Comment Re:Question. (Score 1) 572
The issue is that the network is oversold to the point of instability, and it seems to be affecting their entire network.
I've had Cingular/AT&T for 5 years now, and I never had any noticeable calling problems up until this year. Over the past 3 months I've had numerous dropped calls and bad reception problems while talking on the phone (handfree, yes this is legal in my state) on the way home from work. This is the same route I've been driving for all 5 years.
I wouldn't be too surprised to have problems in places I've never tried before, but in the same places I've always used my phone in? There's only a few possible causes there.. Overload, hardware failure, and botched reconfiguration are what pop to my mind. Given that we know bandwidth use is rising, and AT&T is cutting back on large equipment purchases, I strongly suspect overload.