Sling Media Didn’t Change iPhone Version of Sling Player for AT&T [Did AT&T Lie About the Reasons for Accepting Sling Player’s 3G Video Streaming for the iPhone?]

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Some disturbing news are coming in a day after AT&T officially announced that Sling Player can now stream videos over 3G to iPhone owners. It looks like Sling Media is denying some of the official statements of AT&T’s CEO Ralph de la Vega which we showed you yesterday here on TFTS.

According to Sling Media, Sling Player hasn’t suffered any changes. In fact Sling Player is still the same application that it was back in the day when AT&T was not willing to allow it to stream video content over its precious 3G network.

So who are we to believe? On one side Ralph de la Vega said that “Sling Media was willing to work with [them] to revise the app to make it more bandwidth sensitive” but on the other hand Sling Media’s representative John Santoro said that “[they] didn’t change anything… AT&T never discussed any specific requirements with [them].

What’s even stranger is the fact that the optimization code which AT&T talks about in the press release has been there since the beginning which means that AT&T could have approved the 3G version of Sling Player a long while ago. It will be really interesting to see how AT&T will respond to all these statements since everything is making them look pretty bad.

We’re also wondering how AT&T’s network will handle all those subscribers looking to stream all sorts of videos over 3G using Sling Player. After all AT&T has had to face quite a lot of complaints coming from its iPhone customers regarding its 3G network’s dependability and we’re yet to see the company come up with better solutions that won’t raise questions anymore. Sure AT&T might offer you superior transfer speeds than others and let you browse the Internet while you’re making calls, but its subscribers in various large metropolitan areas are not all that happy all that time with their carrier.