AT and T you are killing me, I mean NYC, SF, Chitown, it doesn’t matter I am dropping calls in every area code. I am sorry to go sour but they are JUST Killing me! I miss you verizon. I really do! I wonder what you guys think?
I am dropping calls, calls, in different areeeeea codes, area codes.
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April 9th, 2008 at 12:19 am
You tell ‘em, Gary!
April 9th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Yes
April 9th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Hey GV, drop your iPhone and ATT, go back to your good old Verizon and grab a BlackBerry!
April 9th, 2008 at 12:20 am
ATT is droppin’ the balls cause GV is droppin calls yo.
I live in the upper peninsula of MI…..whats a cell phone?
April 9th, 2008 at 12:20 am
I’ve heard similar complaints earlier, but I’ve been using AT&T for years and have no complaints. Well, I do have a complain that they don’t carry Nokia’s N95 or N96, but that’s not service related.
My work phone is Verizon and that works great as well. Maybe I’m just lucky with cell phone services.
see you on twitter (@topicm)
April 9th, 2008 at 12:20 am
I have an iPhone too. In New Haven, CT the service is equal and sometimes better than Sprint, which I had previous. I haven’t traveled much with the iPhone yet, but I’ll be in NYC in a couple weeks, so we’ll see. Regardless, I’m all for calling out companies like AT and T when they aren’t delivering on their product, in this case being, service.
April 9th, 2008 at 12:21 am
You rant good, GV! Preach on, brother! Testify!
This does not bode well for my impending move to SF and purchase of an iPhone..
April 9th, 2008 at 12:21 am
“More bars… are you drinking?” I love that comment. ROTFL.
You.
Nailed.
It!
Speaking of multi-dimensional and being good @ more than 1 thing: Have you considered a career in comedy
April 9th, 2008 at 12:23 am
As you know I have an iPhone. And it is on AT&T. I do have dropped calls, here and there, but never as bad as a lot of people that don’t like AT&T say.
April 9th, 2008 at 12:23 am
I’ve got AT&T and the iPhone as well. I drop very few calls. I’m in South Jersey in the suburbs, so there are no big buildings in the way for the most part. Service is similar to the SprintPCS that I had before the iPhone, except that I get fabulous service in my home with AT&T. So I’m not to sad with AT&T.
April 9th, 2008 at 12:24 am
In Northeast Arkansas, Alltel is really the best choice, simply because Alltel started in Little Rock, so we have more towers here.
ATT not only drops calls here, but gives you crazy busy signals, and cuts off in .0003 seconds if the line your calling is busy (sometimes before you even hear the busy signal!)
Verizon seems to work great…for anyone VISITING Arkansas. The last I checked, we didn’t have any Verizon towers in Arkansas yet, and the closest one to me is in Memphis,TN.
Then again, I am in Arkansas, for heaven’s sake. Would you really expect ANYTHING tech to work correctly in THIS state?
April 9th, 2008 at 12:24 am
I had an iPhone for a while last summer but returned it and went back to my Verizon BlackBerry b/c the ATT service here was so terrible.
Mobile carriers aren’t the greatest for customer service, plans, etc by and large… but Verizon seems to be the best for those of us needing to GTD daily.
Great vid, Gary… keep it up!
Sam
April 9th, 2008 at 12:24 am
I would seriously love to get an iphone however I cannot part from Verizon. I need my phone for work and I can’t risk dropping calls. I have been polling my twitter network about AT&T and haven’t heard a good note yet. SAD!
April 9th, 2008 at 12:25 am
I had FLAWLESS service with Verizon. Then I picked up an iPhone and switched. Phoenix, AZ dropping calls all over the place. On my STAIRCASE in my HOUSE there is a DEADSPOT.
I am remorseful.
April 9th, 2008 at 12:25 am
Here in Dallas AT&T is perfect no dropped calls here or when I am SF no dropped calls there either. I usually never have dropped calls and I have been with AT&T when they were Cingular, and before that AT&T wireless.
April 9th, 2008 at 12:26 am
i didn’t go with the iphone because of at&t. i have sprint and my son has at&t. calling him is like playing a game of chance. his reception flawlessly sucks.
