iPhone is humongous for AT&T

My AT&T service is great in Houston....I just hate AT&T as a company. They are just jerks when it comes to customer appreciation. They have the iPhone, its most revenue-generating device, and they limit their customer's user experience because they don't want their network clogged up? They limit SlingPlayer to WiFi (which renders it useless in my book) and don't enable MMS just to preserve bandwidth on their network? If they can't handle it, they should have never been able to sell the iPhone. Love the phone, love the reception, hate the provider. I can't even use my phone to its full potential even though the features are present.

I haven't been terribly disappointed with AT&T. Sure, the coverage is considerably less in comparison to Verizon, but I consider it a trade off to use the device I want as opposed to a wounded phone Verizon wants me to use.

It would be nice to have an iPhone with Verizon's stellar coverage here. But I don't see Verizon granting Apple the freedom to do what it wants. We're talking Verizon here; the company that organizes the icons on its phones so a missed key-press and you start up a data connection that bills $2.00 per megabyte. So one bad enter and you bill yourself $2.00 for the mistake. This is the same Verizon that uses their own software on your phone that runs slower, removes features you've paid for in order to require you to pass through the Red-V toll booth.

Yeah, this is a company that will play nice with Apple.

I just took my original iPhone over to T-mo. F.U. AT&T. They wouldn't honor my corp discount. I understand that it's not applicable to the iPhone, and I'm ok with that. Charge me $40/mth for data and text. But the voiceplan isn't iPhone specific, at least give me the disc on that! But nope. Plus the coverage sucks in the area where I live.

I just made the switch to T-mo. My old bill was $39.99 (450 voice plan) + $40 unl data = $79.99 + taxes and other fees.

T-Mo is this: 1000 minutes - $39 + Unlimited internet and txt msg $20.

Oh, and now I can send and receive MMS from my first gen iPhone...Yeah it's not that the hardware isn't incapable, rather it's that they want you to buy a new phone.

@honorelsu:

Totally agree. Organize via Facebook, or Twitter, or any other way. AT&T is making piles and piles of cash and screwing iPhone owners at every opportunity. Where's iPhone tethering? Where's a decent signal that doesn't crap out every time you blink? At the very least, iPhone owners everywhere (in the US) should send scathing letters to AT&T. Enough is enough!

from what i've heard, apple originally told the providers to get off their case and not moderate the design of the phone. apple makes their phone the way they want and it happens to be at&t's biggest success. as long as mobile service providers aren't involved, everything works out fine. the phone manufacturers are guilty of nothing. they are all making decent products that are literally changing our everyday lives. the service providers are all greedy cheats. they are deceptive, don't care about customers and will do anything to make a dollar, no matter how incompetitive or awful it is. it's not just at&t, it's the whole cellular industry and how it has come to be. we have excellent manufacturers and then we have the antichrist which we must run to to get these devices to function. any device i buy, i pay for and then it is mine. with mobile phones i must sign contracts with tons of fine print and be bombarded with ads, poor customer service and solicitations for years.

Maybe they win more money with each 3GS that they did with the 3G and the Edge iphones

Imagine the day when AT&T becomes "Apple Telepathy & Telegraphics".

at&t service sucks in the san francisco bay area.

come try it! dropped calls, NO calls received for 6 hours ... but later you get notice of all your voicemails even though you've called a number of people during that time. browsing with gps/edge popping on and off and antenna strength going from 5 bars to zero without you moving an inch.

it's that bad.

...but when i was in seattle, i had nothing but praise for the service.

it really is about location, location, location.

Considering how many people buy iPhones and how much they pay per month, AT&T does a lousy job of providing service. It's as if they just want them to pay per month and not use the service. Their customer service people are probably getting money under the table from Verizon or T-Mobile.

iPhones on Verizon will be physically worthless. Since they can't be used anywhere except America, there won't be any international demand for them.

Apple must always make quad-band GMS iPhones in the United States. The only alternative to AT&T is T-Mobile.