POLL: iPhone 4G on Verizon in the U.S.A. What will you do?

[alent1234]

Hate to be repetitious, but you guys keep worrying about the same bogus thing.

Verizon doesn't mess with their smartphones. And their data plan is $30.



ATT's terms forbid slinging video or using VOIP. Verizon's data plan permits them:



PS. It really seems ironic that people would worry over someone forcing them into a single look and feel, or limited Bluetooth... and then consider an iPhone, which is far and away the most company-controlled smartphone. Weird !

you can't count all the blackberries as devices capable of doing it because most of them are tightly controlled by their respective IT departments and you can't install any applications or even browse the internet on them unless it's a website that's not blocked by your IT department. If you were to stream media via your corporate BB, the way the traffic flows over Verizon's network is totally different than something like slingbox. Even slingbox on a BES controlled blackberry is going to route traffic differently than slingbox on the iphone

even personally owned blackberries probably route traffic differently than the iphone

 

[kdarling]

you can't count all the blackberries as devices capable of doing it because most of them are tightly controlled by their respective IT departments ...

Yep. That's true on any carrier, with any fully controlled device.

 

[Chupa Chupa]

some of us don't care about ring tones. i bought one or two years ago when i first got a phone capable of it, and then the novelty wore off

I don't care about ring tones either, at least as a novelty, but it's a great tool to make both a unique one and an easily audible one -- one that doesn't blend in with either everyone else's or mistaken for background music/noise.

 

[barkomatic]

AT&T has had problems supporting the mass amounts of data all us iPhone users are eating up. They have also dropped the ball several times, such as being late to offer MMS and tethering (STILL WAITING).

We have logic and now reports to support that Apple will open the iPhone to other networks in the U.S.A. when the 4G networks launch. http://www.appleinsider.com/article...iphone_on_new_u_s_carriers_within_a_year.html

My question in the poll above is, when that happens WHAT WILL YOU DO?

I suspect AT&T will suffer a hemorrhage of iPhone users to Verizon. Verizon's 4G network will be brand new however, and it will be very interesting to see if they will be able to handle the massive requirements of iPhone users better than AT&T.

Either way I am excited for the competition, as it will benefit us as consumers.

My contract with AT&T will be up when the 4G iPhone launches next summer. My vote is that I will wait until that time to decide where I want to go. One thing is for sure though, I will have the 4th gen iPhone!

So what will all of you do? Vote on the poll and share your thoughts.

Thanks all

If the voice/data/SMS prices between the two carriers were exactly the same then I'd probably switch to Verizon in this hypothetical situation. However, if AT&T lost iPhone exclusivity I'd imagine there would be some price competition so I'd have to see how that shakes out. I'd probably go for the better deal.

I don't think its that far fetched. The FCC has started to question the handset exclusivity. Personally, I think if a company wants to offer a product on a particular network then that is up to them. Why should the government force a handset maker *and* a carrier to offer a particular handset on a particular network? Just because a few Congressmen want a Verizon iPhone?

 

[cdd543]

I have had verizon and have no interest in going back. ATT works well for me.

 

[LiterallySimon]

Call Verizon Wireless on its Support for Environmental Destruction and Dirty Coal: http://www.clf.org/blog/?p=209

 

[MacFly123]

I don't care about ring tones either, at least as a novelty, but it's a great tool to make both a unique one and an easily audible one -- one that doesn't blend in with either everyone else's or mistaken for background music/noise.

Ya, it is not about novelty at all. I have different ring tones for my family and best friends, and when my phone rings I know exactly who it is without even looking. Comes in very handy, and it's just fun!

P.S. I make mine for free in GarageBand

 

[Steve Jobs=God]

Although i live in the Uk i would still look up at the sky and watch all the pink piggies flying past

 

[DrewG5]

I almost hate to admit this... I left Verizon for AT&T two months before the first gen iPhone came out. The data packages and phone crippling Verizon is well known for ran me off. Than came the spotty coverage I could not drive home from work in a major city let alone across country on interstates and expect to have coverage. AT&T has a lot to improve but is still better than Verizon ever was to me.

 

[eastercat]

I'd wait and see. Right now, if I go overseas, I can unlock the phone and pop in a foreign SIM. With Verizon, that option isn't there. I'd be stuck roaming and paying some obnoxious amount per minute. Now, I've heard rumors that Verizon might start utilizing a SIM card. If that's the case, they've got my attention.

 

[stonemonkey79]

i know u are all going to hate me for this, but does anyone have any idea whether the 4g will be available with a PAYG on any carrier in the US? im not hopeful but thought i'd ask ...

 

[nfl46]

Currently iPhone on AT&T and will STAY on AT&T.

 

[old-wiz]

even if it does go to VZ, i'm staying with AT&T. not like VZ can add bandwidth any faster than AT&T. these are complex engineering/legal projects. not like you can just build towers anywhere any time

And in lots of places, it's becoming more difficult to build towers. Zoning boards and paranoid residents don't want cell towers near their homes. One town in Mass, Harvard, has a cell tower that looks like an overgrown tree! Plus you need to get the connections to the network.