Commercial Overload

I don’t know about you, but I am getting very tired of the AT&T and Verizon ad wars. If you don’t know what I am talking about, let me fill you in.

It goes something like this:

Verizon: “We have tons more 3G coverage than you and we are going to flaunt it because you have the iPhone and we don’t, so there.”

AT&T: “We have tons of data coverage too….. in our own special way. Oh oh, and we have the fastest 3G network…… in the 3 or 4 places were we have 3G at all.”

Verizon: “Haha, your map sucks.”

AT&T: “DOES NOT!”

Verizon: “Oh, I’m afraid it does.”

AT&T: “Well…… everything you said is actually true, but we are going to sue you anyway because we don’t like you pointing out our deficiencies. OH OH, I just remembered something. You can talk on the phone and use data on our network at the same time. Can you do that on yours? Huh? Can you? Why don’t you pull out your iPhone and try it? Oh wait, you don’t have one.”

Verizon: “…..SHUT UP!”

AT&T: “YOU SHUT UP!”

And so forth.

As someone who uses the data plan on both networks, I can honestly say that in my area Verizon is way ahead of AT&T. Everywhere I go, I get 3G with Verizon. I can count on one hand the number of times I have been able to use 3G on AT&T. Usually, I’m stuck with their Edge data service, which I think got the name Edge because it skirts the edge of actually being useful, but mostly falls short. But even on such a craptacular network, the iPhone still rules. Most of the time, I use the built-in wifi and connect my iPhone to my Verizon access point so that I can have my cake and eat it to.  Mmmmmm, cake.

Filed under: Humor, Rants by yellowjeep
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