Skeptical Ben

AT&T: The iPhone's Achilles' Heel

Exactly. AT&T iphone proponents, please state your geography. In Los Angeles, AT&T is horrible coverage, lots of dropped calls and dead zones. When I visited Spain, the iphone worked everywhere, all the time, including calling home to SoCal. Verizon is a much better network in Southern California, and apparently NYC area as well. Let's see, that's only about 30 million people, why build out those networks properly?


On Jul 19 10:56 PM David Bressler wrote:

> I agree with many of the comments about Verizon being expensive with
> poor customer service, but needed to put my vote in for the author.
>
>
> After breaking a t-mo contract to get an iphone last October, I had
> to go back because AT&T hardly functioned as a phone, and I felt
> like an a** for spending money on a 3G plan and always connecting
> at Edge, or worse speeds.
>
> For disclosure, I'm in NYC, and when I left NY, in particular in
> Florida, it worked brilliantly. But, it astounds me... I'm in New
> York Freakin' City, and I can't get inbound phone calls, or calls
> that don't drop? Crazy. And, no reason for voicemails to be delayed
> 12 or more hours before delivery. That has nothing to do with network
> robustness or speed. That's simply a failure.
>
> And, for those people who tell me I'm too picky, if I can get a T-mo
> phone connection, I can get an AT&T one... I can't get a T-mo
> signal where I live in NYC (Tribeca) either, but I have a phone that
> supports UMA, so from home, make all my calls over wifi with unlimited
> minutes for just $10/month. Without UMA, I'd have gone to Verizon.
>
>
> If Verizon get the iPhone, say hi to me. I'll be the guy camping
> out overnight at the front of the line.
>
> David