AT&T Says It Schooled Apple on iPhone Networking

AT&T has taken a lot of heat from iPhone customers complaining about network performance, but the carrier insinuated in an article today that Apple was partly at fault as well.

AT&T executives visited Apple last year to provide Apple engineers a “crash course” in wireless networking to reduce the load that iPhones were putting out on the network, said John Donovan, AT&T’s chief technology officer, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. As a result, Apple tweaked its iPhones to communicate with AT&T’s towers and mitigate network overload, according to Donovan.

“They’re well past networking 101, 201 or ...

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