by Rachel Brodsky

Any quick glance around the MUNI demonstrates a high abundance of iPhones littering San Francisco. And if simply looking around doesn't prove it, then industry data alone should be more than enough to display our dependence on Apple Smartphones. But let's face it: San Francisco sucks at AT&T 3G coverage. Calls are consistently dropped, and if they're not dropping, they're not going through at all. And Luke Wilson's flimsy promises in AT&T commercials don't do much to help, either (if anything, they just invoke pity for the aging, increasingly squishy Wes Anderson protege).

According to the Chronicle, AT&T has stated that network usage expanded as much as 5,000 percent in the last three years. As a result, AT&T's unlimited data plan as it currently stands may soon be a defunct model. AT&T has been hinting at the possibility of a re-worked pricing tier (which means higher prices according to 3G use), designed to help make extra space in their bloated network.