New AT&T Commercial "Answer"

The commercial really should be ....

"You didn't forget did you honey?"

"Well, I...." BEEP BEEP BEEP.. "Hello, hello? Can you hear me?"

Error message on iphone "Called failed", Safari error message "could not load search page"

Love the iPhone but AT&T is AWFUL!

UPDATE: Oh for all of you who say "my area is fine", unlike you, I don't sit in one exact spot ALL the time. I move around and travel. AT&T is awful. Instead of investing money to upgrade towers and buy better converging equipment (I work for telecommunications company), they decide to invest millions into stupid commercials like this. They made billions off of new iphone subscribers, and invest less than 2% on upgrades of infrastructure. Let's hope verizon isn't as greedy.
 
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aloshka said:
UPDATE: Oh for all of you who say "my area is fine", unlike you, I don't sit in one exact spot ALL the time. I move around and travel. AT&T is awful.
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What do you know, more baseless generalizations! I live in metro St. Louis. I visit family in southwestern Missouri. I visit my sister north of Chicago. I visit my father in Colorado. I visit my cousin in Connecticut.

My area is fine. All their areas are fine. I have AT&T. I travel to their areas.

AT&T being awful for you =/= AT&T being awful for everyone.

You won't be missed when you leave AT&T for "greener grass." More bandwidth for the rest of us. Thanks! :)

Oh - here's a thought. If I used your logic, then VERIZON IS HORRIBLE!!!! They have crappy service where I live, so obviously Verizon is terrible for everyone. See what I did there?
Honestly, I don't care what service provider anyone uses. Use what works for you - stop caring so much about what other people do. However, stop the idiotic bashing of other people and other carriers just because you happen to be in a dead zone for them.
 
As a realtor, I am constantly on the phone while browsing. Although I'm not impressed by AT&T's call quality, I'm grateful I can do both simultaneously.
 
ihav0frnds said:
so you don't...but many do, including me.

you've never had someone call you to look something up online? just the other day, my friend called me asking for directions as he was driving. i was able to use google maps and talk him through directions as his own personal onstar.
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Except for me the call breaks off as I'm telling him where to go, then my data connection kicks off as the phone flips through the letters 3G, E, and o.

I love simultaneous data and voice when it works, love AT&T's download speed when it works, have never loved the voice quality (except when calling AT&T customer support)... but reliable data & voice is way more important to me than simultaneous or faster data.

I love traveling to other places where my iPhone works reliably...
 
charlituna said:
Relying on folks to think up their own situation is not effective advertising. Effective advertising is considering your target group and using something that applies to the whole group. Say, being lost and needing a map. That is way more effective a situation for the varied audience. Or the 'did you get my email' situation. Bumbling schmoo is no good because it is limited in focus and set up in a way where hanging up and then looking on the web wouldn't be a big deal. Making it a bad advertisement
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If you can't watch a commercial like without taking it so literally, you shouldn't have a cell phone in the first place. No one with half a brain watches that commercial and thinks, "Well I'm single and don't have an iPhone so this has nothing to do with me." If it's a bad advertisement, it's a bad advertisement for other reasons. Not because everyone watching it hasn't been in that identical situation at some point in their lives.
 
Vihzel said:
That is a pretty weak response. He could NOT wait for the phone call to end. There's absolutely no need to have voice and data at the same time. Verizon smartphone customers have been doing for how long now and we survive easily without it. What are the chances of this happening in real life? Extremely slim to none.

Sorry AT&T... Verizon's massive coverage (important for me since I travel a lot and AT&T 3G coverage is very spotty in my area) > voice + data. You should focus on the 3G speed over Verizon using data gathered by tech sites. That would be far better than trying to convince people that the need for voice + data outweighs 3G coverage.
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I love it that i can talk and surf at the same time. I can't live with out it.
 
Alaerian said:
What do you know, more baseless generalizations! I live in metro St. Louis. I visit family in southwestern Missouri. I visit my sister north of Chicago. I visit my father in Colorado. I visit my cousin in Connecticut.

My area is fine. All their areas are fine. I have AT&T. I travel to their areas.

AT&T being awful for you =/= AT&T being awful for everyone.

You won't be missed when you leave AT&T for "greener grass." More bandwidth for the rest of us. Thanks! :)

Oh - here's a thought. If I used your logic, then VERIZON IS HORRIBLE!!!! They have crappy service where I live, so obviously Verizon is terrible for everyone. See what I did there?
Honestly, I don't care what service provider anyone uses. Use what works for you - stop caring so much about what other people do. However, stop the idiotic bashing of other people and other carriers just because you happen to be in a dead zone for them.
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Just the fact that you feel that me leaving will give you more "bandwidth" means even you believe it's tight and not enough. Kind of ruins your argument, doesn't it?

