There's An Apology For That: AT&T Dismisses Its Pointless Lawsuit Against Verizon Over Ads
from the nice-work dept
We still don't understand why AT&T called so much more attention to Verizon's ads that highlight AT&T's weak 3G network coverage by suing over the ads. Things were made worse when a judge refused to block the ads from airing. Perhaps finally realizing that all this was doing was creating free advertising for Verizon -- and more attention on the quality of AT&T's network -- the company has decided to drop the lawsuit. Apparently, instead, it's going to focus on its own misleading ad campaign.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Filed Under: 3g, advertisements, commercials, lawsuits, maps
Companies: at&t, verizon
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I long for the day when everything is just data plans. No more voice/text.
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It's the hardware/network. You simply cannot do voice/data at the same time on an EVDO/CDMA network unless you have two separate com chips in it.
I would guess that andriod doesn't support that either.
It sucks, but we'll live.
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Competition is good...
When Apple beats up on Microsoft in a what most would call a series of "unfair" commercials, it makes Microsoft make better products and in the end we all win. I frankly don't agree with Apple's business models, but without a heathly Apple, Microsoft will have no real incentive to produce a better OS. (Windows 7 is a great example of what Microsoft can do when focused). I think the same is true with Verizon and AT&T. Only to me, both are about equal sized competitors and less Apple versus Microsoft (or AMD versus Intel) type of thing.
Freedom
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Funny how that works...
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If there is no lawsuit, what is the point?
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AT&T Vs. Verizon 3G????
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3G simply refers to each groups set of 3rd generation gear used to make stuff faster than their older network.
If it was a standard that would be awesome. Then you wouldn't have to worry about how much any single specific company has coverage.
Much how things used to be when there was competition in both the GSM and CDMA areas and with one carrier you could use another carrier's towers (of the same technology base). Before they bought up all the competition except for a few here and there.
Although, I think that even if 3G was a standard, they couldn't all cooperate just because of how different GSM and CDMA are.
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Striesand Effect Jumps the Internet Firewall
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