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I also liked those Alltel ads with Chad & the party, with Verizon and ATT fighting, just as in real life!
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AT&T Faces Initial Setback in Verizon Ad Spat, Rolls Out Response Ad
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or may be Ben Stiller from zoolander!
I also liked those Alltel ads with Chad & the party, with Verizon and ATT fighting, just as in real life!
I don't think anyone can be accused of wireless carrier fanboy-ism. Personally, I could care less what company provides me service, so long as they, you know, actually provide SERVICE.
Experientially, it seems that way too many people have had problems with AT&T coverage as compared to Verizon. That has been my case, having been an AT&T customer on three different occasions now.
But don't even get me started on Sprint...
AT&T's response commercial should have been this:
- Luke Wilson enters frame.
- Close Up on Wilson's face.
- "Verizon is right." says Wilson.
- Cut to wide shot of Wilson walking out of frame.
BTW... Island of Misfit Toys Verizon Commercial is C-L-A-S-S-I-C....
The fact that the iPhone lowers its head in shame of the 3G coverage hologram above its head is pure genius.
Expect Apple to start offering both chip options in the next iPhone revision. AT&T has screwed the pooch and Apple never sticks around with these type of companies. Look at the ROKR from Motorola.
- Luke Wilson enters frame.
- Close Up on Wilson's face.
- "Verizon is right." says Wilson.
- Cut to wide shot of Wilson walking out of frame.
BTW... Island of Misfit Toys Verizon Commercial is C-L-A-S-S-I-C....
The fact that the iPhone lowers its head in shame of the 3G coverage hologram above its head is pure genius.
Expect Apple to start offering both chip options in the next iPhone revision. AT&T has screwed the pooch and Apple never sticks around with these type of companies. Look at the ROKR from Motorola.
Come on, be truly honest with yourself, if you were in business, you would not stand back and allow another company to trash you on their ads.
Funny, when the Get a Mac ads are played many of the forum members on MR certainly don't call Microsoft (that word you used I won't repeat), they are actually cheering MS on for fighting back. Face it, Verizon is losing business to the iPhone, they are getting desperate. I have friends that manage their stores and they say people come in all the time asking to do they carry the iPhone and when they say no, the customer walks out. Guess where they're going?
Wow... some of you whine way to much about AT&T. If you have it and don't like it, change to something else. If you don't have it then why are you whining? YOU have the choice to use a carrier..... if AT&T isn't providing you with the service you want then go to another provider.... that simple.
Now, I'm no AT&T fan, I'm kind of ambivalent of all the service providers, but I do feel that the Verizon ads are a little misleading. They imply that your phone will stop working outside of the small AT&T 3G coverage map, which just simply isn't true, but that's the impression they give. Kind of sneaky imo.
Even GSM carriers who've had 7.2 online for years, agree that it's more like 1 to 4.5 Mbps down (averaging 2.3Mbps).
To be fair, the contract is how they ensure that they recover their money spent when they gave you a cell phone below cost. If you don't want a contract cancellation fee, buy an unsubsidized phone and don't sign a contract.
Actually, I do that all the time, particularly while on conference calls, and I'd hate to not have that feature.
Simple. Just wait until your contract is up and then switch carriers. In the meantime, keep paying for crappy service each and every month. Real simple.
Can you elaborate on that statement? I'm thinking of switching from AT&T, but not because of 3G, because I get poor coverage with their regular service.
Who did you switch to and how is the experience?
Fastest 3G network?
Well, that's hard to say. I said it before, but AT&T's 3G experience is like driving a Ferrari with some prick in the front passenger seat yanking the parking brake every 90 seconds.
Simultaneous voice and data?
Well, that's only good if you've got good 3G service in your area. If you're going into a dead zone, you'll no doubt get simultaneous voice and data outage. If you're going into EDGE, which they have a lot more of, well, no simultaneous for you.
Most popular smartphones?
I'll give them that, considering both GSM is more prevalent around the world to give more wireless device manufacturers the abillity to provide for the US, and that Verizon's lineup has always been third-rate at best.
Access to over 100,000 apps?
Not your call. Considering that it's Apple's iPhone and their iTunes store that provides that, AT&T is barely making the argument work, only until their exclusivity ends. Add the fact that the iPhone is not even mentioned in the ad, just some other smartphones, that bullet point shouldn't even be mentioned.
AT&T rested on their laurels and their profits with the introduction of the iPhone. Perhaps if it was still Cingular, we'd be in a different scenario by now. But, AT&T remains greedy, from doing things like raising cost of data plan for iPhone 3G users by $10 AND removing text messaging into a separate plan, to screwing over their own salespeople by intentionally ordering a fraction of the iPhone inventory - even as an exclusive US carrier, mind you - just so Apple employees can sell more of them without getting commission.
They get what they deserve in this round of ad wars, and their rebuttal was pathetic at best, though it will serve a moderate portion of the uneducated and unsuspecting public, unlike you and me here on sites like this.
Well, that's hard to say. I said it before, but AT&T's 3G experience is like driving a Ferrari with some prick in the front passenger seat yanking the parking brake every 90 seconds.
Simultaneous voice and data?
Well, that's only good if you've got good 3G service in your area. If you're going into a dead zone, you'll no doubt get simultaneous voice and data outage. If you're going into EDGE, which they have a lot more of, well, no simultaneous for you.
