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You all know I really despise AT&T, even though I continue
paying them thousands of dollars per year for three cell phones.
Since getting my Verizon iPhone I haven’t dropped a call and I
can actually hear the other party. Steve Gillmor got one on
Friday and, wow, what a difference. Not to mention that the
world’s toughest dead zone: Devil’s Slide is non-existent for
AT&T and TMobile, but works the entire way on Verizon for me.

TMobile is even worse. It doesn’t have enough coverage. My entire
neighborhood, which includes some of the houses of the richest
VCs, not to mention VPs from Apple, HP, and other places, has NO
TMobile Coverage. This isn’t back waters of some flyover state.
It’s 13 miles from the tech center of the world (at least until
Beijing takes over later this decade).

I think this COULD be a good thing, if they fill in some of the
numerous dead zones and get us better service. I’m stuck with
AT&T because I need to head to Europe every few months and
AT&T’s iPhone is better there. Also because in other places
AT&T does have better coverage, and its data is faster and
also I can use data while talking, which really isn’t that big a
deal for ME anymore (since I have two phones, I solved that
problem).

Anyway, does one bad company buying another make a good one? I
guess we’ll see.

Yes, I know I might get crap for calling these companies bad
companies, but I’ve paid AT&T thousands of dollars over the
last few years. I’ve earned that right.

Speaking of which, why didn’t they just spend that $39 billion
making a better network? Oh, do I love capitalism sometimes.

This is a forced marriage due to Verizon finally getting the
iPhone. If that hadn’t happened AT&T would have continued not
to worry and continued not to invest in its network. Now that
they know lots of people will switch when their contracts are up
they needed to do something huge to try to improve the network
before everyone wises up.