phideltacity

I have recently switched phone carrier on my iPhone. This is possible, because I have bought an unlocked iPhone. I have switched from a second rate carrier, that has an contract with Apple for the iPhone to a first rate carrier that does not. There is a disadvantage to this. For example I no longer have visual voicemail. But there are some advantages as well. Some of them I did not expect.
For one thing, I have much better reception. I have not had a dropped call since switching something that, though infrequent, would happen on a regular base with my previous carrier. One consequence of this is that I get much better data speeds than I have ever had; another is that the voice quality is much better. All of this was expected, knowing that my new carrier has a much better network coverage.
The consequence that was not expected, at least not by me, is that my battery life increased dramatically! Dramatically to me means that it increased by roughly 1/3. Now after noticing, it is easily explained. After all, less power needs to be consumed to maintain a network connection. But at first seemed to be a miracle.
Having realized the effect that the network quality has on the iPhone performance, I am beginning to understand the frustration felt by many from having to use AT&T, which is definitely a second rate carrier. It also makes me question Apple’s credo of aiming for the best user experience. What Apple has really accomplished instead is a mediocre to bad user experience by using a second rate carrier.
To me that means that Apple had better made one awesome deal with these carriers. Otherwise this is just one bad way to go, at least for iPhone customers.
Whatever the deal they did make. I am one happy iPhone customer. Happier now though that I have a carrier that actually has a quality network.