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 Mike_
join:2003-06-24
Fort Lauderdale, FL
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| Not suprised... Why am I not surprised at all? You really thought Verizon was going to be oh so better than att? VZ has always been restrictive since they started out, why would they ever change that?
As they say, grass is always greener on the other side. Hence if the iphone went on Verizon, this same "congestion", etc. would be present, and probably in return VZ would lock down even tighter.
You've got to realize att isn't doing all that bad with the iphone. Especially since 3g for gsm networks had to be completely redesigned by installing w-cdma equipment. Also realize that w-cdma HSPA runs everything, voice, text, and data. EVDO (VZ, Sprint) is DATA only, text and voice are on 1x portion of network. So imagine if text and voice were all on EVDO as well if the carriers had gone foward to Rev. B, congestion and reliability would more than likely be affected.
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 funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-11
Yarmouth Port, MA
kudos:5 | said by Mike_:As they say, grass is always greener on the other side. Hence if the iphone went on Verizon, this same "congestion", etc. would be present, and probably in return VZ would lock down even tighter. I'm not at all convinced that AT&T's problems are caused by iPhone's data usage. Even before the AT&T sales started, there was a collective groan caused by the most anticipated phone being locked onto the least robust network. Prior to the iPhone, the AT&T or Cingular networks were not known as the place for data or data devices. They had little to none in that arena. Verizon had a few generations of PDA devices. T-Mobile at least pretended to be a data network (there early, but they stayed slow).
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| said by funchords:I'm not at all convinced that AT&T's problems are caused by iPhone's data usage. Even before the AT&T sales started, there was a collective groan caused by the most anticipated phone being locked onto the least robust network. Prior to the iPhone, the AT&T or Cingular networks were not known as the place for data or data devices. They had little to none in that arena. Verizon had a few generations of PDA devices. T-Mobile at least pretended to be a data network (there early, but they stayed slow). You are kidding, right? Guess the Treo 650 I had on AT&T for 2 years prior to the iPone with a data plan was a figment of my imagination? Or the Sony Ericsson T637 that I had before that (with data) too? Or all those with Blackberries on AT&T? Or those with Win Mobile phones?
Please, AT&T has had data for a while. As did Cingular. Not super fast. But neither was Verizon's IS-95 data back in the day at a blistering 14.4k BPS if you were lucky. Yes, that's slower than dial up. On Verizon.
Verizon's 1X was slow for penetration as well and there are areas of the country that are still waiting for it.
Amazing how people think Verizon Wireless can do wrong and was always first and the best. | |
funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-11
Yarmouth Port, MA
kudos:5 | said by itguy05:Amazing how people think Verizon Wireless can do wrong and was always first and the best. I do know that experiences vary and they are very localized.
I'm probably just as much a PDA fan as you, and I regularly checked AT&T (pre-Cingular, which really didn't have good Portland offerings until just before the merger) and found them very disappointing.
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