[Newlug] Newlug Digest, Vol 53, Issue 18

[Bernard Starzewski]

AT&T misrepresents stuff?
Say it aint so!

AT&T = 2nd worst company in the world... After BP.

--- On Tue, 6/29/10, Don Funkhouser <cee_64 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Don Funkhouser <cee_64 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Newlug] Newlug Digest, Vol 53, Issue 18
> To: newlug at newlug.org
> Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 3:03 PM
> The problem isn't with Verizon, but
> with Apple.  Verizon uses CDMA while the only iPhones
> use GSM which are not compatible.  Until Apple releases
> a CDMA version of the iPhone you can only use one on
> AT&T and if you hack it T-Moble (at least here in the
> USA).  The USA's (and most of North America's) cellular
> service backbone is based on CDMA unlike Europe and Asia
> which is built upon GSM.  GSM needs it’s towers
> closer together than CDMA which is why Verizon works so much
> better over here than GSM does unless you are ina large
> metropolitan area like Chicago, New York, etc.  While
> AT&T claims coverage to a large segment of the
> population that is only due to the coverage of cities. 
> Verizon covers even more of the population and 10 times the
> actual coverage area than AT&T does.  AT&T
> grossly misrepresents it's coverage.
> 
> Don
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Brad Bingham" <bradb at advocap.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 1:29 PM
> To: <newlug at newlug.org>
> Subject: Re: [Newlug] Newlug Digest, Vol 53, Issue 18
> 
> > Hi group,
> > 
> > I just wanted to chime in on the discussion of
> phones.  I have been a Verizon
> > customer for a very long time having never had any
> problems with coverage.
> > I've traveled for business all over the country and
> have family in up the
> > mountains of the mountain west and my calls have
> always been clear as a bell
> > and never get dropped.
> > 
> > I do have a friend however, she uses AT&T and her
> calls sometimes are jumpled
> > up requiring a recall for a different line. Her call
> are often dropped in the
> > middle of our conversations all the time.
> > 
> > I was speaking with the Apple people thinking of
> getting a I-Phone, since I
> > had heard that Verizon and Apple were in negations on
> a new joint agreement
> > allowing use of the with the I-Phone and I-Pad. 
> The sales rep. I spoke with
> > told me those were just rumors and would require
> switching to AT&T for my
> > phone service if I wanted to use a I-Phone, giving me
> some technical hooey
> > about how Verizon was to slow and its networks
> outdated. I rather doubt it.
> > 
> > That being said, I think Android is what direction I'm
> considering for my
> > next phone since I can keep Verizon.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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