AT&T publicly responds to Verizon negative ad campaign

by Justin Horn on Nov 12th, 2009 @ 7:52 pm

AT&T just posted a press release entitled “AT&T Sets the Record Straight on Verizon Ads” where they rebut several aspects of Verizon ads. This press release isn’t that surprising as we’ve been hearing all about the behind the scenes lawsuit filings. AT&T has been getting a lot of bad press lately due to network issues and the fact that they limit everything having to do with the iPhone including MMS, tethering, VOIP apps, etc.

AT&T has been working hard though and have made some headway by finally by upgrading many areas to 850MHz and plan to launch HSPA 7.2mbps in 6 cities by the end of the year. They also finally got MMS running and more recently have given Apple permission to allow VOIP apps like Skypes to run on the 3G network (still no tethering though). Even with these improvements AT&T has a long way to go and Verizon is to taking advantage of that…rightly so.

Here are the “key facts” AT&T points out:

AT&T’s wireless data coverage reaches 303 million people – or 97% of the U.S. population, where they live and work. Our data coverage consists of 3 different types of technology:

• 3G. 233 million people or 75% of the population are covered by AT&T’s 3G network, the nation’s fastest.
• EDGE. 301 million people or more than 96% of the population are covered by EDGE.
  • With both 3G and EDGE coverage, customers can access the Internet, send e-mail, surf the Web, stream music, download videos, send photos, text, talk and more. The only difference – with some data applications, 3G is faster than EDGE
• GPRS. Covers 303 million people, allowing you to talk, text, e-mail and access basic websites optimized for wireless.

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