Study finds AT&T iPhone downloads twice as fast as Verizon's

I live in Michigan and I've used my AT&T iPhone all over this state, and for extended periods of time in Chicago, Atlanta, Minn/St.Paul & even NYC with few, if any problems. Maybe it's a fluke, maybe people just like to complain...either way I've been an AT&T customer for 8 years, and I haven't heard one thing that would make me want to switch to Verizon.

Ahh yes this old argument again,
If you use your phone to make calls, you know,
Use your phone as a phone, you want Verizon.

If your using your phone for mostly data stuff and apps,
then go with AT&T.

If your in an emergency and need to use your voice, because their is
"no app for that" you will need a provider that you can actually make voice calls with.
That is a FACT, you want Verizon.

AT&T is famous for having full bars of signal and dropping calls.
Verizon may be famous for not having a fast data network as AT&T
but you can place and keep a phone call.

Heck, doesn't this all depend on the specific tower? If a carrier has a heads up to a test, they can at least temporarily up the cap, right? I only hypothesize this because Sprint towers in downtown Columbus Ohio were giving 7-11Mb/s consistently, while the tower at the north end of the city (from right under it to within eye sight of it) was at first giving about 5Mb/s, then after roll out, only giving 3.5Mb/s consistently (in other words, a deliberate cap as this would read exactly 3.4-3.5 regardless of the time of day or night). Now the north one is only giving a dismal 2Mb/s. I think they deliberately pump up the bandwidth in the downtown business district and nerf it up north where there is not as much business.

So that's the price of being able to make phone calls.

Study also finds that AT&T still drops WAY TOO MANY CALLS.

They definitely do here in Alaska. Know why? There is no Verizon here. Pow!

That's true.... if you can get a signal. :D
AT&T has been kinda unstable in my area. Some time I get good speed, other times I have sub 56k speed (especially on upload), with signals varying from no data to full bars, on the same spot.

We've already seen the reports that iOS 4.3 is SIGNIFICANTLY faster than what came before. Should we expect speed increases when iOS 4.3 is made available for the Verizon iPhone?

I am in NYC and I have done comparison with the iPad using AT&T 3G and my Verizon iPhone 4 side by side using speedtest and often Verizon was slightly slower or sometimes faster with downloads while blowing AT&T away with upload speeds. It's nothing new that Verizon would be slower but their data stream is consistent v. AT&T, not to mention that I did not have a single dropped call on VZ since I got the phone. I had the 3GS until last summer when I switched to the EVO with Sprint. Yes 4G on Sprint was as fast as 10mpbs down but just like every other 4G/LTE phone, the battery would drain in less than 4 hours leaving with a fancy paper weight.

Why'd they pick those cities? Where's SF? Where's LA? Houston? Phoenix? Philly? San Diego? And they're not giving specifics, like which cities Verizon did better in - I imagine NYC where AT&T is still terrible.

"Despite widespread concerns about AT&T's network in downtown San Francisco, Metrico did not include that city in its study, although it did include New York City. The other four locations were Seattle, Baltimore-Washington, Chicago and Dallas. "