Comments on: OK, Who’s Ditching AT&T for a Verizon iPhone?

By: Ron A.

Ron A. — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 02:27:17 +0000

Verizon would be smart to entice current AT&T customers to switch. I for one would jump at the chance if they could offset some of the early termination fees. I have two IPhones, one for me, one for my son. The contract on my son’s expired in November 2010, so will most likely switch him asap. As for me, I have a contract through July 2012. If Verizon would apply my company discount to all of the IPhone services, I may jump over! Most definitely will jump once my contract ends!

By: to boo hoo hoo i mean well well well

to boo hoo hoo i mean well well well — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 02:50:05 +0000

As an employee of the company that will sell the iphone starting as early as end of january. Id like to say Its AMAZING how ppl whine and moan and groan , of course its your fault that you had overages. you think its someone else’s problem that you were yapping constantly every month? but a company should say here let me grab you a tissue and wipe your tears and say ‘ohh no worries, we will cover your 300 dollar overage. yeah right. own a business and tell me you would give a customer 300 dollars for something that was there fault. IGNORANCE! minutes and overages is 100 percent accurate and cant be said it happened when it didnt happen. you used minutes so you know as part of a legal contract that you cover whatever overage you inquire over the course of a contract. with att you have “roll over mins” but at the same time an estimated 8% of the customers actually have to dig into there overage mins, so you can go ahead and try your hardest to get to your 100000 roll over mins when they dont charge you any less per month on it. again as an employee im glad we dont have to deal with you as a customer. OUT!

By: selkirks

selkirks — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:36:25 +0000

@Ric Berry:

Your situation on Verizon may be normal for your location, but it certainly isn’t in most areas of the country. I have 4 bars on both 3G (EV-DO) and 2G (1X) essentially no matter where I go–as long as I’m not in a basement.

By: Karl R.

Karl R. — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:27:11 +0000

I will definitely switch to Verizon – but not immediately for two reasons:

1) AT&T locked me into a new 2-year contract when I upgraded to the iPhone 4 last June. The change fee is outrageous right now. I suspect this will keep many people from jumping ship immediately.
2) A new iPhone has been released just about every summer. When I switch, I want to get the next big step forward. I compare it to skipping the 3GS and waiting for the 4. I’ll wait for the next leap forward beyond the iPhone 4.

By: Ric Berry

Ric Berry — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:04:57 +0000

For those who think they may have some of the same problems with Verizon, there is no doubt about it. I will guarantee you 80% of your calls will be dropped if you are 6 miles from a verizon tower. I live in a county that has several cell towers and more then 80% of my calls are dropped. It usually takes 3 calls to finish a conversation.

By: Well, Well, Well2

Well, Well, Well2 — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:44:31 +0000

My point about the overage is that I’ve had rollover minutes for 5 years (of course one month at a time expires after 12 months) but that is insurance and it’s bailed me out about once a year…I don’t have to call Verizon customer service and get turned down for my mistake. This isn’t a stretch, about twice a year I go over the 1400 minute plan the family has…to have around 5000 rollover minutes bails me out though. I’ll take that.

By: E1allen

E1allen — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:42:01 +0000

Alas, AT$T is the only major carrier in Anchorage AK. Or they’d be history. 🙁

By: Well, Well, Well

Well, Well, Well — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:30:01 +0000

Sorry, wouldn’t leave AT&T for Verizon ever…left Verizon for AT&T 5 years ago and was the best move I had ever made. Why? Well, one of my last bills was overage (of course I was to blame) but hadn’t come close for probably a year or two, but then, when I got this great $330 bill (normally $70), I called, asked for some assistance…um, none. Everyone has been hyping customer care with Verizon for years, but they have lacked for a long time. They kept my old line active at a business for over a year and a half (the company took it over and “cancelled it”…um, no) Verizon is a huge company that deserves credit for decent voice connectivity, but the amount of Blackberry’s, Android devices and Palm’s that have been running 3G that I’ve seen…I would have gladly taken Sprint over Verizon and I know how bad Sprint’s service is. Look, iPhone on Verizon might help some in NYC and SF or will show up as a terrible boon for Apple. They better know how to make a CDMA phone, otherwise, people will begin to blame Apple, just what Apple doesn’t need.

By: Bay Area CA Male

Bay Area CA Male — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:11:20 +0000

Me plus 3 see Verizon on the horizon!

I didnt intend for that to turn out like a riddle but hey… Thats how cool a vPhone will be!

PLUS I read Verizon will offer unlimited data plans! WooHoo!!!

By: jhrogersii

jhrogersii — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:16:08 +0000

I will watching all those who do leave head out the door. More AT&T bandwidth for me! Seriously though, the addition of Verizon will be a very good thing for everyone. AT&T isn’t going to wither and die, and their service should definitely improve over time. We also might get some price competition as a result, although I won’t hold my breath for that necessarily. I am definitely looking forward to this.

By: Beto

Beto — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:48:11 +0000

I will think about it… I have 8 months left with AT&T, and where I live the service is less then poor…The service in L.A. Is not that great!!! I was in Dallas TX a few weeks ago and my iPhone always had full bars the whole time. Not in L.A. 2 or 3 bars most of the time

By: AT&T Employee

AT&T Employee — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:46:57 +0000

I plan on switching my iPhone to Verizon immediately. I may be an AT&T employee but I’m also a paying consumer. AT&T doesn’t even give us an employee discount on the iPhone and the service is lousy. I have no reason to keep shelling out almost 100 bucks to AT&T other than some illogical misplaced loyalty.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:27:07 +0000

I will ditch AT&T for Verizon at some point, but certainly not as soon as it’s released. Everyone (including myself) has complained about the dropped calls and overall crapiness that is the AT&T’s network, but I can’t help but think Verizon will have some similar issues in handling the volume that the typical iPhone user brings to a network. What’s more, it makes no sense (financially) to pay the ETF associated with the switch only to buy a similar phone with Verizon. If I do switch, it’ll be after a new phone is announced this summer – and only if it’s a significant upgrade. Otherwise, I’ll wait until after my contract with AT&T expires next summer and after Verizon has had some time to work out the kinks. Because we’re all living in a delusionary world if we think it’s going to be all double rainbows and butterflies with the iPhone on Big Red.

By: TennisGal

TennisGal — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:19:39 +0000

Actually I never went to the AT&T network but i’ve been waiting for verizon wireless to get the Iphone and now the time has come!!!! IM SO EXCITED