Internal Verizon Wireless document: iPhone 3G is a scam and we’re better
Leave it up to our wireless carriers to use Afghan tactics to try and con convince current and potential customers to stay or sign up for service, right? We just got our hands on an internal VZW doc that was distributed to agents which breaks down the iPhone 3G data plan and price. It’s actually pretty comical with Verizon telling agents the iPhone 3G doesn’t support turn-by-turn GPS navigation (which it doesn’t at the moment) but all Verizon data devices do. Why is that funny? Well, we’d pay to not use Verizon’s craptastic GPS software. Another one? Verizon inaccurately stating that “There is an assumption that the new iPhone’s data package will include all data – IT DOES NOT!!” Oh, VZW… maybe if you didn’t pass on the phone you wouldn’t be spreading this madness. At least you have Thunder soon, no?
Thanks, Harris!
You all should grow up and get a life! none of what you post is of any help to a perspective customer for att&t or VW and i have an I phone with no service yet
@BG….
I just read this article. Must have missed it the first time around. I am wondering why you call Verizon’s navigation crap when I have seen 3 or 4 different magazines do reviews on navigation with Garmin, Tom Tom, etc included in the test and they all chose Verizon navigation to be the most accurate? Serious question, not a slam on your quote, yet. lol.
owned visual basic style!
AT & Ts coverage stinks and you all know it. Verizon’s coverage is far superior across the country. AT&T drops out in metro areas – how can you get THAT wrong?! Here’s some advice AT&T – spend some money on some freaking towers instead of “pick of the week”, trendy phones.
Actually, Verizon Premium plans do include GPS turn by turn direction. The iphone is a far more superior phone than any on the market.
Obviously there are no posters here that can take thier own bias beliefs out of the mix so I will attempt to do so. As a previous seller of Verizon, AT&T / Cingular, and T-Mobile. I can tell you this. Of all the networks out there VZW has the most reliable, lagest for voice, largest for Data (3G) there is. The Data is Faster and with the Aquisition of Altell they now have over 80 million customers making them the biggest. That means unlimited calling to more people than any other carier out there. I personnally had an AT&T phone and before all you haters bash me for being bias let me say that I rarely if ever had a dropped call with them. That being said I libe in a major Metropolitan area and would expect any major carrier in that area to have little or no dropped calls. I do however go places where I have had callanges in service with AT&T and T-Mobile. My VZW phone shows 3 to 4 bars in those places. I also had a “3G” data plan for my AT&T phone and it was so painfully slow I got rid of it in a week. It was about half the speed of dial up.I constantly read these blogs where people bitch about the dumbest things. Like no WIFI on a device or I dont like thier phones. Or they made a big mistake passing on this or that. All of these companies make business decisions based on being a profitable business. AT&T put most of thier eggs in one basket with the Iphone and to some degree they had a good run. But apparently not good enough. Based on the Rumors they will lose thier exclusivity sooner than they had planned because they couldnt maintain the sales per thier contract with Apple to keep the exclusivity. Guess whos waiting in the wings to nab that opportunity. The now biggest carrier with a faster data network that covers 80 % of the population. And from what ive read in a lot of these Blogs VZW “passed” on the iphone (which by the way means Apple came to them first, and they made a concious business decision to say no thank you) because Apple wanted to do stupid things like handle tech support themselves, and use non removeable batteries, and leave out features that customers actually use like picture messaging. I myself send picture messages all the time. I dont however want my phone exploding with e-mails so I dont have it set up to do e-mails so with an Iphone I would not be able to send a picture cause i wouldnt have the email set up to attatch it to. Also I would be willing to bet big money that when VZW does get the iphone(and you know its going to happen eventually) it will be a better version with more features less bugs to work out and bottom line a better network reaching more people. Lets also face it aside from the big 2 the rest of these carriers suck. They are giving away the farm in an attempt to generate any kind of sales so when you compare any other carriers to these 2 and say they are cheaper just ask yourself which carrier your going to port your number out too when the mass exodus of customers from all these crappy little cariers forces bankrupcy. As far as sales in a store goes and how they treat customers I have yet to walk thru a mall where you dont have to run the gauntlet of cell phone shops. every carrier attacking like vultures in an attempt to get any business. Yes sales (for all carriers) is commission based and dont kid yourself into thinking one is any more or less inclined to be self serving when it comes to a salesperson managing there time to generate the most personal income and job security for themselves. Especially in these troubled economic times. Maybe Obama could throw some money at the cell phone companies too. just to help em out.To finish off this little rant. None of these carriers are going to experience any real increase in service enhancements till 4G rolls out. then you will se speeds already tested at 10 times current broadband rates and the devices (which already due to processor speeds are limited to slower speeds than the networks are capable of supporting)will truely be the limiting factor. Consider that the duo core processor chips in your laptop or pc are about the size of your battery in a phone and you get an idea of why the current phones are not faster. But we will get to a point where the phones catch up and Lte will open a brave new world of connectivity and speed.