AT&T Dumps Anti-Verizon Ad Campaign

😢 at&t fought back like a kid that had his pants pulled down in front of a whole school. 🤭 crying & throwing air punches. at&t dogged in the press and by their own cliental for network performance & Verizon just kept making light of that fact. 🤣

at&t might not have churned 20 mill but Verizon was a clear winner.

AT&T didn't dodge the press on anything. There's been announcements and all about the services being sub-par and the company pumping serious money into restoring the network. How is that dodging anything?

Verizon is like the playground bully and it's fanboys are the kids that stand behind it to throw the under-dogs back into the circle.

If AT&T wasn't such a threat, the commercials wouldn't exist, so obviously AT&T is doing something right.

Here's the difference though.. the Verizon commercials had humor backing them up, they weren't the "Now hold on a minute, I'm going to throw a whole bunch of iphone facts at you and say they are att facts"

Verizon made the commercials because of the Iphone, that's it. When I was a rep, you wouldn't believe how many people came in EVERY. FREAKING. DAY. mumbling about the Iphone, and asking why verizon didn't carry it. ATT activated more Iphones every quarter than they added total new subscribers, meaning that PHONE is the thing driving their numbers more than anything their network did.

If you look at Verizon's commercials, they're all basically saying "yes, you have a really cool phone... but where can you use it?"

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I thought at&t now was the same company that was cingular. Just using the at&t name. Please correct me if I'm wrong, been wrong once before.

They are the same company, because of the merger. But there used to be ATT and Cingular as two competing companies.

Cingular was in a bad spot before the merger. That's one of the reasons they agreed to the iphone deal. For how successful the iphone is now, there was no reason for a company to know this, and APPLE wanted A LOT for the deal, a lot more than companies with proven track records when it came to devices.

They couldn't have worked the iphone deal on the merger, the contract would have been voided as soon as the company legally became AT&T. All the "Cingular"s would have to have already been listed as AT&T.

Cingular technically is the host company, but stock and everything is still under AT&T brand legally. So that doesn't make sense, Apple could have walked out on the contract without any issues if that were the case.

No offense Menno... but you need to get your facts straight.

AT&T Wireless (1994 - 2004) was it's own separate entity. Yes it was bought out by AT&T (Ma Bell, the one notorious in the 80's) and in 2000 AT&T Wirless became it's own separate entity even from Ma Bell due to consolidation.

Cingular, which was a joint venture between SBC and Bell South aquired AT&T Wireless in 2004.

SBC purchased AT&T (the original Ma Bell) as well as Bell South in 2006 and technically all the above companies were now owned by SBC.

SBC knew more people/consumers would "want" to associate themselves with AT&T being a trusted and established name. Hence the company transitioned in the New AT&T and dropped their former names...

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"Ma Bell" ? Man you're old ;)

Tech geeks are not the only ones hearing about ATT's network problems. More and more Consumers are noticing/hearing of these issues and this has undoubtedly put ATT in a position to either put up or shut up.

The current events have not been working in ATT's favor. I commend ATT for pulling the plug on the ridiculous 3G coverage network war against VZW. This would only further throw themselves under the bus. I don't care much about ATT, but I do feel their ads on being able to talk and surf at the same time, are more compelling. It is something VZW can't do................Until the arrival of LTE.

It's true they are doing something right....being partnered with Apple's IPhone, Immagine what will happen this fall if it does come to Verizon, I too have had many ATT folks in the store, none of whom say anything nice about ATT, and the only tout I do hear is how cool the IPhone is.

With reguards to churn, we'll see how ATTs procrastination with 4G effects churn. I'm sure Sprint will market the HTC Evo 4G, and likely June of next year Vzn will have their first 4G smartphone. So 2011 will be a very, very interesting year.

There is no procrastination with 4G. Why roll out with a whole new G while LTE is successfully being developed? That's like buying a new computer when you know that in a few months more, huge breakthroughs will revolutionize the computer industry.

By the time stuff hits in 2011, LTE will prob. be marketable by end of 2012 or beginning of 2013, so why spend the money on 4G vs skipping straight to LTE a few months down the road?

I like how everybody assumes Sprint and Verizon are so "cool" cause they are going to 4G... LoL.

THEY DON"T HAVE A CHOICE!!!


Their networks cost too much to maintain and their pretty much tapped out on advancing the network!

If Verizon and Sprint integrate their current 3G network into their respective 4G, that means the slowest speeds available in 3 years will be 124 - 168 kbps (1xRTT)... on a 4G PHONE!!! Meanwhile, by continuing the evolution of their current 3G UMTS networks, AT&T and T-Mobile will offer the slowest speeds of 3.6 - 7.2 Mbps... and 3 years is a time table build out for 3.6 overlay of EDGE.

There is plenty of development left for EVDO. Verizon and Sprint are choosing not to go with it because eventually everyone will be 4g, so why waste money on a tech that they are going to replace anyway because Qualcomm, the company that develops CDMA threw their weight behind LTE (for patents) instead of UMB (the 4g tech developing from CDMA)

And verizon is using their 1xrtt network for VOICE, NOT for data. Verizon will have their entire native network covered with 4g data in a couple of years according to thier roadmap. So the slowest 4g phone will be stuck with (if in a roaming area) will be EVDO RevA which is 3.1

What of ATT? They'll have their current 3g network all 4g.. and the rest? they'll be stuck on edge, or at best 3.6...
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Apparently you have never seen Old School (which someone should know literally kick you in your balls for not seeing this movie)

justfinethanku said:
Dude...

I am going to be quoting you all day.

I love you.

rotflmao

Is there an app for shelters for battered subscribers? 😁

Slammer said:
Is there an app for shelters for battered subscribers? 😁

lol you guys are killing me. Maybe I was being a bit over-dramatic there.

I don't work in the industry but I just hate when people don't educate themselves on the options that are out there. Like simply buying an iPhone just because it's "trendy" you know. You should buy a phone along with a carrier that works for you.

Menno said:
I liked him in Idiocracy. I kept expecting him to say "ATT, it has what customers want" or "customers want electrolytes" that would've made that commercial instant win for me.

An instant win for you & me...the only two people on earth to see 'Idiocracy'.

I loved it.

Me too. Not only have I seen it (alot) but "it has what customer want" 🤣

Seriously, you can't tell me the premise of that movie isn't dead on. Literally, we watch it every day all day at work in the cell phone world. Common tech for morons. Worse than computers.

Great flick! I finally just gave in and bought it after renting it three times.

ecycled said:
Me too. Not only have I seen it (alot) but "it has what customer want" 🤣

Seriously, you can't tell me the premise of that movie isn't dead on. Literally, we watch it every day all day at work in the cell phone world. Common tech for morons. Worse than computers.

Just look at newsclips of teabaggers--if we aren't living Idiocracy right now, I don't know what we're doing.