...after 3+ years of promises, they still had no 3G service in the city where I live, Santa Fe, NM. I went to Verizon and the Droid Incredible, and I'm as happy as a pig in ****.
Ironically, AT&T is promising (again) 3G coverage here within 2-3 months. We'll see if that really happens.
Of course, you have to remember that despite Verizon’s misleading ads, all 3G is not alike.
Verizon’s 3G is a lot more like AT&T’s EDGE: generally slower, and you can’t get an email while on the phone(!)
So as I understand it, the maps Verizon should probably compare to be FAIR would either be:
* Verizon’s reduced-speed, no-simultaneous data network, vs. AT&T’s reduced-speed, no-simultaneous data network. (That would be Verizon 3G vs. AT&T’s EDGE—which covers the US very well, just like Verizon.)
OR
* Verizon’s higher-speed, simultaneous-data network (which basically doesn’t exist) vs. AT&T’s higher-speed, simultaneous-data network (which covers most of the US population, albeit with some holes filled by EDGE).
But Verizon ads compare their LOW-end network to AT&T’s HIGH-END network, using the misleading term “3G” to make it seem they’re the same. Or to make it seem like AT&T doesn’t cover the country as well. This is pure deception.
(And yes, Verizon is improving all the time... but so is AT&T. 3G speeds have gone up for AT&T users, while Verizon still won’t let you look up something online while talking about it on the phone.)