April 9th, 2008 at 12:27 am
LOL. Best line ever: “when you say bars, do you mean you’re drinking?”
I wish I had an iPhone, but Verizon rules.
April 9th, 2008 at 12:28 am
Gary, you gotta take keep tin foil AWAY from the antenna! Seriously though, I haven’t heard that it was this bad. I wish I had an iPhone to share my experience, but alas I have the iPod Touch.
I second what Abbi said. You certainly understand timing and are often hilarious in these videos. I could see a “Happy Hour with Garyvee” variety podcast someday! Haha! I would SO watch that.
Have you had your iPhone examined? You may have a bad antenna.
April 9th, 2008 at 12:28 am
Wow, actually, no. I’ve really had no problems with AT&T with either my Razr or N95 here in St Louis. I have heard that signal strength is one of the iPhone’s weak spots. I have a colleague that just got an iPhone and has used AT&T wireless for years. I’ll have to ask him if he notices any difference.
April 9th, 2008 at 12:28 am
I have dropped calls all the time here in Tallahassee, FL, with AT&T. My husband and I never know which one of our phones dropped the call, so we are always calling each other apologizing, and bitching. Side note - my iPhone sensor for when i’m talking is borked, so it hangs up on it’s own, all the time. Boooo all around!
April 9th, 2008 at 12:29 am
I feel your pain. I have over 100 mobile users all over the country with four different carriers (AT&T, T-Mobile, verizon & Sprint) and I will get users with the same problem on all four networks! Same friggin’ phone model, same area/region, vastly different experiences. Some LOVE AT&T, some LOVE Verizon (North East especially). Whatever.
I have noticed that the cells with WIFI such as the Blackberry Curve have been rock solid. We love how it switches to wifi automatically, thus saving minutes and getting better connection in most cases. All of the new models seem to have WIFI capability so that’s very nice.
By the way, our mobile network grid isn’t even in the top 10 in the world! What’s up with that? Can you do something about that, GV?
Pai
April 9th, 2008 at 12:29 am
I have a iPhone with AT&T I live in Lexington,KY and I rarely have a dropped call also been with AT&T for quite some time though all the it’s AT&T and now it’s Cingular and back to AT&T and so on that drove me nuts lol.
April 9th, 2008 at 12:30 am
I don’t know man… AT&T seems better for me than Sprint was. I mean, let’s be honest here, they ALL suck at one point or another. I think it really depends on where you’re at the most, etc.
I’ve never had a problem here in Seattle, or in SF. Austin, though, during SXSW was bad.
It does kind of suck that you are locked into AT&T, hopefully that’ll change soon though.
April 9th, 2008 at 12:30 am
Gary, I would LOVE to have an iPhone, but AT&T, forget the bars when your here is South Dakota, can you say no service, period!! I will stick with Verizon.
twitter @ITBYTES
April 9th, 2008 at 12:32 am
It’s not necessarily AT&T. it’s also the iphone, just doesn’t have the same reception as a lot of other cell phones that use AT&T
April 9th, 2008 at 12:34 am
thats odd… cause i have AT&T and i have never had a dropped call in any city.
April 9th, 2008 at 12:34 am
I live in the upper west side of manhattan and work in midtown. ..had the iPhone since launch and dropped maybe 4 calls total. I would bring the iPhone into and Apple Store. You might need a new sim card or a new phone all together.
April 9th, 2008 at 12:39 am
My iPhone drops a LOT more than my Nokia. So maybe it’s Apple’s fault!
April 9th, 2008 at 12:41 am
The reality is that the iPhone is an amazing device that happens to also have phone features.
I drop calls on AT&T all the time. I am getting hammered too. I am on an iPhone. I love the device, hate the phone service. Even iPhone to iPhone, AT&T to AT&T will drop calls all the time. Seriously, what is that about? Why?
April 9th, 2008 at 12:46 am
I have an iPhone and I drop calls here and there. From PA to FLA. You might want to see about having them … “AT&T” replace the sim card for you… that might help. I had a moto slvr before my iPhone and i was droping calls like crazy I had them replace the sim card and it worked fine after that.
