LMAO! Too funny and too true. AT&T sucks so bad. The fact that Apple fanboys are so obsessed with owning an iPhone that they will break contract with their existing carrier to sign on with the WORST carrier in the US is just really sad.
hey genius, i don't tell you what kind of toilet paper to wipe your big butt with so don't tell me what cell carrier to use.
not that it's your business, but i was with Cingular before AT&T bought it. as others have stated with their experiences, my AT&T service has been flawless. i'm not saying AT&T is perfect. hell, even i hate their customer service. cingular had great CS by the way and never any problems with the service.
also, what the hell does this have to do with apple fanboys?! my iphone has also worked as advertised and it's what works for me. no one forced me to buy it, not apple, not at&t. i made a decision to buy it, because i didn't like any phone i had up to that point, and i believed it would do all the things i felt i had been wanting from a phone.
if you don't like iphones, and you don't like AT&T then there are plenty of other options out there for you, BUT i don't need you getting up in my business. do whatever the hell you want.
ON TOPIC now, since you couldn't be:
i think verizon and at&t are both right in this case. at&t definitely doesn't have as large an area covered by 3G as verizon. verizon is right for calling them out on it. at the same time, i think verizon is being stupid to suggest that at&t can't demonstrate that any harm has come of these ads. WTF?! who are they kidding with an argument like that. if no harm to at&t was ever going to come of these ads, then why would verizon have invested in them. that's the whole point of them, to get people to not like at&t and go to verizon. DUH!!!
it's pretty obvious that verizon would definitely gain the advantage if consumers misinterpreted the ads and thought that at&t didn't have coverage at all in areas that weren't mark. hell, lots of people don't understand what 3G even is, let alone, that there is something called 2G/edge to fill in the gaps. verizon definitely wins here when the consumer is ignorant in this situation.
all that said, i don't think it means at&t has any legal argument. if it bothers them that much, they should fight back with "better" more detailed, educational, advertising of their own and point out that they actually have "more" coverage than verizon, and maybe even demonstrate how they are constantly adding 3g coverage (if they in fact are).
There's a reason why Verizon slammed the door on Steve Jobs and the iPhone.
