Survey: 34% Of AT&T's iPhone Customers Waiting For Another iPhone Carrier To Upgrade
Survey: 34% Of AT&T's iPhone Customers Waiting For Another iPhone Carrier To Upgrade
In the past few quarters, AT&T has seen a significant chunk of its revenues come from the sale of iPhones in the US. Though the company's CEO Ralph de la Vega has insisted that an end to iPhone exclusivity is not a big deal and that the company would continue...
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first.... boooya
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NO way, honestly ATT has faster and better service in New York City..
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i am not one of the 34% im stayimg with at&t
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Good luck w/ u receiving calls while using data! Hit and miss w/ heavy data usage. I'm sticking w/ AT&T, plus data speeds are much faster than both CDMA carriers!
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I'm sticking with AT&T. Let the other users leave and cut down on the traffic. Also verizon has not seen the kind of 3G traffic a million iPhone users can put on a network.
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Funny thing didn't they just post a study on this website a week or two ago that showed the amount of data usage compared between networks and verizon already far exceeded any of the others including AT&T and you don't hear verizon customers bitching about their service. I really doubt a few iPhones os gonna make that much of an impact
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Good luck with that one Billy! Verizon has not seen the type of bandwidth that iphone would bring. I would say give it to sprint before Verizon.
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I need to use my phone outside of the U.S. That won't work with a Verizon phone. I'm not leaving AT&T.
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They keep saying January but when is AT&Ts exclusivity done? It would not make sense to release it in January when new models are realeased in June. Wouldn't most just hold out? The only way I see this happening is if they release a new design. They used micro sim to save space so I'm not sure how CDMA chips would affect their interior layout. Does it take up more room than microsims? If so would they have to change something on the phone?
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They keep saying January but when is AT&Ts exclusivity done? It would not make sense to release it in January when new models are realeased in June. Wouldn't most just hold out? The only way I see this happening is if they release a new design. They used micro sim to save space so I'm not sure how CDMA chips would affect their interior layout. Does it take up more room than microsims? If so would they have to change something on the phone?
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I believe there was a post earlier on here that had a rumor about a small redesign. Where the back isn't glass anymore and the antenna integrated to metal back.
It doesn't mean anything that Verizon has the largest data usage... The key point here is the increase you'll see from the introduction of the iphone. There was a report about iphone users using 5x more data than the average smartphone. So if Verizon's capacity is relatively close to the max, then the increase from millions of iphones using 5x more data will bog the network down. Not saying it will, but I wouldn't doubt this just because they have the largest data usage network.
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Telus mobility in Canada has had the CDMA iphone for a long time now. Rodgers is the GSM iphone carrier in Canada.
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I was a VZW customer for over a decade and switched to ATT well before I became an iPhone user.
I got sick of the spotty coverage, flakey network (most highly publicized "Blackberry outages" were actually VZ outages), no simultaneous data and voice limitation (on a smart phone, seriously?), and absolutely horrible customer service - they screw up your bill, again? Good luck with that.
So, for my "grass is always greener" friends, have fun and see you back in a couple years.
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u have this site confused with some pro verizon propaganda. verizon has not ever seen the amount of data usage iphone users put out but they will one day lol
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im sticking with AT&T feel free to go to verizon love to see all the posts about how much higher ur bill is every month
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Screw ATT, I would buy two iphone with Tmobile, maybe even three. One just in-case i lose one of them. Up yours ATT.
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I like knowing there are people who enjoy TMobile,we had it for 5 years and here in St.Louis,MO the 3g signal is a freaking joke,the worst signal in ground floors and the worst EDGE/3G fluctuation,to the point that my emails got stuck until erase.
I would never recommend Tmobile,so far I am loving AT&T,I have signal in no man's land. -
I completely agree. So far the only place I've had no signal at all is between two mountains in desert country on my way to a casino.
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I love AT&T, it works great for me but I wouldn't mind unlocking an iphone 4 and throwing it on metro PCS or Boost Mobile with unlimted text, talk, and web for $50. My AT&T bill is rather expensive :(
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I just love it when people say 'the type of bandwidth", as if a kilobyte from an iphone differs from a kilobyte from any other smart phone.
Yes, in 2005 no carrier's infrastructure was built to handle that type of stress on their network. Today, in an industry where smart phones are prevalent and basically a standard, every major network can handle an iPhone. This especially holds true for a corporation like Verizon, which has an array of smart phone products that, according to studies, far exceed the data demands than any other.
AT&T decided to play Russian Roulette by not allocating enough of its massive revenue gains towards expanding and strengthening their network early on, and now they are paying the price. Every other carrier has the benefit of learning from AT&T's mistakes.
That means: if you have AT&T and you plan to stay, the only major benefit you will see is less calls dropped that shouldn't have been dropped in the first place. As far as the 'no data while making a call line'; (assuming speculation is true) the 2011 released iPhone will likely be on Verizon's LTE network, which will not have the disadvantages of its predecessors.
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i've put off upgrading to the i4 and just waiting for my contract to end and then see what is out there. i love my iphone 3g but hate att service. i drop calls while i'm dialing out. wth.
if verizon doesn't get the iphone..i might have to consider going droid. missing calls and dropping calls probably 7/10 times is not acceptable.
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Me neither, I am NOT one of those 34% of unloyalw people.
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As soon as Apple has a CDMA/GSM version I will depart in seconds. I travel outside of the US but also to some small towns in the US. While ATT covers 97% of Americans with 2G. I seem to go to where that 3% live quite often as well as the 70% where they dont have 3G. My laptop has a GOBI modem that does GSM and CDMA. When I am in the EU I am on GSM/UMTS on a Jail Broken Iphone. It works great! really great even beter than in the US. So for ATT to have bandwidth issues is just a network design issue. If the Europeans can provide great coverage in London, Zurich, Paris, and Vienna. Hell even the Turks have a better network in Istanbul than ATT in the US. This is a network issue not a phone issue we have in the US. The same phone works great on every other network in the world why cant ATT provide the same service???
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Finally some good news. I have been craving for a Verizon iphone ever since I heard of it.