April 9th, 2008 at 12:46 am
It’s the iPhone itself, not the AT&T network, in my humble opinion.
I’m on AT&T with an iPhone, which I love, but it’s a shaky phone. Great media device, questionable phone. I believe it’s the combination of antenna used and complex OS management.
Been with AT&T/Cingular for 4 years. My previous Nokia E62 dropped almost zero calls over an entire year of use, on the exact same network in the same location.
Best,
DJ
April 9th, 2008 at 12:46 am
Hysterical! I had this conversation today! My N95 on AT&T is just for Qik videos and it does prove that iPhone is the only reason that most of the Web 2.0 folks are on AT&T. The service sucks (except for 3G). I tried a few calls here and there, horrible. I’m sticking with Verizon and when a 3G iPhone comes out with 2.0 software, I’ll buy that and use it as a separate PDA/Play toy…
April 9th, 2008 at 12:47 am
Gary, it might be your iPhone
April 9th, 2008 at 12:48 am
I haven’t had any dropped calls on AT&T recently, but I don’t really talk on the phone anymore
April 9th, 2008 at 12:49 am
Sometimes your data connection kicks in while you’re talking on the phone and because the iPhone runs on GPRS/EDGE, it terminates the voice connection to obtain a data connection.Not saying that it is, but it could be.
If the phone was 3G, you won’t have this problem as it runs on a separate channel.
April 9th, 2008 at 12:49 am
I, too, used to be on Verizon and it was great but I changed for… you guessed it, the iPhone. I have far more dropped calls and bad service areas than I ever had before. To add insult to injury, ATT has screwed up my bill three times in a row… grr! Get it together ATT!
April 9th, 2008 at 12:51 am
If anyone would know about more “bars” in more places, it would have to be Garyvee
Still chuckling
@Adam Hirsch 3G iPhone not coming til end of summer and not what you think…
April 9th, 2008 at 12:56 am
I work in data support for AT&T currently. I would not use the service if I didn’t get it for free.
April 9th, 2008 at 1:07 am
Preach on brother.
Did you know that they don’t even sell the iPhone in Vermont, because there is absolutely no AT&T coverage in the ENTIRE STATE!! I don’t live in VT but spend a lot of time there.
There was nothing I wanted more than an iPhone, but saw my dreams crushed during the keynote when the big blue ball came on screen.
April 9th, 2008 at 1:08 am
shit has been dropping like crazy on my iphone in my local area code
April 9th, 2008 at 1:11 am
I’ve got AT&T and LOVE AT&T.
I wish that I was in a 3g zone, but I’ve had both an iPhone (sold it) and now have a BlackJack 2.. BOTH have excellent service.
Though, it could work better in rural areas where everyone ISN’T surfing the webs on their laptops using 3g.. just a though.
April 9th, 2008 at 1:26 am
I switched from sucky AT&T to Verizon (LOVE VERIZON), and in spite of my love of all things Apple, not even an iPhone will get me to go back.
April 9th, 2008 at 1:55 am
Same, man. AT&T is horrible. Dropped calls pretty much everywhere.
April 9th, 2008 at 2:03 am
GV, I have an iPhone, AT&T and just moved to SF from Seattle. It’s rare for me to have dropped calls. I do loose my bars, and my iPhone gets “stuck” without service. I have been rebooting the iPhone when I think it is stuck and I can get my bars back about half the time. Don’t know who is to blame for this one. Regardless, Apple nailed it so I am sticking with it.
Cheers.
April 9th, 2008 at 2:22 am
I don’t know if this is a common thing. But I had a friend who updated a ancient AT&T phone a couple months ago and started dropping calls like mad. In Seattle where he never dropped calls before.
Then just today, friend was telling me about the new AT&T phone she got last night, and how she drops calls at home where she never dropped before. In Seattle. She is going to try and change phones.
At least with those 2 people, updating their cells have hurt them quite a bit. Is getting the latest technology making phone calls drop through AT&T? That doesn’t even make sense…
April 9th, 2008 at 2:25 am
…and by the way. Both are not iPhones. And they both got different phones.
