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| Elephants and Anteaters.. apples to oranges to pineapples...
3g is not 3g...
Verizon's 3g is already at top speed and slower than at&t.. as their 3 g is different. at&T's 3 g is really 3.5g and will run up to 7.2megs as they they have been slowly building up their back haul to handle its rollout this fall. Something that is already build in.. Verizons 3g does not allow you to download spreadsheets while on a call, at&t's 3.5 g does that already. If you compare features at&t's 2.5 g is closer to verizons' technolgy other than its top speed. If you compare the 2.5g att map with verizons map, you will see that they are pretty much equal.. so that other than verizon being a bit faster, att has the same coverage area. If you then overlay the 3.5 g on top where you get 7.2 megs this fall and get 3.1 megs now with dual links, ie phone and data together, you see what verizon will have next year in roughly the same locations.. so yes.. apples to pineapples..
coverage... because att came from the old phone companies, back in the days of a and b carriers att did not have a footprint on the east or west coast and did not have the better 800mhz band that only one telco carrier and one non carrier could have. later when pcs bands opened up, third and fourth carriers could come in in the 1900 bands which suck when it comes to penitration of buildings... So the so-called-third and fourth carriers are at a huge disadvantage with the same amount of towers. This hurt att on the west and east coasts. Now that the 700 mhz auction is complete and with verizon buying altel. Verizon had to get rid of duplicate a and b bands and other carriers could then buy some of these bands. At&t did buy them and are deploying the 850 bands in the east and west coasts.
Again, apples to pineapples. Is the add fair?? Not really, as its taking at&t 3.5's deployment and comparing it to verizons 3.0 deployement without explanation. Is that important enough to prevail?? Why not compare the at&t 2.5g to verizons 3.0g.. After all, the 2.5g acts more like verizons 3.0g that has so many limitations. So its all in the name of the numbers?? What if at&t renames its 3.5g to 4.0g... then it puts it 8 months in front of verizon. again.. its all in the names. At&T picked the 3.5g early on becuase it was a better and more expandable technolgy till lte matures.
When at&T finally goes to lte, it will be more mature that what verizon has already deployed?? yes, but you can argue either way.
Whos right??
Verizon will make you buy a new handset more often, one could argue as a 3gs handset today will last longer. Is that important to those who want a new handset every 12 months??
Is the ad correct..
about as correct as comparing a 3year old elephant to a 3 year old anteater.. After all, both are "3" years
old.
I dont believe the anteater lives near as long, but he does eat ants and he's 3 years old. | |
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Williamsport, PA | sotbill, you can write a wall of text defending ATT, but it doesn't change the fact that Verizon has a much better data network than ATT does. In most places in the US, you can get much better data speeds from Verizon.
EDGE sucks, and yet most of ATT's towers support only EDGE.
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