AT&T's acquisition of Alltel assets from Verizon Wireless close to completion

Where I live AT&T is amazing. I’m tired of people acting like AT&T is crap all over the entire nation when it clearly is not. I seriously don’t personally give a damn about AT&T, but I’m tired of comments that are only based off a few cities.

No Michael !

I think that Boy Genius and the rest of Sprint/T-Mobile/Verizon Fanboys should come to Upstate New York where I routinely get 2-3Mbps and the rest struggle to get 8Kbps. I definitely agree with @Oxyrt. Not everyone in the world lives in New York City or San Francisco.

I’ve had AT&T/Cingular for almost 10 years and have never had a problem with dropped calls. I’ve been to New York, California, Vegas, Puerto Rico, DC, and all around the Great Lakes and have never once had a dropped call. It sounds like one person has a shitty experience and everyone just jumps on it. Like they said, not everyone lives in San Francisco and New York.

people att is the best all around many people are mad cause verzion is stuck selling droids will att is makin history by havin a good pre order day of the iphone i can only imgaine june 24

I’ve been on the 4 major networks over the past 8 years. I was cingular initially. During the transition to AT&T’s technology, I noticed the first round of issues with the GSM technology that they deploy. When I bought the first iPhone the problems only got worse. I had dropped calls like it was my phone’s job. My voice mails barely made it through on their terrible data network (at the time). I dropped them after I lost $900 worth of business in a single day. I went to T-Mo for two years…they were alright…but nothing to write home about other than UMA. Went to sprint after that, loved the pricing, customer service seriously lacked though when I had an issue with a terribly built pre. Switched to AT&T after people assured me that the coverage was much better. I was with them for less than 6 months before I dropped them again. Fool me once…

Their service was awful in MANY cities. I was in 28 different cities over the course of the year, and I got multiple dropped calls in every single one. Major cities…which should be adequately covered. Data service was pretty good in most cities…but that doesn’t matter. I bought a PHONE. It should make phone calls…not drop them constantly. After another ridiculous bout of dropped calls with one of my major clients, I dropped them like they were dropping my calls. I’ve been with Verizon since December of 2009. I love it. The pricing is high, the data service isn’t amazing, but guess what….it is consistent. All over the US, i’ve gotten great phone coverage, good data coverage, and reasonable data speeds. Most importantly though, my phone calls aren’t dropped.

Can’t help but notice the staggering bias against AT

The guapo notices the bias also. Is everyone on here a douchebag or what? All the cell phone companies service work fine. If a nerd is having constant dropped calls themget out of the bathroom in the cellar with your girle mags and grow a pair. Wow. Misery loves company. But what do you expect on a techiesite? Nerds? Jealous of us with iPhones and girlfriends?

Pulling 5200k down on 3G I live in the SF bay area. No dropped calls.

In case anyone needed to see a screenshot.

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@El guapo,what about those of us with an iPhone and a wife? where do we fit?

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I live in San Francisco and the service is God awful to put it politely. Not joking, I hav to tell every person I speak to that if my call drops I will call them back. For roughly $150 per month you woul expect better service.

I have realized in the past couple weeks the drops have eased down, maybe due to the reported network enhancements in the city.

But time will tell.

I live in Boston and the voice service is terrible. I’m not an ATT hater; we used them when we lived in the Midwest and in Rhode Island with good results. But I think there is something to the idea that their voice service falters in congested areas.

They also have consumer-unfriendly policies.

AT&T buying Alltel assets? How the heck does that work? Alltel was CDMA, AT&T is GSM. Not sure what is meant by assets, but I’m guessing the value there is in property and towers, because they’ll have to install all new transmitters on said towers that are compatible with the GSM bands AT&T uses. Oh well, let ‘em have it. Verizon is gonna blow right by AT&T anyway since they’ll have LTE up and running before the end of the year in select markets (AT&T won’t even begin rollout until sometime next year), and once the inevitable Verizon-based iPhone shows up, AT&T will need to prepare for mass Exodus.

Verizon had their chance with the iPhone. Now they See How AT&T is doing taking customers from sprint,t mobile and Verizon. I’ll beg and plead for another chance. Apple is not going to waste there time making a CDMA version of the iPhone. Yeah it would do go in the states. But what about overseas! That’s where apple is making all there money at. So Verizon customers stop wishing it’s never going to happen. Unless Verizon start tearing down there CDMA towers and build GSM towers. Y’all are pretty much out of luck. In the mean time keep playing with those water down iPhones y’all droids.

GGGgrrrrr!!!!!
I’m in the void of Alltel! I have a bbpearl, it is very near death. The new htc offer is enticing, but I can’t tell from any blog whether or not I’m going to sign a new contract for naught. I’m in rural Michigan, and can’t get “real” answers from the teenagers who work at the Alltel store!
Should I get the Hero???

I have been with alltel here in Utah for years, I just took a trip across the country and had service nearly the whole way, good service, 3g intact. My friend who went with me had AT&T and only had service maybe 1/3 of the time, and 3G maybe 1/16 of the time, no joke. I was very disappointed with that aspect of AT&T. If I lose all of my good traveling service with this merger I will be very upset! Sure AT&T has the iPhone, but is it really worth not having service over half the way on a long trip? I don’t think so, if I can’t even use it! AT&T doesn’t have good service where I live in fact it doesn’t have 3G at all where we live, but they still have our area on their map as covered. They are lieing, 100%, they don’t have service, period! They don’t have coverage where I live, within 150 miles. When My grandpa came up from So. Cal he brought his iphone, and oh, guess what not one bit of service the entire time, we went all over, no service anywhere! This is all of mid to southern utah people! Most companies at least have towers near the freeway, but not AT&T. My grandpa has awesome service in So. Cal, and many of yall may have good service where you live, but it sucks here (over half of Utah isn’t covered), and Alltel is merging with AT&T!?! WHAT!?!?!?! Hopefully my service will stay off the same towers, if not I’m going to be going to Verizon, as much as I hate them…

I’m an angry Alltel customer, AT&T trying to give me a curve for my bold?? I’m not excited about going on the most expensive plans in the country either….geeze, you have to pay extra for messaging even on top of their already high plans.