And I'm bashing AT&T for the fact that they commerical and act like they were upgrading infrastructure and "really listening to their customers", when in reality, the board pocketed most of the revenue and their upgrade plans were minimal. Just enough to shut up a few people. ANd I was not bashing you, or the people that drop calls, I'm specifically bashing AT&T for their lame stupid tactics and commercials to try to keep people on instead of actually upgrading and making their network more usable. Obviously those stupid commercials convince a lot of people.

By all means stay with AT&T, and my accusations are not baseless. I work for a company that provides cell tower equipment for 90% of AT&T's business, and I know EXACTLY how much they invested in the last 2 years for infrastructure upgrade. And they are a publicly traded company, you can see/hear revenue figure when they post they quarterly figures. Again, public information, NOT baseless. But hey, keep believing your brainwashing commericals, AT&T is the best, they did everything they could.

And if majority of people were not having dropped calls with AT&T, why is it such a large wide-spread issue? Do you see masses of people complaining about anyone else's network? How about this, if I drop 90% of all calls I make on AT&T, i'm only going to send them 10% of my monthly payment. Since they only covered 10% of my calls. If it's just me, won't be a problem, right? Oh wait.. AT&T will lose majority of their revenue, because the MAJORITY of people are having problems. Not you, everyone else.
 
Alaerian said:
What do you know, more baseless generalizations! I live in metro St. Louis. I visit family in southwestern Missouri. I visit my sister north of Chicago. I visit my father in Colorado. I visit my cousin in Connecticut.

My area is fine. All their areas are fine. I have AT&T. I travel to their areas.

AT&T being awful for you =/= AT&T being awful for everyone.

You won't be missed when you leave AT&T for "greener grass." More bandwidth for the rest of us. Thanks! :)

Oh - here's a thought. If I used your logic, then VERIZON IS HORRIBLE!!!! They have crappy service where I live, so obviously Verizon is terrible for everyone. See what I did there?
Honestly, I don't care what service provider anyone uses. Use what works for you - stop caring so much about what other people do. However, stop the idiotic bashing of other people and other carriers just because you happen to be in a dead zone for them.
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Oh, and I just remembered another thing. I'm sure you have seen/heard lots of the commercials of AT&T being the "nations fastest 3g network".. How is that possible when verizon now has LTE.
 
honestly, i cant wait for the VZW network to take a serious hit with all of these iphones on it. it's pretty annoying to see all you guys talk crap about at&t's network. the same thing will happen to verizons and i will laugh.
 
charlituna said:
Relying on folks to think up their own situation is not effective advertising. Effective advertising is considering your target group and using something that applies to the whole group. Say, being lost and needing a map. That is way more effective a situation for the varied audience. Or the 'did you get my email' situation. Bumbling schmoo is no good because it is limited in focus and set up in a way where hanging up and then looking on the web wouldn't be a big deal. Making it a bad advertisement
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I'm not an advertiser but I'm guessing being a little funny and human is more important and memorable than the fear the Internet nerds are gonna think "aw jeez that's so fake he could have just stopped and Internetted AFTER he hung up! Or why's he in an office at all doesn't he have a laptop LOL"

A mapping situation is more practical, but then again, they might not want to remind people that the phone doesn't pack a full GPS worth of information -- they don't want to remind folks that you don't have a functioning "GPS"/mapper if you don't have a network signal!

And the "did you get my email?" pitch -- what's the scenario, someone calls, asks "did you get my email?" and the person on the phone has to go look it up, realize they DID get it? Not funny or realistic or showing something that needs the network on during the call (since mail synchs, you don't need network in real time) Maybe there would be room for a joke where a guy has to send an email RIGHT NOW as he's on the phone, but overall email is MUCH less of a way of showing off in-call data than browsing.

So, basically, haters gotta hate, and think they know more about making a decently funny (ok writing and acting, the guy sounds a bit like Phil on Modern Family), memorable spot that shows off AT+T's distinct advantage than whoever AT+T pays the big bucks to.
 
tigert07 said:
honestly, i cant wait for the VZW network to take a serious hit with all of these iphones on it. it's pretty annoying to see all you guys talk crap about at&t's network. the same thing will happen to verizons and i will laugh.
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Unfortunately you are probably right. That's why I'll wait out with AT&T (as much as I don't like them as a company), see if people leaving the network will improve it's performance and give enough time for Verizon to pick up people to see how their network holds up. And then choose one and shut up about it.
 
