I have some friends who work for AT&T, and they have T-Mobile phones, because in our area T-Mobile has excellent coverage around the city (as good as Verizon, and better than Sprint or AT&T). Verizon still has the best rural coverage, but at least for here T-Mobile's a good choice. Actually so is Alltel, but Verizon's taking over their towers soon...
-Anyway, at least where I live, AT&T coverage is a joke, and it bothered me to see Izzy diss T-Mobile's coverage, which is clearly superior. So, I went online and tried to dig for info to support a "Nuht, uh, T-Mobile is good" claim, and all I found was that T-Mobile scored 2nd on the consumer reports run recently. Specifics were pretty fucking terrible, and I couldn't make a strong argument.
This is a problem. We really need a reputable consumer advocate to step-up, and give us some solid statistics about wireless coverage, and service. Right now, everything's so freaking ambiguous, and the data so subjective, its fucking pathetic. The low reaching studies, and worthless complaint sites we have now just don't work. We don't even have a website that can show the Service Provider's coverage maps overlayed on top of each other with filters. No, nothing. Its a fucking joke.
Guess I just got frustrated and had to vent, but I'm sick of having to tell customer's asking about phones: "Verizon has the best coverage, T-Mobile is pretty good, Sprint is OK, and AT&T isn't so good", and having absolutely no evidence to backup anything I say. "Really, why?" "uhm, I'm just going off of trends, and things I've heard from other users. People I know with AT&T seem to get a lot of dropped calls" "Do they get dropped calls under Sprint?" "Uhm... well... I don't have enough users on Sprint to say for sure."
If someone makes a website dedicated to this, I could see it being profitable enough to quit their day job. I can't be the only person frustrated with available information. So there you have it... I can't even make fun of AT&T's app. I don't have enough evidence to laugh at them.