April 9th, 2008 at 2:28 am
My husband and I just switched from Nextel to AT&T and between the two of us we have a Blackberry Curve, Samsung Blackjack II and Moto Global Q9. The service has been consistently…well, consistent. Haven’t had a problem yet. Maybe it’s the iPhone? (I’m just saying that out of jealousy). I have heard exactly what you’ve said though, for what it’s worth.
@marlinex
April 9th, 2008 at 2:32 am
Yep I drop calls everyday here in Indianapolis. It is very frustrating to say the least. But like you said I luv my iPhone so much I really don’t think about it. Hopefully at&t will get there stuff together quickly.
April 9th, 2008 at 3:00 am
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April 9th, 2008 at 7:10 am
Blackberry on Verizon. It’s not perfect, but it works.
Blame Mr. Jobs for the exclusivity. He wanted to control every aspect of “his” phone and someone had to bite. It just happened to be the company with the worst network.
April 9th, 2008 at 7:29 am
Dude, I am dropping calls in my own NYC apartment. It’s ridiculous! My parents also live in the city and they have to stand by the window to make calls. My mom has a blackberry, my dad has an iPhone. These are supposed to be the high class phones, but they work worse than our old crappy T-mobiles!
April 9th, 2008 at 7:48 am
I dig AT&T and rarely have dropped calls. Granted I probably don’t use my phone as much as you but I’ve got no complaints.
April 9th, 2008 at 8:00 am
I do have a lot more dropped calls than I would expect. Like you, I switched from Verizon specifically for the iPhone and see a noticeable difference in the quality of their network. I don’t ever remember having a dropped call on Verizon, but I have several a week on AT&T. I hope they do something to fix the problem soon…
April 9th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Hey Gary,
I’ve been on ATT from the begining. Then it became Cingular and now back to ATT.
I don’t have any issues with my phone and I’ve traveled a lot. Back and forth on both coasts and in the middle of the country. Over 80,000 miles last year. Not much of an issue with dropped calls.
I don’t have an iPhone. I just have a simple cheap Pantech. It has been a great phone. I wonder if the dropped calls has to do more with the iPhone then the service. I’d be very curious.
This sounds like it could be a good Twitter conversation. It could shake things up.
April 9th, 2008 at 10:28 am
I think the problem is the iPhone and not the service. My Blackberry Curve has never dropped a call on AT&T.
April 9th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Soooo true. AT&T = “Less bars in more places”
April 9th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Just switched to ATT from Verizon cause Verizon won’t work in my house.
Which cell carrier sucks the most? Simple; whichever one you’re on right now.
April 9th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
I hear you Gary. My wife has at&t and has all sorts of problems in Los Angeles. I have T-mobile and drop calls even before the phone rings. Who rates these companies and allows them to make the claims they do with customer service, etc… Not acceptable. We need more people like you to tell them the real deal.
I love the line from T-mobile they tell me every time I call. Just turn the phone off and back on. Like I should do that everytime I want to make a call. Are they crazy!
April 9th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
I also have an iPhone that is dropping calls like crazy. Before the iPhone I had a cheap Cingular phone that never dropped calls.
I called some upper level tech at AT&T and they changed some settings that caused my phone to become more reliable. Unfortunately I recently started to experience the dropped calls again.
April 9th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
I’m in in the US, I’m not an iphone user even though the iphone is available in my country. Why? Because I think it’s too damn expensive!!! 1000 euros for the phone and the contract for 18 months, that’s too much for me. My last phone cost me 180 euros, so I’m ready yet to go from 180 to 1000…
About AT&T everything I’ve heard about it it was bad.
April 9th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
I have friends who switched from Verizon to AT&T and have noticed more dropped calls. My experience has been the opposite. It makes me think that the phone itself comes into play more than we’d expect. The two negatives that I found with Verizon was that their service is relatively expensive and that their customer service is absolutely horrible.
April 9th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
I started with AT&T wireless and it sucked. Then It went to Cingular and it was pretty bad too. Now back to AT&T I have not really had much of an issue. Maybe it is the iPhone?
