Comments on: AT&T 3G in Anchorage Alaska

By: Jouten

Jouten — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:02:57 +0000

3G just lit up on our phones here in Juneau. I live in West Juneau and my co-worker’s iPhone lit up 3G as well and she lives in the Valley…

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:06:30 +0000

My iPhone 3G has been switching between EDGE and 3G for a while today over on Fort Wainwright. This is the first time I have seen 3G on my phone up here. I keep hoping it will stick and I will never see that “E” again.

By: Ken Woods

Ken Woods — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:50:44 +0000

3G is up and running in Fairbanks as of 12/17/09

By: Czar

Czar — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:42 +0000

Where is 3G for Fairbanks, Juneau and the rest of Alaska! AT&T service sucks bigtime outside of Anchorage and the Valley.

By: Terr

Terr — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:01:52 +0000

If you live outside of Southcentral Alaska don’t purchase an iPhone unless you can get a first generation off of eBay. An iPhone 3GS would be as worthless as a 3G at this point in these areas. You can always go to ACS for 3G which it has had for sometime – besides its much better than ATT in terms of roaming into Canada.

When you get outside, complain to Apple when you visit an Applestore. ATT isn’t satisfying Apple in terms of its slow adoption of technologies such as MMS and tethering.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sun, 31 May 2009 04:47:56 +0000

Matthew, I’ve been experiencing problems where the signal will bounce back and forth between EDGE and 3G, and I live 4900 feet from the Government Hill tower.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 28 May 2009 05:20:33 +0000

Right now my phone says 3g but it doesn’t connect to anything. This same time last night it worked great. Anyone else have this problem?

By: James

James — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:35:49 +0000

I clocked 3G in midtown @ 1.5mbps download and and upload speed of 102kbps. I have also experienced some missed calls and interruption of service during the upgrade. During peak times clocked download speed has been as low as 245 kbps.

By: Lainie

Lainie — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:07:54 +0000

does anyone know if it is available in eagle river? too or just in Anchorage?

By: Tim B.

Tim B. — Wed, 27 May 2009 06:51:59 +0000

Just tested the speed on the iphone and here is what I got.

1708 kb/s download average
208 kb/s upload average
Latency 248 ms

That’s faster than what I’m getting with Clearwire.

I got that over on the East side (Muldoon Area).