New York City’s long-suffering AT&T customers should be seeing some relief, according to the US carrier. A bump to 7.2Mbps HSPA at all mobile sites across all five boroughs should mean a 47 per cent improvement in voice call quality. So… has it?
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Sure, the ghost special effects somehow have gotten worse in the last 20 years, but it’s pretty much impossible to not be charmed by the Ghostbusters returning to the New York Public Library.
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Why I take the subway: This is what NYC traffic congestion looks like, charted by the GPS units built into cabs. The real surprise is that average travel speeds remain a crushingly slow 7mph (11km/h), even when everybody’s at work.
