AT&T is now suing Verizon Wireless over their recent commercial about their "spotty" 3G coverage. The commercial takes a jab at AT&T and Apple's iPhone in the commercial, changing the popular iPhone catch phrase, "there's an app for that" to "there's a map for that", pointing out AT&T's 3G coverage.AT&T's lawsuit against Verizon Wireless claims the latest advertising campaign falsely suggests AT&T customers have coverage gaps. AT&T thinks that Verizon is trying to fool consumers into thinking they can not use their mobile phone outside of AT&T's 3G coverage area, while the map does not show AT&T's massive 2G coverage.
Near the end of the 30 second commercial, viewers can see a side-by-side comparison image that compares only the 3G coverage, instead of including AT&T's cellular service. Verizon has already modified their commercial, removing the phrase "out of touch" and adding in "Voice and data services available outside of 3G areas." AT&T is now trying to have the commercial stopped.
Last edited by thealexweb on 03 Nov 2009 - 22:27
Yeah, it's really that bad. AT&T server is abysmal at best.
+1. Anyone that I know that has had AT&T agrees with this. I'm glad that someone finally had the guts to put it out there. I hope this is thrown out.
I've got a Go Phone so really don't know much about 3G. But I saw the coverage map for ATT recently and certainly Verizon whips there behind for it. Went to South Dakota, no bars. Went to Prairie Du Chien WI, no bars no bars for miles on end.
Now 3G for ATT is a joke, my brothers got the AT&T Tilt (HTC) doesn't really get true 3G. We visited someone in Des Moines IA and then he was rocking. But 3G support for AT&T is spotty at best.
I had ATT before coming to college in South Dakota and had to drop them because they had 0 service in my town. No voice or data. Despite being assured by them I would.
True, but the phone model provided by AT&T could have had a crappy Bt module.
Well yeh switching sims is easy, but for verizon all you do is go online and enter the UID of your new phone and your number / voicemail is transferred over, at least thats what I had to do...so maybe things have changed now
And yeh you probably got a crappy bluetooth module =/
Maybe they need to learn to read too... it clearly says AT&T 3g coverage....
I switched to verizon last month and its so so much better and I pay less for the same plan too.
Last edited by /- Razorfold on 03 Nov 2009 - 22:49
It the fastest because nobody can connect to it so they barely have any of their bandwidth being used
You do know CDMA was the first technology to support 3g right?
While GSM is more popular, and the idea of having sim cards is better than phones locked to networks. In america, the GSM carriers are terrible...
While GSM is more popular, and the idea of having sim cards is better than phones locked to networks. In america, the GSM carriers are terrible...
Yes, you're right, but I'll take a decent GSM service over any CDMA service. I think Verizon or Sprint should migrate to GSM/UMTS if they want to get more customers, CDMA is a very restrictive technology compared to GSM convenience and international compatibility.
Well a good amount of americans don't travel abroad or even hold pasports, so international compatibility isn't that big a deal (and if you do travel, then both sprint and verizon have global phones that have both the CDMA and GSM radios with a simcard)
As for convenience, it doesn't really matter unless you travel abroad. Get a new phone? just enter the UID in your account online and your number/voicemail is transferred over immediately.
The only reason I ever used AT&T in america was because I live in HK but go to university here so I needed a GSM phone. However, last month got myself a global phone from verizon so now when I go back I slip in my HK sim card and use GSM and in America it uses verizons cdma network.
While GSM is more popular, and the idea of having sim cards is better than phones locked to networks. In america, the GSM carriers are terrible...
Yes, you're right, but I'll take a decent GSM service over any CDMA service. I think Verizon or Sprint should migrate to GSM/UMTS if they want to get more customers, CDMA is a very restrictive technology compared to GSM convenience and international compatibility.
By the way, I once worked for Cingular (AT&T) and was so impressed with what I discovered that I changed to Verizon while working there. NEVER will go back to them. I am probably getting screwed just as badly by Sprint, and Verizon before,. but at least I didn't know HOW they did it.
iPhone- handhelds for wusses.
While GSM is more popular, and the idea of having sim cards is better than phones locked to networks. In america, the GSM carriers are terrible...
Yes, you're right, but I'll take a decent GSM service over any CDMA service. I think Verizon or Sprint should migrate to GSM/UMTS if they want to get more customers, CDMA is a very restrictive technology compared to GSM convenience and international compatibility.
Verizon will begin transitioning to a GSM-based 4G standard next year (LTE), so I think they're already on track to do what you've asked. The phones will probably be world phones and still have CDMA chips in them, since I doubt their 4G network will be everywhere at once when it launches.
I've heard about that as well. I'm kind of curious to see how that is going to work out though. Will current Verizon phones work on the new network? I would think they would have to, right?
If at&t spent some MONEY on their network, instead of lining their pockets, perhaps their 3G speeds
would be faster than dialup!
Last edited by John S. on 07 Nov 2009 - 09:38
lol, your envy is so obvious. I have not had a single issue with ATTs network yet, have yet to drop a call since I switched from Verizon and the data network has been trouble free.
Last edited by rm20010 on 04 Nov 2009 - 15:03
I have a friend of mine who wanted out of AT&T so bad, he gave the phone and plan over to his brother and jumped to Verizon. Nothing to do with wanting a certain kind of phone either. Apparently, it was just that bad. :/
@Houston, TX
Verizon should be allowed to keep the commercial. AT&T doesn't like? Make it better for ****s sake!
Verizon has the best service with the ****tiest phones, no doubt.
I think his comment was made as sarcasm for not caring about this sh*t on an international website.
Well, in fairness Neowin does report on global news. There is a lot of news that isn't US specific...
T-Mobile outage all over the USA... Haha.
http://forums.t-mobile.com/tmbl/board/mess...;thread.id=6168
T-Mobile outage all over the USA... Haha.
http://forums.t-mobile.com/tmbl/board/mess...;thread.id=6168
Yea, can call out, but can't receive.
This is why AT&T can have such an F'up network yet people go goo-goo for things like the iPhone, and AT&T can get away with charging so much more and giving so little. If people in a majority actually made noise and put AT&T to the wall, they may actually bother to spend money on their network, but since they know only a handful of people in the states even know or understand CDMA vs GSM vs coverage etc, they will just continue to do just enough to get by.
The commercial says that it's the Samsung Rogue. It is a very sharp looking phone though. I've never seen that model. It's nice. I love my Samsung Omnia myself. The Omnia 2 is coming out soon as well, which is VERY nice.
Everyone's buzzing about 3G, and ATT is still stuck to it's 2G pride. Wow, amazing.
On that note though 3G coverage does suck where I am. I am probably right on the edge of the coverage area. They are probably behind the curve for quite a bit since I think at least one provider is moving forward with plans for 4G deployment soon. Sprint has better 3G coverage around here but their dropped call rate is bad in my opinion.
All in all, screw AT&T. I really dislike most of their services and how they handle things, U-Verse being the one exception to it all. Even then though, it still costs quite a bit...
I mean who still uses CDMA?, it's all about UMTS now.
The maps posted is true you know...
So you might live in a 3G area but as you can see most don't and Verizon has ALOT more 3G area.
At&t 2g coverage.
At&t 2g coverage.
It was Verizon 3g vs At&T 3g (not 2g coverage). For me the comerical was very clear this was the "high speed" 3g network for enhanced features of the phone. I did not get the impression that AT&T "normal" cell phone calls were somehow non-working in the majority of the us.
tl;dr AT&T sucks. Carry on.
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