My calls drop on a regular friggin' basis - Love love love the iPhone, but Hate, hate HATE AT&T's coverage...

I live in a 3G-covered area, and I don't travel much, so what do I care if Verizon have a 3G signal under a rock in the middle of a field in Podunk, IN where AT&T can only offer 2G?

That's not to defend ATT - all cell carriers are as bad as each other, IMHO. Not one of them cares about the customer..

I can honestly say when I had my iPhone I never dropped one call. That being said, I got rid of my iPhone because of the ridiculous pricing (the wife got an iPhone and we couldn't afford 2, so guess who lost theirs). At&t's new move to require a $30 data package with every Smartphone is just plain crazy! I know the iPhone has always carried a mandatory data package of $30, but at the time when it was the only phone that required that I still thought it was crazy. Now anything classed as a Smartphone as of September 10 requires a mandatory $30 data charge. I should be able to choose whichever phone I was and pay for whatever services I want, I don't like the fact that the company selling me the product forces me to buy something I don't need.

Where I live At&t's coverage compares to it's competitors. At&t's policies on the other hand....

alleges, "I'm rubber, you're glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks on you"

Hmmm... maybe the people that live under a rock in Podunk? Good thing you have good service though. That is what matters.

Verizon has always said it has great coverage, but the maps are always misleading. I used to have Verizon, and I lived in the red on their map, but didn't get 3G. It's like they put in the theoretical max coverage, not the actual coverage.

I've been much happier with at&t's coverage. It shouldn't be hard for at&t to go verify some of the areas with a phone.

What should happen now is to have SPRINT run the same commercial showing their 3G verse AT&T's Map too.

That will make AT&T p*** a Brick of SHAME!!!

because this map is accurate. My 16GB iPhone is now an iPod- that cost me $500 after cancelation fees. I blame Apple AND at&t. Apple has no ethical reason to continue this partnership.

I got on ATT over a year ago with a RAZR. Had great reception, never a dropped call (that I can recall, if it happened it did so extremely rarely).

Switched to an iPhone in September. Call drops increased all of a sudden. Certainly makes one wonder how much the iPhone is at fault on some of this.

The real problem is that att has 3 different networks. GPRS, EDGE, and 3G. 3G being the fast golden child of the network, EDGE being the much moaned about, but still quite fast itself stepchild, and GPRS which is slower, but comparatively it's still not too bad.

I say comparitively, because the only network vzw has is its 3G network, it has nothing else aside from 1x, which is all most useless for anything aside from texting.

Vzw conveniently exclude the facts that it not only has this limited network spread thin over a large area, with people on the edge of reception effectively having no data service at all, but you also cannot use voice and data at the same time. I was on the phone with my girlfriend earlier, she didn't believe something i was saying, so i took a photo w/ my phone and sent it to her via MMS while we were talking, took about 5 seconds to get there too, can the droid do that? Not with evdo/cdma.

I mean what att should do is say "yes vzw this is our HSPA/3G coverage area, and this is our EDGE coverage area, and this is our GPRS coverage area. Then compare speeds with both usb/cards then phones.. Pretty sure they would win major points w/ consumers & advocacy groups, because not only is it more accurate than vzw's ads, but it shows that while it's fine to tout 3G, if all you have is limited speed & use 3G, you shouldn't brag about it.

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