With an exemplary track record of wireless network load planning like AT&T's, it's important to listen to what they believe will happen with future products. Tucked into yesterday's investor meeting, AT&T's CEO mentioned that he didn't expect much 3G traffic from the 10-inch screen media device with Youtube and other network-heavy applications:
AT&T Inc expects users of Apple Inc's iPad to connect to the Internet mostly using short-range Wi-Fi networks rather than AT&T's cellular network, the chief executive of AT&T said on Tuesday. While AT&T has agreed to provide wireless connections to the iPad tablet computer, Randall Stephenson said he does not expect the device to result in many new service subscriptions for AT&T as consumers will instead use Wi-Fi or prepaid services, where they do not subscribe to a service contract. "My expectation is that there's no
