Report: AT&T helped Apple with iPhone issues

From CNET News.com: AT&T executives, apparently feeling the heat of iPhone users' complaints about poor service, have reportedly been working with Apple to resolve the issues.

Since Apple's iPhone launched exclusively on AT&T's network more than two years ago, customers have been complaining about dropped calls and slow data connections, especially those in urban areas such as New York and San Francisco. Now, as rumors circulate that an iPhone is in the works that would be capable of running on Verizon Wireless--AT&T's biggest competitor--AT&T is reportedly schooling Apple on improving network communication.

AT&T executives, who had long denied there was a problem with their network, flew to Apple's campus last year to assure Apple CEO Steve Jobs that they were working to resolve the issues and instruct Apple handset designers on wireless networking, Chief Technology Officer John Donovan told the Wall Street Journal.

Apple reconfigured how the phones communicate with AT&T's cell towers, eventually reducing the load on the phones place on the networks, the Journal reported.

"They're well past networking 101, 201 or 301," said Donovan told the Journal, adding that Apple designers were now "in a Master's class."

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