Is Verizon deliberately going after AT&T

[agame2323]

The commercials are great but it seems like a personal attack on AT&T from Verizon. Am I missing something? What about Sprint and T-Mobile?

 

[Shutterbug]

Its not personal, its just business.
Sprint and TMobile are pretty much the lower league.
AT&T is Verizons main competition solely due to the sales of the Iphone.

 

[sbell111]

Yup. Verizon has AT&T in their sights. I suspect that it is leading up to an announcement of a Verizon iphone sometime next year. In the mean time, they are driving home how better their service is so that tons of AT&T iphone users are primed to jump ship.

 

[Papa Deuce]

Yup. Verizon has AT&T in their sights. I suspect that it is leading up to an announcement of a Verizon iphone sometime next year. In the mean time, they are driving home how better their service is so that tons of AT&T iphone users are primed to jump ship.

You can pretty much bet the farm on this.

 

[FireDancer]

You bet Verizon is going after AT&T. The injunction AT&T sought against Verizon was petty and I'm sure fueled the fire.

 

[Suzann]

I find that the ads aren't really 'attacking' since they're just mentioning what kind of service they have. Its all on how they say certain words. AT&T has better signal in certain areas (More bars in more places) BUT Verizon has a wider network, more places you get signal than AT&T but just not as strong, or not as many bars (The network guys... can you hear me now). If you didn't pay attention to the AT&T maps on certain coverage areas, you might be setting yourself up for a not so great customer/business relation...

 

[The Mystery Machine]

The commercials are great but it seems like a personal attack on AT&T from Verizon. Am I missing something? What about Sprint and T-Mobile?

They are both in a rabid war over the wireless market. It is a gravy train right now for both.

Verizon is gearing up for their new I- phone and hope they can get AT&T I-phone customers to jump ship.

Nothing new...just business as usual.

 

[Becky2005]

I haven't seen the Verizon ad, however, I would assume they are going after AT&T since I'm pretty sure I've seen ads going after Verizon a LOT.

Honestly, I really don't know if it's an AT&T ad but they are babbling on about stuff & saing "AT&T" and then at the very end it talks about how has the I believe largest coverage and the guy ends with "V - so they got one".

I never paid that close enough attention to the ad other than assuming it was an AT&T ad & doing a comparison against Verizon.

Tells you how much those ads influence me. I just tune it out sort of similar to Coke vs. Pepsi ads -- it's been going on for so long it's just background noise to me.

 

[mla1977]

I personnally loved having Verizon. I had it for about 9 years and just switched to At&t about 1 year ago. I had problems with Verizon at home. My cell never got service. Verizon's response when I first moved there (2006), "we see there is a problem and we're working on it". I called to complain a few times over the next few years. Last fall I called to complain one last time and they stated "well, our maps show that you have coverage". Really Verizon? because by phone shows ZERO bars. They then acknowledged that less then a mile away, their maps showed a dead zone. Well, it looks like their maps were off.

I didn't really want to switch from Verizon since almost everyone I know except for DBF has Verizon, but at least now I have an iphone!

 

[Pin Wizard]

AT&T fan! The icing on the cake for them having me stay with them was when I first had service with them and DS had quite a bill for his number due to internet access! AT&T deducted the entire charge (think $100+) from the bill and we set it up so he wouldn't be doing that again.

P.S. I have never had a problem with their service or the phones.

 

[OK!]

If I had to guess, I'd say it's probably at least a little bit due to the popularity of the iPhone and the fact that AT&T is the exclusive carrier of it in the US. I couldn't tell you how many people I personally know who changed carriers to AT&T because they wanted to use the iPhone. Not all of them came from Verizon, but still.

I don't care one way or the other; I ignore the ads. I have my iPhone and stellar service with AT&T, so I'm a happy girl and won't be goin' anywhere.

 

[Papa Deuce]

They are both in a rabid war over the wireless market. It is a gravy train right now for both.

Verizon is gearing up for their new I- phone and hope they can get AT&T I-phone customers to jump ship.

Nothing new...just business as usual.

AT & T ( fixed it ) pays $150 to Apple for each phone sold... and then a really nice chunk each month to be "exclusive"... That said, I think Apple would make more money if they were not exclusive to At &T.

 

[ExPirateShopGirl]

While Verizon may be losing money, they aren't paying Apple. I'm sure you meant "AT&T is paying Apple" - and yes, Apple is in dire need of capturing the Verizon loyalists as iphone users.

Verizon pays $150 to Apple for each phone sold... and then a really nice chunk each month to be "exclusive"... That said, I think Apple would make more money if they were not exclusive to At &T.

 

[Squirlz]

I hope they put AT&T out of business.

 

[Papa Deuce]

While Verizon may be losing money, they aren't paying Apple. I'm sure you meant "AT&T is paying Apple" - and yes, Apple is in dire need of capturing the Verizon loyalists as iphone users.

OopS! Yes, AT & T....

 

[OK!]

I hope they put AT&T out of business.

Why?

 

[suzanna1066@comcast.]

I switched from Verizon to AT&T to get an iPhone. Although Verizon's coverage is better, I have no regrets. Besides having the most awesome phone ever, I don't have to deal with Verizon's VCast which is horrible. I hope when Verizon gets the iPhone, they don't force VCast onto it.

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

They are both in a rabid war over the wireless market. It is a gravy train right now for both.

Verizon is gearing up for their new I- phone and hope they can get AT&T I-phone customers to jump ship.

Nothing new...just business as usual.

That is it exactly. DH has been in corporate advertising for 26 years and even made (he was the creative director) a commercial for Verizon with the "Can you hear me now" guy about 10 years ago. He saw the new AT&T attack ad and said it was in anticipation of them getting the Iphone next year.

When he worked with the Verizon guy, "Can you hear me now" was all he was allowed to say in the ads-no variance at all. It was funny to see him finally say something different in his more recent commercials.

 

[Squirlz]

Why?

Lying is SOP for AT&T. I signed up for internet service and they sold me out to a scam company that puts a $9.95 per month charge on your bill for some system I did not request. This Summer a guy came to the door talking like he was a technician telling me my "lines were all okay and ready to go". Turns out he was trying to sell AT&t's new cable service.

Businesses that lie to and cheat their customers should be driven out of business. I've had no issues with my Verizon service.

 

[My sister's princess]

I switched from AT&T to Verizon just a few months ago, and get much better service up here. I laugh every time I see the new commercials from AT&T, with the postcards. I know they won't show Maine