new tower. The iPhone app is unlikely to give you that data. But your logfile give it to you, and have for many years already.

This is like a city adding push buttons at signaled pedestrian crossings without connecting them: a band-aid, created to make them look active witout fixing anything.

Perhaps the value is that AT&T can be shamed into fixing its network by publishing info on chronically bad areas. Of course they know where they have issues, but there's no way to show the public how inattentive they're being without independent data.

This is a cool idea--crowdsourcing weak spots. So if you are disconnected, how does the iphone send this info off? Presumably stores it for later?

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