By the way, the Apple to Verizon for the iPhone story is a myth. That story has exploded since it's inception and has been portrayed and lauded as truth.

http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/03/13/stewart-slams-cramer-with-apple-video/

Now back to the comical comment bashing that AT&T usually gets.

Do you actually read your comments?

You talk about "mean" people with little feet and cocks spread hate about a wireless carrier, but then before you even start your rant, attack the United States President with no facts or reasons or respect.

You are a total idiot, with apparently a 14 year old's demeanor. And remember that over the interwebs, no one can hear you scream, stop using all caps.

@VZW

If your posts on BGR were not annoying enough, now you are trolling on another site.

3G is in the beginning stages in Vermont with AT&T. It would be weird that they would have the entire state covered, since they just got the territory. With Alltel and VZ being in the area for years and being the ones who sold off the area, one would think that they would have it covered.

Just a bit of logic, not some blind, weird carrier rage that you display.

And since the Verizon is the very, very bestest, greatest, most fantabolus carrier on the planet...no universe, why would you even want the iPhone? It's not like anyone is switching from the best in the universe to get the device. Also don't believe all the rumors you hear, it's not going to come until after 2010. That's what the contract is for. It's like the rumor that iPhone was giving to Verizon first. That was just a leak to the media to help in negations with AT&T and boost Apple stock. That was disproved over the past few months with people caught in the media's reporting on the current financial crisis.

Well with Verizon playing inside baseball with all their carriers and their OS you are lucky that you got those features on your devices. Blackberry Storm was one of the only phones that came with GPS unlocked, not needed to add a package at anytime.

Don't get started on bandwidth usage, Verizon takes care with their network as seen being the first carrier to charge overages on their aircard users. Improves the likelihood of network reliability. We can see on AT&T that the iPhone in general is a data hog and with huge amounts of users, this is only compounded.

Verizon may as well trim down many features due to their needs and wants. AT&T didn't really care about anything and we can see the results.

Actually the entire iPhone/Verizon deal was pushed through by a financial analyst in the media looking to create a story and market value for Apple in negotiations with AT&T. This story got out of hand extremely fast.

In a business since, AT&T may not have the best network, but it did have the largest customer base in America as well as GSM which means the device would simply have to be re branded to be sold Worldwide. Having a CDMA iPhone and only having the US as a major market or having the overhead of both a CDMA version and GSM for World consumption would have been a net lose.

A lot of fanboys on today...

Whoaaaa VZW, the greatest warrior for Verizon Wireless (possible wireline and FiOS), but some of the devices are still locked down. It's ok, no carrier is perfect, I know this may possibly vary from your opinion.

As for all the hate, AT&T has about 77 mil customers and now Verizon, with the merger, will have a give or take 80-90 mil customer base. Obviously someone likes AT&T enough to have the service, due to the iPhone or whatever you want to pick. I would say that since there is an unlocked GSM Pre in existence and both Verizon and AT&T has a flagship touch device now, if Sprint falls through then they both have a pretty good chance. I know possibly both carriers with the device!!! Blows the mind.

Maybe when LTE is up for both carriers in a few years, I don't want to think what your reaction will be if there are roaming agreements for business purposes...

Actually the EROS activation systems were down for most of the day, at least in the Washington/Baltimore area. Couldn't activate for long periods at a time, even calling in for help didn't work as I got the same answer from them. We lost a lot of money that day, hopefully they will come back in this week.

I believe testing implies that maybe something maybe wrong with the device itself.

Making a 3G GSM device is quite a different animal than a CDMA one, so bugs are an issue.

I happen to have an unlocked version in front of me now and it's crashed 3 times since I got it, never had a Curve do that before!

EVDO? Someone hates the iPhone... Isn't this device HSDPA?

In other news, this device is extremely sexy. A must have!

I understand the points made about AT&T huge gap in 3G coverage.

But when it comes to speed, it runs the fastest along with Sprint's service. Everything comes down to the area you are in and the phone you are using, even the Dare which I have is slower than the Tilt which I have as well in the DC area.