AT&T 3G MicroCell Installed
Today is a special day at RustyBrick. We now have an AT&T 3G MicroCell installed at the office. That means that we all have 5 bars now, well - Verizon Wireless users always had five bars, but now all RB iPhone users have five bars now.
Yes, we had to pay the $150 for the device, but consider is a company perk. I do agree that AT&T should give this to all their customers for free, but I will not wait for AT&T to wake up and do that. So I paid the $150 for the office.
I called the local AT&T store this morning to find out if they have them in stock, since they are now available in this area (as of Monday). They had them in stock, so I ran over there, paid for it and came back here. After 90 minutes of letting the device activate, we all saw the "AT&T" at the top left of the iPhone replaced by "AT&T M-Cell." We all also noticed 5 full bars! So we are now running off this MicroCell. We will test it out over the next 30 days and see if it pays to keep it, but I believe we will keep it.
As soon as the RBers saw five bars, they broke out in loud cheers. I am not kidding.
Here are pictures of the phone with the new AT&T symbol:
Here are pictures of the MicroCell in our network closet:
Published May 18, 2010 by:
Barry
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry is also the founder of the Search Engine Roundtable and the News Editor of Search Engine Land. He is well known & respected for his expertise in the search marketing industry. Barry graduated from the City University of New York and lives with his family in the NYC region.
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13 COMMENTS
posted by Barry Schwartz on: May 25, 2010 02:14pm
Since then, we haven't had any more issues. Since 3 days ago.
posted by Barry Schwartz on: May 18, 2010 04:27pm
Isn't this the best company in the world?
posted by Alex Fierro on: May 18, 2010 04:10pm
Cancel health insurance, use money to buy us personal M-Cells!
posted by Barry Schwartz on: May 18, 2010 05:10pm
FYI, it also seems to stock that annoying 3G static noise.
posted by Viral Gastroenteritis on: May 18, 2010 05:09pm
I'll keep my health insurance, thank you very much.
posted by Barry Schwartz on: May 18, 2010 08:39pm
At about 4:30pm it died. All our phones say "searching..." I am on with AT&T for now 10+ minutes and they are trying to figure out what is wrong.
posted by Barry Schwartz on: May 18, 2010 08:50pm
After rebooting, we are back. It took about 20 minutes.
posted by Joe Christopher on: May 21, 2010 03:40pm
Has it been solid since? Any other issues?
posted by Barry Schwartz on: May 21, 2010 07:06pm
It has not been solid since. We have about 8 iPhones here and I think after the 6th iPhone gets on this device (not talking, just in range of the microcell) it sporadically has issues and jumps off the AT&T M-Cell network and onto AT&T network or just goes on "searching..."
posted by Benjamin Oakes on: May 29, 2010 04:52am
Wow, I didn't know anything like this even existed. It's a really cool idea, but it's sad that they offer them in a way...
posted by Barry Schwartz on: May 31, 2010 05:44pm
There was an outage over the weekend. I rebooted the device this morning and it worked. Now it is out again, 6 hours later. I guess I have to reboot it again.
posted by Barry Schwartz on: Jun 1, 2010 12:42pm
Another outage at 8:40am (EST) on June 1, 2010. Ugh!
posted by Gravyplaya on: Jul 2, 2010 08:28pm
I have the same exact problem. sometimes call take forever to connect and disconnect. I have a 3GS and I have the stuttering problem during calls also. Just know your not the only ones. Rebooting it makes no difference, if its gonna go out its gonna go out.. What sucks for me more is I also have ATT-Uverse for a net connection. Its all on their network and it still isnt working.. PS: I do see from the picture that you have yours mounted on top of 2 UPS's. Moving it closer to its own location away from that interference will improve your situation IMO. I have mine mounted on top of my entertainment center, in my living room, all by itself.