I understand the frustration with apple and att (remember, they're in this together). I get great service at my home in greater cincinnati and in any number of other places when i travel, and horrible, wholly unsatisfactory service at my home in st petersburg. So I'd like things improved too. My objections to posts like yours, Andronicus, is with the attitude of hoping they fail. It reeks of Rush Limbaugh hoping Obama fails. Unless you're an anarchist, and certainly with situations involving your phone company, for gods' sake, or our president, that's not a position i'd endorse, I'd like to see people advocate for change, not for tearing down. Have the whiners here complained to the FCC? Have they complained to ATT that their service is so bad they should be let out of their contract? I doubt it. It's easy to holler "tear it down," "i hope it fails," "you're ugly I hope you die", but those aren't very mature responses and more importantly they're not very effective. There are more effective things we can--and should--do. End of rant.