AT&T CTO:"AT&T recently faced a shortage of the components needed to improve its network"

  

John Donovan, AT&T Chief Technology Officer, participated yesterday at VentureBeat’s MobileBeat 2010 conference in San Francisco, and was asked about the recent quality issues AT&T is facing in its mobile broadband service.

See Anthony Ha's coverage of the presentation and Q&A by "AT&T CTO: ‘We will move heaven and Earth’ to improve our network" - here.

Donovan's reasons for AT&T quality issues:  "With a flood of new chipsets, phones, and applications, the traditional device testing and rollout methods have “broken down.” (i.e. the products are bad) and "AT&T recently faced a shortage of the components needed to improve its network" (hopefully a $19B investment will help - here)

"Donovan broke down mobile data usage into three phases — we’re still in phase one (see AT&T CTO: Traffic has Grown 5,000% in 3 Years - here), which is the “traditional data world,” and we will soon enter phase two, which Donovan described as “application readiness,” followed by phase three in 2014. By that point, Donovan predicted, we will see point-to-point video, and the amount of data usage in 2008 will basically round down to zero in comparison, he said."

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