Brittany J.
New member
And it continues to heat up, this is a copy of the juicy stuff in todays Verizon court filing :laugh:
INTRODUCTION
AT&T did not file this lawsuit because Verizon’s “There’s A Map For That”
advertisements are untrue; AT&T sued because Verizon’s ads are true and the truth
hurts. For well over a year, the battle lines in wireless communications have been
drawn around the “3G” (third generation) wireless data capabilities of each carrier,
as measured by coverage, speed, and reliability. In recent years wireless carriers
have upgraded their first and second-generation networks (capable of transmitting
voice calls and limited data services) to 3G, enabling far higher transmission speed
and therefore a far broader range of data products and services, such as faster music
and video downloads, high-resolution games, and other software applications.
Verizon Wireless has invested billions of dollars since 2004 upgrading nearly its
entire network across the continental United States and Hawaii to 3G, and today
covers five times more of the United States than AT&T’s 3G network. Despite the
far smaller size of its 3G network, AT&T has spent tens of millions of dollars
making its 3G network, which it dubs the “Nation’s Fastest 3G Network,” the
centerpiece of its national advertising since at least the summer of 2008. AT&T
now is attempting to silence Verizon’s ads that include maps graphically depicting
the geographic reach of AT&T’s 3G network as compared to Verizon’s own 3G
network because AT&T does not like the truthful picture painted by that
comparison.
You can see the whole court document at http://stadium.weblogsinc.com/engadget/files/VerizonTROOpp.pdf
Verizon so rocks!
INTRODUCTION
AT&T did not file this lawsuit because Verizon’s “There’s A Map For That”
advertisements are untrue; AT&T sued because Verizon’s ads are true and the truth
hurts. For well over a year, the battle lines in wireless communications have been
drawn around the “3G” (third generation) wireless data capabilities of each carrier,
as measured by coverage, speed, and reliability. In recent years wireless carriers
have upgraded their first and second-generation networks (capable of transmitting
voice calls and limited data services) to 3G, enabling far higher transmission speed
and therefore a far broader range of data products and services, such as faster music
and video downloads, high-resolution games, and other software applications.
Verizon Wireless has invested billions of dollars since 2004 upgrading nearly its
entire network across the continental United States and Hawaii to 3G, and today
covers five times more of the United States than AT&T’s 3G network. Despite the
far smaller size of its 3G network, AT&T has spent tens of millions of dollars
making its 3G network, which it dubs the “Nation’s Fastest 3G Network,” the
centerpiece of its national advertising since at least the summer of 2008. AT&T
now is attempting to silence Verizon’s ads that include maps graphically depicting
the geographic reach of AT&T’s 3G network as compared to Verizon’s own 3G
network because AT&T does not like the truthful picture painted by that
comparison.
You can see the whole court document at http://stadium.weblogsinc.com/engadget/files/VerizonTROOpp.pdf
Verizon so rocks!