1FPS|by David Chartier

The clamoring for a 3G iPhone to arrive in June with Apple’s release of third-party installable software is nearly deafening, so I figured I’d look into exactly where 3G is up and running here in the US. It isn’t nearly as wide-spread as EDGE (the iPhone’s current data network besides WiFi), and I suspect a good portion of feature-lusters who are calling for this hardware upgrade may not even be able to take advantage of it (yet).

AT&T maintains an interactive map detailing 3G coverage, broken down by state and city. You can toggle 3G’s visibility on the map to get a better idea of where it is and isn’t. I suspect this map is fairly up-to-date as I was told late last summer that Denver was getting 3G in October, and that coverage is listed on this map.

As I understand it, 3G phones can still fall back on EDGE when 3G is unavailable, so if you aren’t a lucky winner of the AT&T 3G Lottery, you aren’t dead in the water.