April 9th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Go with Verizon and get the Moto Q9….I just got it and I love it! Smartphones are where its at…
April 9th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Plus….keep your iPhone too…Rumor has it that Verizon will be carrying iPhones on their network by late 2008/early 2009
April 9th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
I have AT&T and im not gonna lie, my cell service isnt too bad. I live in Houston, Tx and granted, i dont get a bit of service in the medical center, but other then that, its not too bad at all. Only thing Im disappointed with is their data service which claims to be 3G and yet I can only get Edge at best….and my phone can handle 3G.
When it comes to iPhone, i wont consider it until 3G is available….until then, Nokia e90 is my phone of choice.
April 9th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Verizon did me wrong a while ago, so I left them. In my mind, I was teaching them a lesson…but I learned my lesson when I was swayed to Sprint by a few friends. I don’t really have dropped calls, but there many places where I have close to no service. I really miss the good old days with Verizon!
April 9th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
I also have an iPhone and switch ed to AT&T from Sprint. Service is horrible. But on a positive note I have figured out the 5 places in my house that I can stand and talk on the phone. The good thing is I would rather communicate with people through Twitter and Messenger so the WiFI functions of my iPhone far outweigh the actual cellular and Edge (dare I say) capabilities.
April 9th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Doesn’t Verizon have their own iPhone?
April 9th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
I moved from Verizon to AT&T to get the Blackberry 8830 and access to the GPS for stuff like Google Maps and I have to say I miss Verizon too. I do not drop a lot of calls in Houston but the sound quality is not as good and I miss the EVDO broadband speeds. Sigh. Either it is Verizon disabling the GPS and with a small phone selection or it is AT&T with higher prices and less quality. Loose - Loose. We really need a change in the wireless companies.
April 10th, 2008 at 8:14 am
GV, I used to work for AT&T wireless and I had the service here in southern Cali…It was horrid!!! I dropped calls every 4 minutes and the only place you could get reception was under a tower while you were putting one hand in the air for reception…Go with your old carrier and travel..see the difference for yourself!
April 10th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Gary…..don’t hold back…..speak up as always.
For those stuck on iphone platform. Consider a back up pre-paid calling service that you can pre-program into your AT&T cell phone. You’ll save on international calls and always have a way to make calls.
……Can you hear me now? …..ok ….good
Brian
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April 10th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
I switched from TMobile and went with AT&T because of the iPhone that i got a few months ago. with my Tmobile phone i did have MUCH less dropped calls (i live in Chicago). it hasn’t been a significant amount but definitely noticeable.
the iPhone makes it worth it though. that is probably one of the best pieces of hardware i have ever purchased.
April 10th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Brutal. The iPhones in Cincinnati work fine, I use one for work, and have only had one dropped call, maybe I’m just good luck??
April 10th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Gary ever since ATT took over cingular, this has been a problem for me. Cingulars service was much better… Keep up the good fight brother…
April 11th, 2008 at 1:17 am
Sorry fanboys, but the iPhone sucks as a phone. The service on the phone is horrible. Four guys I work with all have the iPhone and I have the BlackBerry Curve (Nokia N95 before that). I get wonderful service in all parts of Las Vegas and they drop calls all over the place.
The issue is not with ATT, it is with the iPhone. It is a first gen phone, it sucks. It will do wonderful things for the phone market, but this one truly does suck.
April 11th, 2008 at 7:43 am
Ahhh, no IPhone for me - prefer a BlackBerry (Verizon, ack) and a RAZR via Cingular - UNTIL it was bought out by AT&T. Service went down after that… soooooo, let’s shop around.
R,
Cheri
April 11th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Sorry, Gary. All your bars, they be here. AT&T/Cingular/AT&T/NewNameNextWeek is the ONLY carrier that doesn’t have miles-wide dead zones here in Western NY. We tried Sprint, Verizon & T-Mobile before stumbling on AT&T, which works everywhere. Apparently, we have snuffled up everyone’s bars for our own use.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
YES. I knew AT&T was going to be an issue before I bought my iphone, and the fact that I would be married to that carrier was my biggest hesitation, but I did it anyway. So I am not as surprised as you are, but the service is a problem.
