Blackberry Bold is going strong in 13 countries, but still not in the US. Ask why? AT&T is too busy fullfilling bandwidth requirements for the iPhone 3G, such that it cannot add the additional load of the Blackberry Bold – that uses the same 3G network that the iPhone is currently using.
Apparently the AT&T network is too busy with the amount of Bandwidth the millions of iPhone 3G are extracting from it.
‘AT&T can run 20 Blackberries for each iPhone 3G, as the iPhone 3G “lacks the data compression technology that is a hallmark of Blackberry devices,” and that AT&T could have to spend up to $1 billion to bring its 3G network up-to-speed” [ZDnet]
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