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AT&T Customers Remaining Loyal as Verizon and Sprint Gain iPhone
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Had an iPhone 3G on AT&T for 3 years. Loved the phone. Broke it and decided to switch to Verizon for an iPhone 4 because everyone swore Verizon was soooo superior (mainly droid freaks).
Huge mistake! I regret it everyday. I hate:
- the slow Verizon 3G (vs the fast AT&T 3G)
- when I'm in an app and get a text, the app disconnects
- sitting in Busch stadium in STL and not having Verizon service
- waundering the streets in Chicago and data being so slow I can't use maps
- having 3 bars but the phone won't dial
- still no service on ski slopes
- no roaming in some countries - I just have NO SERVICE when I travel.
BTW, it's not an issue with my individual handset. I had the first 4 warrantied. Both of them are equally as bad.
I'm convinved the reason people think Verizon has better coverage than AT&T is because Verizon lies about their coverage and AT&T is honest about poor coverage areas.
I hated AT&T's business practices, but at least their service didn't piss me off everyday. Similar to how I know Walmart isn't a good company, but I sure buy up their cheap stuff!
Huge mistake! I regret it everyday. I hate:
- the slow Verizon 3G (vs the fast AT&T 3G)
- when I'm in an app and get a text, the app disconnects
- sitting in Busch stadium in STL and not having Verizon service
- waundering the streets in Chicago and data being so slow I can't use maps
- having 3 bars but the phone won't dial
- still no service on ski slopes
- no roaming in some countries - I just have NO SERVICE when I travel.
BTW, it's not an issue with my individual handset. I had the first 4 warrantied. Both of them are equally as bad.
I'm convinved the reason people think Verizon has better coverage than AT&T is because Verizon lies about their coverage and AT&T is honest about poor coverage areas.
I hated AT&T's business practices, but at least their service didn't piss me off everyday. Similar to how I know Walmart isn't a good company, but I sure buy up their cheap stuff!
hahah wow.... your reading comprehension is terrible
YES, we know att is FASTER... nobody is denying that.
The point is, if I'm at home and have no signal from att, how can that be faster than having signal from verizon???? Even if a website takes 2 minutes to load with verizon, it will be faster than never loading on att because it is searching for service.
And again you are wrong in regards to LTE. I think you may have been referring to the "few" LTE towers att has put up.
Yeah, att has LTE in 5 markets right now, with 15 scheduled before the end of the year.
Verizon has 178 markets and covers over 185 million of their subscribers. Lets not forget verizon has had LTE for almost a year now, while att has only had it in 5 markets for a few months.
Also, being near an LTE tower would have no affect on iPhone speeds.... the iPhone is not an LTE device. Maybe come back when you have valid points to argue.
You clearly dont have a clue about Windows Phone 7 do you. I guess you must be one of those folks that thinks that MacOS is immune to viruses. Maybe you even downloaded and paid for an awesome app called MacDefender!!! lol.
Btw.. how is your battery faring on IPhone 4S ???
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LOL, my battery life is normal as any other iPhone or blackberry I have owned. No, I do not have a windows 7 phone which should provide you with the needed education that I also would not download Mac Defender.
Pretty funny when someone is stupid enough to point out the very few vulnerabilities in Mac OS when defending Windows. Thank you for the chuckle of the day.
i think he was pointing out the flaws in your logic and basic lack of knowledge in reference to the topics you mention more than whether windows or osx is more secure.
Thank YOU for the chuckles though!
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That's terrible, I'm on a conference call and reading this forum at the same time on AT&T. In the 15+ years I've been with AT&T in central California I've not dropped more that 15 to 20 calls.
bmustaf said:
Ha! It drives me crazy that I can't surf *or* talk on ATT - let alone do both at the same time
That's terrible, I'm on a conference call and reading this forum at the same time on AT&T. In the 15+ years I've been with AT&T in central California I've not dropped more that 15 to 20 calls.
Then what is your point if you are agreeing AT&T is faster. Are you upset that I didn't mention that AT&T is faster except in your home? LOL.
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umm verizon has the largest 4G LTE network in america and covers over 130 different markets, compared to att's paltry 5.
Windows Phone 7 is just as closed as iOS.... no such thing as virus gate.
I guess you can keep your hater hat on while you're making false claims!
How is your Verizon iPhone on LTE?
For the record, I have att, and I do have service at my house... i'm talking in theory here, guess you don't know what that means.
Anyways, this is the 3rd and last time I'll say it for you. If you can't figure it out by now, go back to school and take some reading classes.
when tested, att provides faster data speeds than verizon. We know that. What michael was saying, is that those speeds mean nothing if he doesn't have reliable att service where he lives.
what good are faster data speeds if you don't have a signal? exactly. Thus the point of the comments.
