Verizon iPhone 4 owners report fewer dropped calls than AT&T customers

Are you kidding me? In Co Springs, it's about half! ATT barely works here.

Or:

fewer Verizon iPhone 4 owners report dropped calls than AT&T customers

See what I did there?

In other news, the sun rises in the East and sets in the West.

duh

AT&T is the George Soros to TUAW's Glenn Beck.

Doesn't anyone know anything about cell technology anymore? CDMA will always drop fewer calls than GSM. A little googling on the two technologies compared will tell you that.

But hey. Don't let facts get in the way of a good story.

Just wondering here, if you waited for nearly FOUR LONG YEARS to get an iPhone because of Verizon's supposedly magical perfect unicorn rainbow network, do you think you might be inclined to underreport any deficiencies that you might encounter on it? Because if you admitted to yourself that it wasn't up to expectations, wouldn't that make you feel stupid for waiting so long?

Another thing to keep in mind is that Verizon iPhone users all chose that particular network over AT&T's, so I expect that they are almost exclusively in Verizon's strongest network areas. Whereas only those AT&T users who signed up in the last couple of months are in that boat. The majority of AT&T users "chose" that network when it was the only choice for iPhone, and thus, I'd expect them to be distributed across AT&T's stronger and weaker areas roughly evenly.

IMHO, both networks have strong areas and pathetic weak spots, and both corporations actively hate their customers. So this is no defense of AT&T. People should try both and use what works for them. Hopefully Sprint will get the CDMA iPhone soon--the more competition the better!

I don't think a lower rate of dropped calls is too surprising given general reports about Verizon vs ATT. (I've never had problems, but I live in an area that apparently has great ATT coverage - even better than Verizon). That said, the reported rate on ATT seems unacceptable, and even the rate on Verizon seems high to me.

What would be more interesting to me would be reports on data drops, data rates, etc. between the two, and both those and call drops by geography and company...

I have had an iPhone since 2007 and have never dropped a call. Ever.

You reported the general drop rates... the iPhone drop rates were 4.8% and 1.8%, higher than the carrier averages.