you are really that much in love with Verizon that you feel the need to try to defend them on every single thread there's a mention about verizon?
Don't get confused about intent, Applejuiced.
I'm in love with factual discussions, not Verizon. I've fallen into the habit of correcting the common myths about Verizon and CDMA around THIS forum, simply because I know a lot about their setup, and there are a lot of newbies posting junk.
On other forums, you would think that I "defend" ATT and Apple. But again, it's all about having discussions based on facts, not myths or even opinions.
USA is not just NYC. Maybe just maybe people in other areas have no problems with their AT&T coverage. Is it that hard to believe?
Don't extrapolate something I didn't say.
This report is bogus. Most people read an article like this and just take it at face value, without looking deeper to see if it has any basis. They do this from lack of time, laziness, ignorance of the technology, or whatever.
If, instead of posting about my posts, you would actually take the time to go read the sources and check out the info, then even YOU would probably figure out that the conclusion of the author was baseless.
In fact, the sources themselves disclaim any use of their data to determine if one carrier is better than the other.
Why? Because the data is voluntarily collected at random locations and therefore there was no direct comparison made between carriers at those locations... or between devices... or for different times of day.
Worse, the data gets easily skewed. If the speed is say, usually good in a park, but many people try from a nearby basement and get a bad result, it pulls down the whole average. This is true no matter what carrier you look at. Btw, if you look closely, you'll notice that all the carriers have similar top speeds in the clear areas.
The reporter was trying to back up his assertion that the iPhone is at fault for dropped calls and congestion. To do so, he needed to prove that ATT is normally okay or even the "best". That's fine, but he used poor data to do that.