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April 11th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
I’ve had AT&T/Cingular/CellularOne for a long long LONG time now (8+ years) and never had a problem, except when i got my first GSM phone and went to school out in the middle of nowhere PA. In suburban Philladelphia, i get generally good reception. Now, still in school out in the middle of PA, i get even better reception than in the burbs.
April 11th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Big G, Had the IPHONE from day one. I left a very reliable Sprint for it. AT&T drops so many calls that I thought there was something wrong with my phone. I just got a new IPHONE and it’s the same thing. I hope Apple and AT&T do something soon or I’m going to.
April 11th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
I am the last person that would ever defend AT&T. Yuck! But come on, Gary. You have an iPhone..It’s not even 3rd generation yet! I have a 2G RAZR and I have yet to drop a call between Richmond VA and Warsaw VA population 1200 with AT&T. There aren”t even cell towers out there..just cows!
The iPhone is awesome sure enough, but most companies are working on 4G. Drop 40 bucks on a basic Samsung phone and you’ll be talking people’s heads off! The iPhone is great for pretty much everything but a phone (2G man come on!)
April 12th, 2008 at 3:06 am
I feel your pain GV!
Just wait until June/July when the new iPhone with the better technology comes out!
Hopefully, AT&T will have fixed it’s service then as well!
Always a pleasure watching/listening!
JOSE
April 13th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Weird, I got AT&T pay as you go phone, (not an Iphone) and I don’t get dropped much at all if ever. Now I don’t start a call unless I got 3 bars, so maybe that’s got something to do with it, but I haven’t had the prob in Berkeley, Oakland, Alameda or the bit of SF that I’m at.
April 13th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
that’s why i have verizon, even though i want an i-phone!!
April 15th, 2008 at 12:25 am
Absolutely brother. But in my case, it’s with their bloody broadband service. My problemed cable looks like a berry pie compared to the blunders of AT&T of late. Try calling them, you might find they have the “old” AT&T offices and the “new” AT&T. Truthfully, they don’t know there Ass from the back of their right hand. Sighh…
April 15th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
No. Have iPhone with ATT and I am fine!
April 17th, 2008 at 9:09 am
OMG..I have an AT&T Blackberry & work in midtown NYC & the reception just sux. When I’m not dropping calls the static & interference is so bad that it makes satellite phones in Iraq sound like HD radio. I can’t stand it. I mean I can totally understand if I was in uhh lets say Springfield NJ then yea you probably wouldn’t even get reception but midtown??? Come on…
April 17th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Honestly… I have yet to get a dropped call on my iPhone. I did however leave Sprint for AT&T and I thought Sprint was just better overall. Sprint seemed to have more coverage than AT&T, so thats the issue I struggle with. Now, I did go back to Sprint for broadband access (EVDO) - that totally rocks.
April 17th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
I’m a long time Tmobile customer - since the Voicestream days. I have been pretty happy with it. I drop a call about once every 2 weeks maybe, and most of the time it’s because I forget about a couple small dead spots near my office. The only problem I see on the horizon is that the soon to be live Tmobile 3G network will not work with my newly purchased N95-4 as it’s a diff band. Not sure if I really care right now, Qik seems to be working just fine without it anyway.
@k00k me and watch my Qiks
April 17th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
If all of the carriers used one standard like they do overseas we wouldn’t have such spotty coverage.
April 17th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
I grew up on Long Island and worked in Manhattan for quite some time using Verizon. It the same as anywhere else. There are good spots and there are dead spots. Just because it’s a big metropolis you’d think that the cell providers could provide some decent coverage to a highly dense location. Truth is they can’t. Real Estate is costly and there’s lots of competition for signal.
Being out in the west coast I live in a valley… its even worse here. Limited cell towers can’t cover the landscape when there are hills in the way.
Truth be told each cell provider has their strengths and weeknesses in different areas. “Least dropped calls” is relatvie. It just means they “suck less” than some of the other providers. But “More bars?”. I agree, that’s a joke.
But kudos to Apple. I won’t give up my iPhone regardless.