Do your research before you speak

aloshka said:
Oh, and I just remembered another thing. I'm sure you have seen/heard lots of the commercials of AT&T being the "nations fastest 3g network".. How is that possible when verizon now has LTE.
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LTE is a 4G technology....Therefore the statement holds true
Also real world HSPA+ 3G speeds tend to be about on par or slightly higher than 4G's real world speeds. Unfortunately most people are only getting regular 3G and not HSPA+ with At&t. However here in Dallas we get the the + and I often get 5 or more mb/s down and 3-4 up when my 4G friends (Sprint mainly) are getting about 4.5 down and 2 up.
 
aloshka said:
Just the fact that you feel that me leaving will give you more "bandwidth" means even you believe it's tight and not enough. Kind of ruins your argument, doesn't it?
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I never said I believe it's tight or not enough - you assumed. I have no issues with AT&T. Apparently you missed out on light humor. I'll avoid using it in the future.
aloshka said:
By all means stay with AT&T, and my accusations are not baseless. I work for a company that provides cell tower equipment for 90% of AT&T's business, and I know EXACTLY how much they invested in the last 2 years for infrastructure upgrade. <...>
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I've heard this before. Just like every other person on any tech forum is an IT professionial... :rolleyes:
aloshka said:
But hey, keep believing your brainwashing commericals, AT&T is the best, they did everything they could.
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Now that's just plain silly, and methinks you know it. But hey, whatever makes you feel like you got the "last blow." Take your attitude elsewhere, please.
 
axboi87 said:
LTE is a 4G technology....Therefore the statement holds true
Also real world HSPA+ 3G speeds tend to be about on par or slightly higher than 4G's real world speeds. Unfortunately most people are only getting regular 3G and not HSPA+ with At&t. However here in Dallas we get the the + and I often get 5 or more mb/s down and 3-4 up when my 4G friends (Sprint mainly) are getting about 4.5 down and 2 up.
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Yeah, I traveled to Dallas right after I got my iphone 4, and thought it was just the phone for awhile. Then came back to Denver with crappy 3g speeds. HSPA+ is nice.

I talked to an engineer that works on LTE research & dev for AT&T, he actually says LTE is a big lie. The original specifications for LTE called for 100mbs and higher. But marketing got a hold of the term before specs were finalized and LTE now technically means "slightly better than 3g"
 
I use the tomtom app with traffic updates and talk at the same time all the time. If I couldn't do that... it would suck. I wonder if the that counts as data... or if you can do that?
 
aloshka said:
Unfortunately you are probably right. That's why I'll wait out with AT&T (as much as I don't like them as a company), see if people leaving the network will improve it's performance and give enough time for Verizon to pick up people to see how their network holds up. And then choose one and shut up about it.
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yeah, i think verizon will be able to recover. they said they're ready for the onslaught lol so i'm kinda anxious to see what happens. if the network does hold up i will applaud them, but if it takes the hit i think it will i will still laugh. ;):apple:
 
Alaerian said:
I never said I believe it's tight or not enough - you assumed. I have no issues with AT&T. Apparently you missed out on light humor. I'll avoid using it in the future.

I've heard this before. Just like every other person on any tech forum is an IT professionial... :rolleyes:

Now that's just plain silly, and methinks you know it. But hey, whatever makes you feel like you got the "last blow." Take your attitude elsewhere, please.
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Alright, alright, alright. I'll stop the hate parade. I'm a little biased because I hate the way they do business with vendors. They make my life personally more difficult. And you are right, every other person in tech forums does act like an IT professional, but very well might be. How would you know?

This was fun and sorry if offensive.
 
WHAT I LEARNED FROM AT&T's COMMERCIAL:

- If you're a complete jerk who forgets things like anniversaries...

- Yet are somehow still married...

- And you work (late it would seem), in a fancy window office, but for some reason don't have your own computer...

Then once each year having simultaneous data and voice might come in handy.


...so long as your call doesn't drop.


...and you can actually get a data connection.


AT&T: Still searching for a clue...
 
skidog1111 said:
Can anyone confirm if, on Verizon, I can use data via WIFI and talk at the same time?
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You can on every other wifi-equipped Verizon phone (Windows Mobile, Blackberry, webOS, Android). You can on every GSM iPhone. So, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say yes.
 
Kupe said:
WHAT I LEARNED FROM AT&T's COMMERCIAL:
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Well, maybe AT+T is targeting smarter people, who can draw general principles ("hey sometimes it's nice to not have to stop accessing the network because I'm on the phone!") from specific instances that are designed to be a little funny and memorable (if corny/cliched)
 
FiremanMike said:
THANK YOU!

Seriously, I've had a verizon smart phone for about 6 years now.. Never once have I needed to browse the internet while talking.
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The only reason that's so is because you haven't experienced it. Little things like this are the ones you miss if you're used to them.
 
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