Comments on: AT&T Responds To Verizon With EDGE Coverage?

By: Don

Don — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:56:43 +0000

On Friday I had NO internet access on my iPhone 3G over the 3G network but when switching to EDGE, had full access. Calls still worked as did texts on 3G but nothing internet related would work at all. Not even the APP store! After a few hours of trying and failing the 3G internet finally worked again. Suburbs of Baltimore, MD area here. Wondering if any one else experienced the same problem.

And yes, I do expereince dropped calls where the call drops and when the screen comes back on I appear to have 5 full bars of coverage. Dosent happen daily but does happen, mostly when in a moving vehicle.

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:32:16 +0000

I have an LG Xenon GR500 and I have found that call reception is no different on either Edge or 3G, but since I turned off 3G, my battery life is almost double!

By: Smarty pants

Smarty pants — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:54:48 +0000

look at this about verizon and at&t.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/verizon_talks_end_atts_iphone_monopoly

By: Smarty pants

Smarty pants — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:41:36 +0000

You know there is a tutorial somewhere (I think its Maximum PC) where you can make the iPhone over to verizon. (So I was told) Never looked into it.

By: Scott Salbo

Scott Salbo — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:02:23 +0000

When I read these stories about AT&T’s 3G coverage and dropped calls, I alway wonder: “where in he’ll do these peaple live? I have an iPhone since it was 1st introduced, had AT&T/Cingulat for 7 years prior to that, and use my cell extensively for work. In all that time, I’ve never had a dropped call. And I text about 1300 times a month (50% work related) and almost never experience text lag.

So again, I ask, where in he’ll do you people live? And what makes you think Verizon’s network won’t take a hit from the heavy iPhone network usage?

By: David Banther

David Banther — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:18:05 +0000

I have the iPhone 3GS and I keep it on EDGE. I live in Tampa Bay, usually getting full 3G signal, but will have trouble receiving calls. I have had this issue on all AT&T 3G phones. So funny that I carry around my 3GS and rely on EDGE, but I do!

By: savedR

savedR — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:49:45 +0000

Hahahaha, EDGE. I pulled down this webpage over EDGE on an iPhone 3G just now and timed it; with 4 bars of signal, it took THREE MINUTES.

By: JonathanPDX

JonathanPDX — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:03:00 +0000

Sadly, I had to go with AT&T (Antique Telephone & Telegraph?) as I wanted an iPhone as well…not necessarily for the telephone aspect of it, but other usability features.

What gets me are these ridiculous “contracts” that you need to agree to to get their service. That immediately tells me that something is wrong with them and their service and that people tend to jump ship before that period is up requiring the need to “lock” their users in. Either that, or it’s such a ridiculously lucrative profit-making scheme that the Fed has not yet cracked down on.

Add to that the insult of “minutes”. I can get an unlimited data plan for $30 a month, but can only talk for 500 minutes a month and it costs $50? Please.

Then to add injury to that insult, you pay for so many minutes and amazingly, if you don’t use those minutes they “vanish” forever. Notwithstanding AT&T’s “rollover” minutes, it’s a big windfall for the cell companies. Someone’s raking in the bucks and the public hasn’t woken to the fact that their money is being vacuumed up and they’re getting the proverbial shaft.

By: Curtis Matthews

Curtis Matthews — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:18:45 +0000

I agree with you. I have sold cell phones since 1986 for all the major wireless carriers and I have gone through the good and bad. AT&T coverage with 3G is a joke the Verizon ads are true. My Verizon phone always has 3G coverage in South Florida but my AT&T phone drops calls and has bad coverage in 3G. I sell AT&T services now and wished they would change back to the old days with Bellsouth Mobility which had the best network.

By: Brad

Brad — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:18:24 +0000

Lol, well AT&T has to respond to the advertising as it very well could mean that it will lose lots of customers.

Plus Verizon isn’t playing completly fairly.