I Wish Verizon Took The iPhone Deal

By Daniel Miessler on April 21st, 2007: Tagged as Apple | Gadgets | Geek | iPhone | Technology

I’m a fairly happy Cingular customer, but I like T-Mobile marginally better and switched away from it only due to coverage issues in some small towns.

But I grow tired of both Cingular and T-Mobile not having 3G. Verizon and Sprint have had EV-DO forever now, and Verizon’s coverage is the absolute best. It’s no wonder Jobs went to Verizon first; it’s the best candidate without question. It really sucks that didn’t work out.

Oh well, I’m already a Cingular customer and I have a contract renewal instance waiting for the iPhone. This project has the potential to make or break Cingular/AT&T due to its massive gravity. Hopefully they won’t embarass themselves.

Of course, if iPhone does end up flopping, Helio is going to be all over their asses, and if it’s bad enough I’ll be switching myself.

[ Link: My Helio Post ]

  • http://slashback.org/blog/ Tim

    A long time ago, I had Cingular (for about a year before I switched to Verizon). It was horrible. Verizon can’t be beat on coverage.

    This past year I thought about going back to Cingular. Perhaps they’ve grown a bit. They have become “The new AT&T”, after all. Besides. They get all the cool phones.

    I changed my mind a few months ago when my girlfriend (who’s on Cingular) was at my house and her mom called. I could hear the static on the phone from across the room. It’s pretty much the same all over Americus… and most any other place that’s not right around a major city.

    My sister has T-Mobile and has no problems, but then again she lives in the mid west. Apparently coverage for T-Mobile and Cingular are much better than Verizon where she lives.

  • http://slashback.org/blog/ Tim

    A long time ago, I had Cingular (for about a year before I switched to Verizon). It was horrible. Verizon can’t be beat on coverage.

    This past year I thought about going back to Cingular. Perhaps they’ve grown a bit. They have become “The new AT&T”, after all. Besides. They get all the cool phones.

    I changed my mind a few months ago when my girlfriend (who’s on Cingular) was at my house and her mom called. I could hear the static on the phone from across the room. It’s pretty much the same all over Americus… and most any other place that’s not right around a major city.

    My sister has T-Mobile and has no problems, but then again she lives in the mid west. Apparently coverage for T-Mobile and Cingular are much better than Verizon where she lives.

  • http://kenswain.com/ Ken

    Just a minor correction. EV-DO is not 3G. EV-DO is just a the data portion of CDMA and has the speeds of the GSM 3G. When you talk about 3G you should be talking about GSM.

  • http://kenswain.com Ken

    Just a minor correction. EV-DO is not 3G. EV-DO is just a the data portion of CDMA and has the speeds of the GSM 3G. When you talk about 3G you should be talking about GSM.


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