Yesterday, I had a nice little rant about why Verizon's ads deserved to be pulled off air.
But that was not to be, as the Federal Court declined to issue a restraining order on Verizon from airing the ads. The next hearing on this case is only on December 16.
In the judgement, the federal judge did say that the ads were "sneaky" and that a misunderstanding was possible since "most people who are watching TV are semi-catatonic" but then refused to issue a restraining order until the case comes up again on December 16.
Quite expectedly, AT&T has had a plan B to tackle Verizon till then - in the form of a counter ad. However, instead of clearing the air about Verizon's accusations, AT&T has tried to take the bull by its horns and get back equally aggressive. The end result is that the ad leaves the consumer even more confused and disoriented.
What AT&T has failed to do is to address the real issue by educating the customers about what 3G really is and how Verizon's 5X more 3G network coverage means nothing in actuality. In essence, one would have expected AT&T to communicate to its customers how Verizon was misleading them with their accusatory ads.
Instead, the new ad from AT&T features Luke Wilson talking about 3G experience and internet surfing with a seeming presumption that the target audience understand what he is talking about - the very assumption that AT&T has been fighting against in the court.
Here is the ad for you, if you haven't watched it already:
AT&T would have done better to rather bring attention to their TruthAbout3G website instead of posing this one as a counter ad. What do you feel? Please tell us in the comments.
[via Engadget]
I like it. It's just strange seeing AT&T saying it's a faster and better network as I'm use to verizon saying that. But yeah I like it. They should get even stronger then verizon that's the only way to win. Let's go AT&T lol the best smart phone. So true:-)
Quite frankly, I think it's a terrible commercial. And it doesn't even address what Verizon's ads are supposedly "misleading" people about (despite the fact that it clearly states in every commercial now that it's talking about 3G coverage).
: AT&T is not going to win the war of getting customers for this hoilday season if they do a commerical informing why verizon was wrong in what they said. Maybe after the hoildays they could show the world the reason why verizon was wrong but not now. AT&T needs to kill the enemy.
That was the worse commercial ever, they brought a water gun to a war !!!
I traveled alot to canada and other places and AT&T sucks balls i never got a good signal. Used my companys cell phone Verizon and it was full bars.
it doesnt matter how good your 3G service if the coverage sucks.. they need to talk about the other aspects of AT&T
They sould stop wasting all the money on trials and advertising and spend it on building the network up like they should of been all along
I think you and everyone here should stop been lil bitches
And just realize that the iphone is old news and get a real fone
Like the droid……I have a g1 rooted and I'm with tmobile
And I whish I had adroid not a stupid I fonethat has no wigets
And can only run one program at a time ……..I can't believe people
Actually pay a lot of money for this kind of fone,yeah right maybe
When it first came out………can't wait for the xperia x10 than what are you iphone
Lover xcuse is gonna be ………peace out…
thats here and there bud…for example when i had Verizon i did not get service 2 blocks from my house. But with att i get full service in my basement. Not saying u are wrong i am saying service is better with att in some places and Verizon in others. For me i don't care who i am with as long as the phone works…
I find it ironic how people take the extra effort to come to an iphone hacking website to post about how great their "other" phone is. Why don't you just… Run along now, this isn't hackdroid dot com here.
We definitely need 5x more coverage in the desert, just in case. But for others, simply having coverage where they use their phone is good enough. I really have no complaints about my service in my area and I travel up and down California.
Let's face it, the guy wishes he had an iPhone that's why he's here. He probably can't afford one because no one wants to hire a stoner who spells phone with an F.
HA, LOL, he asked his mom to get him one and she said no, i cant afford 200 dllrs, get one of those 50 buck ones, LOL
my friend works for Verizon Wireless and he told me he loves the droid. I then asked him, "It's almost like the Iphone, huh?" and he said yeah, almost. lol
I would spend my money on hooked on phonics better, then getting a phone.
The truthabout3G website doesn't show anything different from the 3G map Verrizon uses. In fact, that site makes it MORE difficult to see the difference between 3G and it's less-than-3G data network.
Oooooohhhh an X10!!!!
Did you not know That Windows & SE has announced NO NEW UPDATES FOR EXPERIA on winmob os??
Get your mum to buy you two paper cups and a bit of string and go play with your little friends. (or try 'going' to school)
1. I don't know WTF is keeping track if AT&T's 'dropped calls.' How can they say they have the fewest? Even when I have full bars in my apartment, which is ton the top of a giant hill, I drop calls frequently.
2. Everyone knows that Verizon's reception is better. Everyone.
3. I'm switching to Verizon as soon as they start selling the iPhone.
Conclusion: AT&T sucks. Verizon's service is better. But I'm not already telling you something you don't already know.
I can't wait until Verizon starts carrying the iphone… and I hope alot of people leave AT&T.
That way the network can become less clogged up for me to use my iphone on AT&T as I please… and have faster 3g speeds and zero dropped calls!!
Not only that, the people that'll think that Verizon will be able to handle such a surge to its network will truly realize how stupid they were to even switch carriers…
I've never had any trouble with my iphone or the 3g in Louisiana… a dropped call every now and then but it's really rare.
We shall see how well the service can handle it when the iphone debuts to Verizon in 2010!