AT&T To Court: Please Make Verizon Stop!

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I hope the court fines AT&T for wasting the courts time with a baseless lawsuit when it is clear that Verizon is only advertising the facts, even if it is presented in a way that puts down AT&T.
 
While I agree that AT&T could shrivel up and blow away as far as I care, Verizon is getting away with an utter and complete lie here. I live in one of those huge swaths of "3G" that they claim. There is NO 3G here. There never has been. A Verizon phone in this area yields 1X EVDO anywhere within 25 miles of the keyboard I am typing on. They are either using a VERY liberal interpretation of 3G or simply lying. It appears to me that they are calling any cellular tower upon which they can receive or transmit a phone call "3G". I believe that Verizon has a LOT more 3G coverage than AT&T, but I also think their map is highly inaccurate. I'm not talking about my house sitting in the blue area and not getting 3G... I'm talking about something between 50 and 100 square miles of "Verizon is lying".
 
You didn't see Microsoft take its toys and go home when Apple started their negative 'mac vs pc' ads. They stepped up their game and hit back with the price and flexibility advantage of PCs. AT&T, if they had any justification to say that Verizon is being deceptive, needs to just step up and hit back with whatever it is that they are better at. At the moment, the only thing going for them is their iPhone; their 3G network sucks, their voice network sucks, and their prices aren't competitive enough to differentiate themselves.

Go ahead, AT&T, ride the iPhone craze til it comes to a complete stop; other networks and handset makers are busy innovating you into oblivion.
 
AT&T doesn't really expect to win this, they just want to hold it up in litigation until after the hoilidays so it won't be air'd.
 
AT&T doesn't really expect to win this. They are just trying to hold it up in litigation so it doen't air over the holidays.
 
I love how AT&T tries to clearify their lack of coverage by population... The fact is that Verizon's commerical is regarding geographical area and is therefore truthful.

Besides AT&T I would like my phone to continue to work outside of major population centers...hell thats when it needs to work the most.
 
[citation][nom]gravitygirl[/nom]Unfortunately almost all advertising is misleading. And perhaps the U.S. will have to take a page from Europe's advertising playbook to avoid all the wasted time and effort arguing about things like this. Someone in EU correct me if I'm wrong, but I do EU ad laws disallow a company comparing their product to another company? So EU companies are allowed to toot their own horn but are not allowed to say they are better than 'X'. is that true in EU?[/citation]

Since you ask maybe I can enlighten you 😛

In EU this commercial can air just like it is. Comparisons that are based on objective indisputable facts like f.e.
For mobile carriers: area coverage, population coverage
For cars: Liters of engine, horsepower, torque, gallons per mile, CO2 emissions number of airbags
are OK.
In fact we have commercials like this in my Country but I don't know if that applies to all countries of EU since countries have some degrees of freedom to adapt the legislation, just like the states of USA.
 
Does everyone always believe everything they see on TV? Almost every single post on this form is borne of complete ignorance. The only person who knew what they were talking about was intesx. It's simply a manipulation of what AT&T calls 3G and what Verizon calls 3G. Verizon's 3G data is actually a lot closer to what AT&T calls 2.5G or EDGE, which they conviently left off AT&T's map. The parts of the map that they did show is what AT&T calls 3G, but is technicall 3.5G/HDSPA, which is faster than Verizons data services. The whole reason for these Verizon-bashing-commercials is because AT&T is way ahead of Verizon in the acquisision of new line activations, which by far the most important source of revenue for wireless. And, yes, iphone is a big part of it. Either way, Verizon also hopes this will confuse people who don't know anything about cell phones. Needless to say it worked.
 
For those yapping about the bias of Verizon definition of 3G, don't you think AT&T's lawyers would sue on that point too if they thought it was a valid argument? Or, at the very least, don't you think they'd avoid saying something like, ohidunno, "It's true that Verizon literally has 5x more 3G coverage than we do on a square mile basis"? I mean seriously, people.
 
When you can't compete, litigate. You can only hope it will be cheaper in the end than actually investing in infrastructure so your competition can't use this as an argument as to why their service is better than yours.

AT&T should either shut up or put their money where their mouth is. Hell, they are already behind rolling out 4G WiMAX, and other companies (ie, clearwire) have already got a lead-time advantage on them. In fact, all the current carriers should be careful. Resting on their laurels will eventually lose them customers as faster and better data transfer methods become available.
 
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