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Verizon vs. At&T Feud

  • j_crazy
    If/when Verizon gets the Iphone their network will have as many dropped calls as ATT, it has to do with the amount of data being downloaded over the network which Spiked when the Iphone launched.

    as for the ads, Verizon is winning big at the moment.
  • dlazz
    I've had ATT for five or six years...I've probably had two or three legitimate "dropped" calls, and those were simply due to a weak signal.

    The only other "issue" I've run into is trying to call someone after an OSU home game (which is an obvious capacity issue, so I'm not going to complain about that)
  • Fab1b
    [quotehttp://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/108491/att-the-most-hated'j_crazy' pid='131721' dateline='1262618991']
    If/when Verizon gets the Iphone their network will have as many dropped calls as ATT, it has to do with the amount of data being downloaded over the network which Spiked when the Iphone launched.

    as for the ads, Verizon is winning big at the moment.
    [/quote]

    Recent article from cnn money saying just that:
    http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/108491/att-the-most-hated
  • j_crazy
    I'm good.
  • Jawbreaker
    sherm03 wrote: The LTE/WiMax debate has nothing to do with GSM and CDMA. LTE and WiMax are 4g technologies designed to move DATA and not voice. So the CDMA/GSM debate will still be relevant.
    CMDA and GSM won't go away in the near future but once they figure out a standard for voice over LTE, the carriers will move to all LTE for voice and data.
    UA5straightin2008 wrote: Verizon will have the iphone by the end of 2010
    I would love to know where you got that nugget of information. I kept on hearing people say the iPhone will come to VZW in 2009 and that didn't happen. There is a lot of things that would have to happen on both ends and it just isn't the technology holding things back.
    bigkahuna wrote: I have Verizon and I love it. Some of my friends had ATT or Sprint and have jumped ship to Verizon. I have to ask though; what is 3G? I really don't understand what that means.
    3rd Generation Wireless
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3G

    dlazz wrote: I've had ATT for five or six years...I've probably had two or three legitimate "dropped" calls, and those were simply due to a weak signal.

    The only other "issue" I've run into is trying to call someone after an OSU home game (which is an obvious capacity issue, so I'm not going to complain about that)
    That might be the case but ATT is not fixing the problems in two of their biggest markets (data usage), SF and NYC. ATT has dropped the ball.
  • dlazz
    Jawbreaker wrote: That might be the case but ATT is not fixing the problems in two of their biggest markets (data usage), SF and NYC. ATT has dropped the ball.
    Regardless of what NYC/SF residents tell you, they probably aren't priority to ATT. I'm sure ATT has bigger fish to fry.

    But I'm content either way, I don't have a data plan and would probably be content with EDGE connectivity even if I did have one.
  • Jawbreaker
    dlazz wrote:
    Jawbreaker wrote: That might be the case but ATT is not fixing the problems in two of their biggest markets (data usage), SF and NYC. ATT has dropped the ball.
    Regardless of what NYC/SF residents tell you, they probably aren't priority to ATT. I'm sure ATT has bigger fish to fry.

    But I'm content either way, I don't have a data plan and would probably be content with EDGE connectivity even if I did have one.
    In the US, who is a bigger fish than SF and NYC? It is a black eye.
  • NOL fan
    Scarlet_Buckeye wrote: AT&T's response is severely lacking.
    yeah, that initial response commercial with the guy throwing postcards all over the place was really weak. Just about every place he mentioned was a larger city or suburb of one. All of those places are probably already on the map of AT&T's coverage that Verizon has been showing in their commercials anyway
  • dlazz
    SF/NYC probably do amount to a lot of customers, but compared to the rest of their subscriber base I'm sure they are a fraction of their total customers