Most popular smartphones?
I'll give them that, considering both GSM is more prevalent around the world to give more wireless device manufacturers the abillity to provide for the US, and that Verizon's lineup has always been third-rate at best.
Access to over 100,000 apps?
Not your call. Considering that it's Apple's iPhone and their iTunes store that provides that, AT&T is barely making the argument work, only until their exclusivity ends. Add the fact that the iPhone is not even mentioned in the ad, just some other smartphones, that bullet point shouldn't even be mentioned.
AT&T rested on their laurels and their profits with the introduction of the iPhone. Perhaps if it was still Cingular, we'd be in a different scenario by now. But, AT&T remains greedy, from doing things like raising cost of data plan for iPhone 3G users by $10 AND removing text messaging into a separate plan, to screwing over their own salespeople by intentionally ordering a fraction of the iPhone inventory - even as an exclusive US carrier, mind you - just so Apple employees can sell more of them without getting commission.
They get what they deserve in this round of ad wars, and their rebuttal was pathetic at best, though it will serve a moderate portion of the uneducated and unsuspecting public, unlike you and me here on sites like this.
Are you new to Planet Earth's America???
Let's see... uh-- "I'm going to go to Verizon or Sprint with my iPhone...". Hey, wait a minute... Thanks, Apple, thanks, AT&T, for exclusive contracts.And now there's rumours of a 3G tablet if tied to a carrier?
Gotta love talking and surfing the web at the same time...what a great feature for AT&T. Haha that feature list is pretty lame compared to what Verizon probably has.
AT&T dual mode?
I had the 1st Gen iphone I remember being online with a phone call... maybe Im wrong. But it works great now. 3G in LA all the time except for the subway tunnel. I carried a Verizion phone and iPhone side by side for years all over LA county and when one is out of service so is the other. I dont know the diffrence. So you guys "who used to have AT&T, and it sucked..." are full of it. These are just problems of mobile phones.
I had the 1st Gen iphone I remember being online with a phone call... maybe Im wrong. But it works great now. 3G in LA all the time except for the subway tunnel. I carried a Verizion phone and iPhone side by side for years all over LA county and when one is out of service so is the other. I dont know the diffrence. So you guys "who used to have AT&T, and it sucked..." are full of it. These are just problems of mobile phones.
This is getting out of hand but lets take a departure from the 3G POV and look at capabilities. Can Verizon handle processing request, through their mobile network, from an iphone user ranging from movie downloads to games? Hell no! Neither can AT&T. I was on the us the other day and tried downloading a file that was big. A prompt came up pretty much saying I was s*** out of luck.
See, coverage of 3G doesn't mean capabilities. It just means coverage.
Of course AT&T wouldn't advertise such a thing b/c it would sully their image.
But AT&T has the iphone and I have the iphone.
See, coverage of 3G doesn't mean capabilities. It just means coverage.
Of course AT&T wouldn't advertise such a thing b/c it would sully their image.
But AT&T has the iphone and I have the iphone.
Spice, speak for yourself. I gladly pay for better service with AT&T than I ever got with Verizon. Verizon is not the Jesus network that people claim on here it is. Verizon sucks, plain and simple.
The ignorance on these forums (and the rest of the country) surrounding the concept of "3G" astounds me.
The abbreviation "3G" is essentially meaningless when you compare it between mobile phone providers. All 3G means is "3rd generation" or "3rd version." Verizon may technically have more "3G" coverage but so what? It's the bit rate stupid.
Fact: AT&T's EDGE network averages at the same bit rate as Verizon's "3G". It doesn't matter what you call it–AT&T calls it EDGE (or 2G or 2.5G) Verizon calls it 3G. Keep in mind this is all averaged across the country. Individual experience is going to vary. If your 3G coverage and performance in San Diego sucks that's too bad but that's basically anecdotal. And when you compare AT&T's EDGE coverage with Verizon's "3G" the map is nearly identical.
Apple went with AT&T because they have the best overall coverage (voice & data) in the country. Again, that's an AVERAGE. If you're on AT&T you have the best chance of getting connected—period. If you don't have good coverage in your area that's too bad and you can use a different provider.
The abbreviation "3G" is essentially meaningless when you compare it between mobile phone providers. All 3G means is "3rd generation" or "3rd version." Verizon may technically have more "3G" coverage but so what? It's the bit rate stupid.
Fact: AT&T's EDGE network averages at the same bit rate as Verizon's "3G". It doesn't matter what you call it–AT&T calls it EDGE (or 2G or 2.5G) Verizon calls it 3G. Keep in mind this is all averaged across the country. Individual experience is going to vary. If your 3G coverage and performance in San Diego sucks that's too bad but that's basically anecdotal. And when you compare AT&T's EDGE coverage with Verizon's "3G" the map is nearly identical.
Apple went with AT&T because they have the best overall coverage (voice & data) in the country. Again, that's an AVERAGE. If you're on AT&T you have the best chance of getting connected—period. If you don't have good coverage in your area that's too bad and you can use a different provider.
They didn't try to refute the Verizon ads about "the map"? I wonder why not?
Ever get caught with your pants down? They must think their potential customers are naive.
Rich
Ever get caught with your pants down? They must think their potential customers are naive.
Rich
It really depends on where you live. In the NE Verizon is generally much better than AT&T. Other places, not so much. Location, location, location...