AT&T loses request for injunction against Verizon's Map for That ads

Looks like AT&T's not getting its holiday wish after all -- a federal judge just ruled against Ma Bell's request to have Verizon's Map For That ads pulled off the air. That doesn't mean that this whole thing is over, though: the judge called the ads "sneaky" and said that it was possible people might misunderstand them because "most people who are watching TV are semi-catatonic." Whether or not that's enough to support a legal conclusion that the ads are misleading is a fight for another day -- specifically December 16th, when AT&T will have a second chance to argue its case. Still, this is a big win for Verizon -- everyone ready to be inundated with these ads for the next month?

[PeterFnet Posted Nov 18th 2009 6:15PM]

Hugs my HSDPA now that I moved. Was hell when I lived out in the corn

[N8D Posted Nov 18th 2009 6:16PM]

LOL @ the judge saying "most people who are watching TV are semi-catatonic." - WIN!
AT&T - LOSE

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 25th 2009 9:31AM]

So the ruling is in, now it's officially war. The fight begins tonite!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 18th 2009 7:14PM]

Win? The judge came out and said the ads were sneaky. Not exactly the best way to go into a trial.

All VZW won is they dont have to take the ads off TV COMPLETELY. Nothing has been determined yet about modifying them.

[Ezye1313 Posted Nov 18th 2009 7:41PM]

I could care less about these ads. The places that i live and travel to AT&T has 3g. And the 3g Is pretty fast, up to 2400 kilobits per second. So blah,blah,blah.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 18th 2009 8:31PM]

Yay! Another months worth of ads! I'm an AT&T customer and I love my service (mainly because I don't live in the AT&T black holes aka Chicago, New York City, San Francisco). I love the fact that Verizon is ripping AT&T a new one. When AT&T begins to realize that they're losing customers to Verizon, they'll have nothing else to do but to respond by making their 3G network more wild-ranging, robust, and fast. i'm not too concerned with having LTE at this point because an HSPA network is fast enough for me. HSPA+ would be awfully nice too.