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Macboy Pro said:
haha your partial quotes are funny. Lets see, you are the one who told me, maybe verizon will be faster if you are next to one of their "few" LTE towers:
Macboy Pro said:
I then replied to you by saying:
So, umm thanks for repeating after me?!?!?!
The only reason I brought up LTE is because you claimed vzw only had a few towers, which is false, and in comparison, att's LTE attempt is a complete joke at this point. Never once did I claim i get faster speeds because vzw has LTE.
I know you are going to comment back with some moronic response, but I'm not going to continue to repeat myself to someone who can't read what's right in front of them.
Beats me; thats what the AT&T store rep told me. BestBuy mobile rep told me the same thing. This was when I was comptemplating to renew my contract with AT&T versus buy an iphone no-contract; so i can switch to any carrier i want later. They said it would be cheaper to just renew the contract; and cancel later and pay the ETF rather than buy the iphone outright.
So AT&T retail rep gave me 2 examples: a) if i renew my 2yr contract and cancel it without returning the iphone would be like $20 cheaper than paying for the full price outright; and b) if i renew my contract and cancel a year from now when I want to switch; would save me about $120. Then he said after 1 year it's $20 off each month; so it will quickly go down.
Aparrently some class-action lawsuit against AT&T for making customers overpay ETF when they only got 1 month to go in their contract spark this whole thing. He explained AT&T is forced to make the ETF more fair for customers near the end of their contract... so if you only have 1 month to go; it wont cost you like $100.
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I was in Chinatown for lunch. Right within that plaza I get 0-1 bar.... and mostly no bar. Not even EDGE.
Airport works... driving through chinatown to downtown was spotty... as I was trying to use my phone's GPS to guide me to my hotel and gas station. I pulled over trying to find a movie theatre and see whats close to my hotel ... and gave up.
This isn't to say I hate AT&T... just something I am giving my testimony to my coverage while visiting Chicago back in October 2011. To be fair... my wife got T-Mobile, and it got 1-2 bar in Chinatown area... Sprint looks like it works well when I visited back in September with friends who had Sprint with them.
But this isn't a reason for me to switch. AT&T3G rocks in my home town of Minneapolis.
Next time you get a chance to go to Chinatown, check your signal... i like to know if the 4S new attenna design works better there.
Wow. I had the same issue with AT&T when I visited Chicago. I mainly stopped over on my way to Cancun but stayed a night in Chicago. Rented a car and went to visit Bank of America (no BofA in MN) for some account work; then stopped by Chinatown for lunch. Mostly on the route between the O'hare airport and to Chinatown I got spotty coverage; and barely any at all once in Chinatown.
My wife has t-mobile and pactically had the same issues but not as bad in Chinatown. Only other network I know works well (in Chicago Chinatown) is Sprint...
I would think Verizon would have decent coverage in Chicago. Thanks for letting me know! I was considering switching my company mobile to Verizon!
Compare apples to apples.
Reliability: Verizon Wins. Its amazing how many calls I have dropped with 5 bars on AT&T.
3G Speed: AT&T Wins
4G Speed: Verizon kills AT&T, but sadly Verizon 4G LTE is only available on non IPhone platforms. As someone else mentioned, AT&T's "4G" is a joke and they have no transition path to real 4G speeds. Its funny that they are trying to convice Apple to allow them to show the 4G Icon on the new 4S phones, when it isn't really 4G.
Ironically, IPhone is causing a lot more pain for Verizon than expected its the IPhone customers that keep complaining that their download speeds are slowed than their AT&T counterparts. Little do they know that they should blame Apple for releasing an outdated phone on the Verizon network that doesn't support 4G LTE.
Once again, if you want outdated over-priced tech, stick with Apple. I made the mistake of switching from Verizon to AT&T years ago to get the Blackberry and have regretted ever since. Can't wait to get back.
Reliability: Verizon Wins. Its amazing how many calls I have dropped with 5 bars on AT&T.
3G Speed: AT&T Wins
4G Speed: Verizon kills AT&T, but sadly Verizon 4G LTE is only available on non IPhone platforms. As someone else mentioned, AT&T's "4G" is a joke and they have no transition path to real 4G speeds. Its funny that they are trying to convice Apple to allow them to show the 4G Icon on the new 4S phones, when it isn't really 4G.
Ironically, IPhone is causing a lot more pain for Verizon than expected its the IPhone customers that keep complaining that their download speeds are slowed than their AT&T counterparts. Little do they know that they should blame Apple for releasing an outdated phone on the Verizon network that doesn't support 4G LTE.
Once again, if you want outdated over-priced tech, stick with Apple. I made the mistake of switching from Verizon to AT&T years ago to get the Blackberry and have regretted ever since. Can't wait to get back.
Not true, my Thunderbolt did both prior to LTE hitting my area. Unless it's something specific to just the LTE phones in general regardless of coverage type. I don't see why the 4S couldn't have done it over 3G if Thunderbolt did.