att network vs verizon

I live in Utah and with the release of the droid I am going to switch to verizon. I love my iPhone but ATT is just terrible. I live downtown and my coverage *****, drop calls and the data is slooow. When I travel throughout the western region and drop service people always say, "Odd you are on Verizon right? I have signal."


Apple, drop exclusivity and let people choose their carrier. I am not getting the 3GS because of ATT.

Even if the exclusive deal with ATT ends, the iPhone will not work with Verizon. Verizon still uses a standard called CDMA and the iPhone uses GSM.

In some areas, ATT has poor coverage while Verizon has good coverage. In my area, Verizon has weaker coverage and this is coming from someone who was with Verizon for 15 years before switching.

So are you also demanding that Verizon drop the exclusive agreement on the droid and let others have it?

Agreed as to AT&T's awful performance in NYC area & in most high population density areas (like football games, etc.)

Please, please, please Apple - take note: the iphone obviously has been a huge success even using at&t...keep sales increasing at maximum potential and get on Verizon's 4G/LTE network(with backwards compatibility)! This is the best (if not only) plan to sustain continued massive iphone growth in the US. Most who were interested already bought on AT&T. There are a lot of iphone/mac fans out there like myself who will only buy an iphone if its on Verizon. There is no downside - open it up to big red and you'll dominate the smart phone market on the two largest US networks! While your at it tell 'em it has to tether and not offer vcrap (vcast) 😉

If Verizon's deployment of FIOS is any indication, their LTE network is years down the road for the majority of people.

Roughly 20,000,000 iPhones sold. From what I have been able to find, about 1/2 of those are in the United States. And using what would be a minimum monthly charge of $65.00 times the 10 million U.S. iphones, which would be all except the small percentage of jail broken phones on another service, that equates to $65,000,000.00 per month - or $780,000,000.00 per year. Seems to me that for 3/4 of a Billion dollars PER YEAR, that AT&T would be more concerned with increasing their coverage and improving their service instead of suing Verizon because they feel their coverage maps are being mis-represented.
The absolute best thing is the world for AT&T would be for Apple to allow more than one carrier be able to connect the iPhone. Just like Microsoft, what they need is competition. Monopolies are not in the best interest of the end users and customers.

The last number I read was about 50 million iPhones sold worldwide. In the first 3 quarters of 2009, Apple has sold 13.4 million phones according to their earnings reports.

There are some pretty cool rumors floating around out there. I think Q3 of 2010 could be an interesting time for those that have been following this thread.

I live in Evansville, Indiana and am very satisfied with AT&T's network. There is 3G coverage throughout the entire city.

My parents both own Blackberry Curve model 9310 and they aren't totally satisfied with them. They are only about one year old and they are starting to come apart due to wear-and-tear. The keyboard buttons make noise when you push them. The phone as a whole just doesn't feel very sturdy in general.

I am extremely satisfied with my iPhone 3G. I would certainly recommend it to anyone who wishes to own a smartphone of any sort. If you'd like my full review, check out my blog at frank0116.blogspot.com. I hope you find it helpful.

If you still aren't sure about getting an iPhone, many AT&T stores have working iPhones on display to toy around with. I think you will find the phone to be very nice and easy to use.

I love my iPhone. Interesting to see everyone now trying to play catch up. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, so my 3G coverage at home, and around the bay are fine. But step outside my home turf and start traveling anywhere, and 3G coverage begins to suffer quite a bit. There is absolutely no reason why AT&T cannot reinvest more of the revenue they receive into improving their service. And to have their store reps telling other customers that any connection issues they have can be attributed to the iPhone, boarders on the irresponsible. And now AT&T is suing Verizon for what they claim is misrepresentation on the 3G coverage maps. Come on AT&T - fix it. I had AT&T five years ago, and canceled because of poor coverage. Then a few years ago they acquired Singular and got a lot better. Now the iPhone and others using 3G are pushing the limits. They need to keep up.

Funny, I subscribe to two magazines located in the San Francisco area, and there are a few prolific posters here from the city by the bay and they all say 3G coverage is poor in the Bay Area. You say it is good. This goes back to the theory that cell coverage is not measured state-by-state, or city-by-city but block-by-block.

So in your travels have to you been to Seattle? Boise? Columbia, MO? Norman, OK? Denver, Phoenix? Washington D.C? Nashville? Places en route to those places? Because I have and I've had very good to great coverage in the places I was at in those environs.

Also, please get your facts straight. AT&T Wireless was acquired by Cingular more than 5 years ago. Southwestern Bell and Bell South co-owned Cingular. Southwestern Bell, then called SBC acquired Bell South. They then, for whatever reason, changed the name of the company to AT&T. The AT&T you had five years ago has not existed for a number of years.

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So in your travels have to you been to Seattle? Boise? Columbia, MO? Norman, OK? Denver, Phoenix? Washington D.C? Nashville? Places en route to those places? Because I have and I've had very good to great coverage in the places I was at in those environs.

Have you've been to (or, driven through) anywhere in Wyoming...or Montana? If not, then why don't you take your iPhone there and report back to us as to what kind of (AT&T) 3G coverage you can get on it... 😉

Yep, been to both several times, in most places (except for Cheyenne) I got good EDGE coverage, no 3G. If parts of Wyoming and Montana have 3G coverage with Verizon then I would suggest the people there go with Verizon (or Sprint or whoever) if they need 3G speeds and get a Droid or other 3G phone. So what has this got to do with anything? I don't really care if Verizon has more 3G places on a map than AT&T. If this fact makes you feel better buy Verizon stock and revel in it. I just want coverage where I spend most of my time. Would be awfully silly to get a Verizon phone with no service at my house.

Here in Northern (not Upper) Michigan, I hear endless complaints from friends/co-workers about Verizon (and formerly Alltel) service. It's horrible, with dead zone everywhere, even in and around Traverse City (northern Michigan's largest metropolitan area). I've been extremely satisfied with AT&T service here, and have yet to run into any dead zones, have any dropped calls, or experience any of the troubles I often read about AT&T service. In my often travels south to Grand Rapids and Lansing, I've also had great service. Both during the drive down/back and while in the area. I can imagine things are quite different in major metro areas though.

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You know what's funny? That whenever someone complains about AT&T's (yes I know it's no different when it comes to other carriers but it appears that the majority of defenders in this thread appear to be pro-AT&T) lack of (or, poor) network coverage/reception in certain areas, there's always a bunch of folks who immediately come to AT&T's defense by offering that they have no such coverage/reception issues wherever they go. How does telling someone that you have no reception problems in *your area* help that person, as far as his location is concerned? It's almost as if, by telling someone that you have no reception/coverage problems wherever you go, you're insinuating that there is no reception/coverage problem at all and that any such problem is more likely an end-user issue rather than an AT&T network one...

Now before you assume that I'm pro-Verizon/anti-AT&T--I am a current AT&T Wireless customer...have been since the Cingular (and even Pacific Bell Wireless) days--i.e., much longer than the iPhone has been around; there hasn't been nor is there currently anything out there that would convince me to switch to Verizon...but I'd only be acting like an AT&T fanboy if I were to tell you that there hasn't been any place I've been or gone through where I'd seen my phone tell me that it could not pick up some sort of AT&T signal (or at best, a GPRS one--i.e., not even EDGE; on an iPhone, GPRS would be represented by a small rectangular dot instead of the "E" or "3G" symbol in the status bar IIRC).