——–
SoCalDaveL on Twitter
April 17th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
I have AT&T and use a Blackberry Curve. I travel frequently and my service drops in downtown Houston, Austin, D.C., NY, SF…it is really frustrating. Most of the time, I have no bars in ALL places
April 17th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
ATT is horrible. I have the iPhone and I drop calls practically everyday from my apartment in Manhattan… I wish they would fix whatever they need too because their service is pretty poor.
April 17th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Well AT&T did drop the “fewest dropped calls” ad campaign back around summer of 2007 I guess now you know why..I dropped AT&T well before that.
With that said.. maybe when AT&T says “more bars in more places” they really do mean bars….bars with wired payphones and happy hours…where you can actually make a phone call..you know..a new retro movement kind-a thing ..Get wired baby..
Oh well..keep ‘em honest Gary.!
April 17th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
I’ve been very please wit AT&T here in Chicago. I switched from Sprint who was getting worse each year. I switched specifically for the iPhone, but I had a Razr until last November when I lost it. That was when I got the iPhone.
BTW, is Gary in an examination room? Hmmm, I think there’s an additional message he’s sending AT&T about where he’s taking it on the dropped calls
And if so, what is he using to make the vid. Maybe a Flip?
April 17th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
I have had AT&T/Cingular/AT&T for about 9 years. I have a plan with unlimted everything (minutes, text messaging, data). My phone is permanently attached to me and I am talking all day. I have very very rarely ever had a dropped call. If I get one a month that would be a lot. I live in Delaware, but I do not use an iphone. Maybe that’s the difference?? Maybe Santa GaryVee should give some of those away and I will sample it with my same service and let you know?? Haha. J/K.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:05 pm
I have had Verizon since last October, and am not happy with the call quality or their coverage. I get lots of dropped calls and dropped data calls in EVDO, and absolutely NOTHING works in 1X. Roaming is a joke. Free. Sure. And cannot be done. Got a Pink Razr, s’posed to be a cool phone, but it really is NOT “all that”. In fact I find it to be relatively featureless compared to other phones I have had. They have this so called guarantee. Several techs have told me the problem is my device. They promise every time I call to own the problem and fix it. But they have so far refused to either replace the device or fix the problem. The data rates are much higher and coverage map is much lamer than ATT. I think you might want to try a different device and stay with ATT, because if I was not in this contract, I surely would have dumped Verizon already.
April 27th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
AT&T’s coverage in Charleston, SC is poor. Though the iPhone doesn’t make it any better—my Sony Ericsson did get a decent AT&T signal at my house, on the iPhone it can only hold a call in one or two parts of the house. Regardless, the coverage is definitely bad enough to be aggravating.
April 28th, 2008 at 1:19 am
I left Sprint, whose service I was very happy with for most of the 9 years I was with them, to get an iPhone with AT&T. I love the iphone, but AT&T’s service is the pits. I’m averaging like 3 to 10 dropped calls a day. The signal strength could be reading 5 bars and the calls still drop. I am so tired of hearing, “I can’t hear you, you’re breaking up”; “Is there something wrong with your phone?”; “Where are you, are you there?”; “Tom?, Tom?, Tom?, where did you go?”, *crackle, crackle, crackle.” *beep beep beep*, *silence*. *Call Failed*
This never happened to me with Sprint. The call quality was as good as my land line phone. With AT&T, even when I have a fairly good connection, I hear background noise and hissing; even the ringing is warbly. Come on, AT&T, fix this!
April 28th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
I left Sprint, whose service I was very happy with for most of the 9 years I was with them, to get an iPhone with AT&T. I love the iphone, but AT&T’s service is the pits. I’m averaging like 3 to 10 dropped calls a day. The signal strength could be reading 5 bars and the calls still drop. I am so tired of hearing, “I can’t hear you, you’re breaking up”; “Is there something wrong with your phone?”; “Where are you, are you there?”; “Tom?, Tom?, Tom?, where did you go?”, *crackle, crackle, crackle.” *beep beep beep*, *silence*. *Call Failed*
This never happened to me with Sprint. The call quality was as good as my land line phone. With AT&T, even when I have a fairly good connection, I hear background noise and hissing; even the ringing is warbly. Come on, AT&T, fix this!
May 7th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Go with T-Mobile. You can use the iPhone with them and I never have any service issues.