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AT&T Loses First Legal Battle Against Verizon

Posted by Soulskill on from the is-there-an-app-for-that dept.

FutureDomain writes "A federal judge in Atlanta has declined a restraining order from AT&T that would have prevented Verizon from running ads that compared their 3G coverage to AT&T's. AT&T felt that Verizon's ads 'mislead consumers into thinking that AT&T doesn't offer wireless service in large portions of the country, which is clearly not the case.' Verizon argued that the ads clearly indicated that the maps were only of 3G coverage, and that AT&T is only suing because it doesn't want to face the truth about its network."

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  1. Re:Surprised? by ElSupreme · · Score: 5, Interesting

    More != Better.

    Verizon's EVDO CDMA '3G' network is much slower than the HSDPA GSM '3G' that ATT has.
    Becides Edge is in the '3G' spec, so it should be '3G' too.

    The real problem is that '3G' is 100% meaningless. We should get maximum working bandwidths, then compare them.

    And I really hate Verizon, and dislike ATT. I use T-Mobile. They have worse coverage, but so much better customer service!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_device_bandwidths#Mobile_telephone_interfaces
    EVDO revA is what Verizon is advertizing. HSDPA is what ATT has. Edge is also technically in the '3G' spec, and well should be shown in the Verizon ads. But honestly 3G doesn't mean shit.

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  2. Re:Surprised? by commodore64_love · · Score: 3, Interesting

    >>>Verizon's EVDO CDMA '3G' network is much slower than the HSDPA GSM '3G' that ATT has

    Upon what data do you draw this conclusion? (just curious)

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  3. Re:Misleading Ads Against the Rules? by MBGMorden · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Otherwise they would sell fully unlimited packages, . . . . when what they really meant was 400minutes

    They already do that with data. Virtually every cell carrier has unlimited* data.

    * Not to exceed 5GB per month.

    It'd be like advertising health salt-free* potato chips and everyone just accepting it without griping. Cell phone advertisers and companies these days are border line con-men.

    * Excepting salt added for flavor.

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