AT&T Publishes Public Letter Refuting Verizon Wireless Ads
Verizon Is Also Lying About Sprint's 3G Coverage
Slammer said:
How is Verizon lying about Sprint's coverage? I haven't seen or heard any commercials or comments against Sprint.
Check their website. The Sprint map on Verizon's website is not the same as the Sprint 3G map on Sprint's site.
So they're not lying about Sprint's 3g coverage map, but they are also choosing not to antagonize Sprint in any of the commercials. I'm sure if they were going after Sprint like they are AT&T, Sprint would be suing, and they would actually have a legitimate claim because of roaming agreements with Verizon that provide 3g coverage.
Like I said, I could be wrong but that is a very educated guess.
Verizon is claiming roaming partners coverage as their own native coverage because the map is all red. Sprint, T-Mobile and AT&T show different colors to show consumers the differences in signal strength as well as roaming partner coverage. Verizon just paints it all red. At this point there are no EVDO roaming agreements between CDMA carriers now that Verizon owns Alltel.
What makes Verizon's claims the worst is that they know the information is misleading but because they spend more on TV ads than the other 3 big carriers combined there is not anyone out there really going after VZW.
AT&T has the iPhone, VZW has their enormous ad budget. Without both they would be in much worse shape.
But this of course is actually false because Verizon does provide roaming coverage for Sprint, especially in former Alltel areas where it is mandated by the government as part of the terms and conditions for the Alltel purchase that Verizon keep those roaming agreements available.
If you truly feel Verizon is only as successful as it is due to it's ad budget, you're clearly just biased against the company. Each company is in business because they are run by professionals that know what they are doing. Sprint is trying to bounce back from a poor decision to buy Nextel. It was a sho...
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The theme of this entire thread is the disingenuity of Verizon in their advertisements. This disingenuity is not being owned up to at all or defended adequately. Because deception is deception and when it is on the scale of this lie it becomes a major concern because of the negative effects it can have on the competition. If the coverage were claimed as apples to apples, EVDO to HSPA then there would be no problem. The ad misrepresents AT&T's coverage by implication which however you slice it is an intentional deception, maybe not legally but ethically. Do people want to do bu...
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Currently Verizon Wireless reports it's 1xrtt coverage (voice and text) separately from it's EVDO (3G) coverage. If you compare the advertised maps to the EVDO coverage map you will see they are the same.
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/CoverageLocatorCo ... »
VCAST and Broadband are the services that operate on Verizon's EVDO or 3G network. If you don't have EVDO, you can't use either service.
Here is another excellent article from Engadget that addresses the 1xrtt claim as 3G issue.
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/11/1 »
In the end... Verizon Wireless is NOT including 1xrtt as 3g. Pleas...
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When the original 3G spec was agreed upon 1XRTT or CDMA 2000 as it was called then met the spec. So from that perspective it is true regardless of what engadget says.
My comment was more about lying about AT&T coverage by implica...
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