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dont blame your iphone, blame the carrier

AvgJoe

Aug 25, 2008, 4:25 PM
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tnt2k1

Aug 25, 2008, 4:28 PM
Naturally. Basically, the iPhone comes with a lot of hype as well as baggage. iPhone may have brought AT&T more unwanted bad publicity. The same could've been flipped to VZW if they chose to get the iPhone.

If you have such a premier product in your line up, the entire organization is going to be under the spotlight ready to be dissected, like Terrel Owens and whatever team he decides to poison.
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AvgJoe

Aug 25, 2008, 5:33 PM
Thats true.....

SO when a Toyota customer goes in for service he is unhapper than a Ford owner doing the same..

Its the same weh someone drops a call or cannot get a signal on Verizon......

Have to be careful what is hyped and what is real.
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davidmcguire

Aug 25, 2008, 4:35 PM
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bkw79

Aug 25, 2008, 6:38 PM
Don't blame the iphone, blame the carrier?

Is that why you get excellent reception with the other ATT 3G smartphones and 3G regular phones in the exact locations that the Iphone 3G is having 3G signal issues? That is obviously an Iphone 3G problem.
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dromant

Aug 25, 2008, 9:57 PM
Couldn't agree more. I know ATT's network is not the greatest, but the bottom line is that ATT did not have anywhere near the complaints when it launched other data-centric 3g devices in these areas, such as the Blackjack and Tilt. I was in the NYC area less than two months ago and had good to excellent reception with my Tilt almost everywhere I went. I would love to see someone perform some actual testing of devices - road test a 3g iPhone compared to some of ATT's other 3g devices to see how they perform.... I bet the results would be quite interesting.
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