According to a recent AP report, AT&T is claiming that a software defect in its network is limiting data uploads from the phone in some areas.
For a device that was promising significantly faster upload times for content such as images and video that’s a bad problem to be dealing with right after the product’s launch.
Apple Inc.'s new iPhone 4 went on sale in the U.S. and a few other countries just weeks ago but the company has acknowledged that holding the phone in a certain way might reduce its wireless performance, and that all iPhones show the wrong signal strength in some situations.
Dallas-based AT&T recently added that a software glitch in network equipment made by Alcatel-Lucent is to blame for limiting the upload speeds of the iPhone 4. AT&T did state this week that a fix is in the works.
The iPhone 4 is the first phone designed to take full advantage of an upload-speeding technology that AT&T put in place in 2008. Both Apple and AT&T had stated the new iPhone was capable of uploads that are 10 times faster than those of the previous iPhone model.
But where the network is affected by the software glitch, some users report the new phone is getting upload speeds limited to 100 kilobits per second, somewhat lower than the speeds usually achieved with the previous iPhone model.
