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philoxera — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:18:20 -0000

It may not be the service provider. I have the Iphone in Ireland and I drop calls all over the place and my reception sucks. We dont have AT&T here. Try your sim in an old nokia and see if your calls drop art the same rate or borrow somebody's nokia with AT&T sim. When you drop a call check your Nokia from the same place. The Iphone is brilliant but its phone bit lets it down. Still keeping my cool Iphone. Respect!

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Franklin Adams — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:50:44 -0000

Long time lurker - first message.

Thx for hundreds of episodes. I've learned a bunch about grapes.

The chance to spit on AT&T will get me out of my lurker seat.

I switched from verizon for the iPhone. I didn't know what a dropped call was until AT&T. It is amazing they get away with this crap. I travel for work and have had the pleasure of the sh:ty network all over the country.

FYI. Both the washpost and the times this week ran lovefests for vino from Portugal et al. Secret is out.

I'm drinking some values from Greece.

Wine library customer from dc.

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Randy Hall — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:08:06 -0000

Brother, I so totally am with you on this. My wife and I were JUST DISCUSSING the AT&T "more bars" tagline this very morning, and how it was incredible BS. BTW, I hear you're in Cali next week, might you be stopping by the WBC in Santa Rosa on Friday? Would love to see you there.

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shanaprince — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:05:44 -0000

Verizon all the way, no doubt. I can barely hear my friends that use A T & T. Gotta have the network follow me around. It's all about value and good service. In business you need a phone that works 24/7 Once you go Verizon you never go back. A T & T who???

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Guest — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:49:51 -0000

Drop the iphone and get a BlackBerry Tour 9630 on verizon wireless.

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meinanic — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:10:13 -0000

Hey Gary,

I've been getting dropped called A LOT lately over here in San Jose, Ca. Wireless AT&T is definitely not living up to there slogan. I'd be nice if they would tell their costumers what's going on but I'm sure hell would have to freeze over first.

Love your online show Gary and I can't wait till Crush It comes out.

Peace.

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Kyle Steed — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:01:39 -0000

I haven't picked up an iPhone yet for this very reason. I'm sorry that you're dropping calls though. That sucks. Hopefully the iPhone will be out on Verizon by the early part of next year. *fingers crossed*

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gatts61 — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:00:47 -0000

yes Gary man yes yes yes i had sprint be for and i use to use it in a basement and now i drop calls when im just driving oh and i live in Texas

hit me up on tweeter @gatts61

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Clintus — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:06:13 -0000

Go with T-Mobile. You can use the iPhone with them and I never have any service issues.

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Thomas Lane — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:07:11 -0000

I left Sprint, whose service I was very happy with for most of the 9 years I was with them, to get an iPhone with AT&T. I love the iphone, but AT&T’s service is the pits. I’m averaging like 3 to 10 dropped calls a day. The signal strength could be reading 5 bars and the calls still drop. I am so tired of hearing, “I can’t hear you, you’re breaking up”; “Is there something wrong with your phone?”; “Where are you, are you there?”; “Tom?, Tom?, Tom?, where did you go?”, *crackle, crackle, crackle.” *beep beep beep*, *silence*. *Call Failed*

This never happened to me with Sprint. The call quality was as good as my land line phone. With AT&T, even when I have a fairly good connection, I hear background noise and hissing; even the ringing is warbly. Come on, AT&T, fix this!

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Thomas Lane — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:19:29 -0000

I left Sprint, whose service I was very happy with for most of the 9 years I was with them, to get an iPhone with AT&T. I love the iphone, but AT&T's service is the pits. I'm averaging like 3 to 10 dropped calls a day. The signal strength could be reading 5 bars and the calls still drop. I am so tired of hearing, "I can't hear you, you're breaking up"; "Is there something wrong with your phone?"; "Where are you, are you there?"; "Tom?, Tom?, Tom?, where did you go?", *crackle, crackle, crackle." *beep beep beep*, *silence*. *Call Failed*

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Tommy Vernieri — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:38:31 -0000

AT&T's coverage in Charleston, SC is poor. Though the iPhone doesn't make it any better—my Sony Ericsson did get a decent AT&T signal at my house, on the iPhone it can only hold a call in one or two parts of the house. Regardless, the coverage is definitely bad enough to be aggravating.

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Jaime — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:05:15 -0000

I have had Verizon since last October, and am not happy with the call quality or their coverage. I get lots of dropped calls and dropped data calls in EVDO, and absolutely NOTHING works in 1X. Roaming is a joke. Free. Sure. And cannot be done. Got a Pink Razr, s'posed to be a cool phone, but it really is NOT "all that". In fact I find it to be relatively featureless compared to other phones I have had. They have this so called guarantee. Several techs have told me the problem is my device. They promise every time I call to own the problem and fix it. But they have so far refused to either replace the device or fix the problem. The data rates are much higher and coverage map is much lamer than ATT. I think you might want to try a different device and stay with ATT, because if I was not in this contract, I surely would have dumped Verizon already.

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Gianna Borgnine — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:11:50 -0000

I have had AT&T/Cingular/AT&T for about 9 years. I have a plan with unlimted everything (minutes, text messaging, data). My phone is permanently attached to me and I am talking all day. I have very very rarely ever had a dropped call. If I get one a month that would be a lot. I live in Delaware, but I do not use an iphone. Maybe that's the difference?? Maybe Santa GaryVee should give some of those away and I will sample it with my same service and let you know?? Haha. J/K. :P

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Mark — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:42:22 -0000

I've been very please wit AT&T here in Chicago. I switched from Sprint who was getting worse each year. I switched specifically for the iPhone, but I had a Razr until last November when I lost it. That was when I got the iPhone.

BTW, is Gary in an examination room? Hmmm, I think there's an additional message he's sending AT&T about where he's taking it on the dropped calls :) And if so, what is he using to make the vid. Maybe a Flip?

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C Spackler — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:39:51 -0000

Well AT&T did drop the "fewest dropped calls" ad campaign back around summer of 2007 I guess now you know why..I dropped AT&T well before that.

With that said.. maybe when AT&T says "more bars in more places" they really do mean bars....bars with wired payphones and happy hours...where you can actually make a phone call..you know..a new retro movement kind-a thing ..Get wired baby..

Oh well..keep 'em honest Gary.!

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Francis — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:36:34 -0000

ATT is horrible. I have the iPhone and I drop calls practically everyday from my apartment in Manhattan... I wish they would fix whatever they need too because their service is pretty poor.

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nmyra — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:17:38 -0000

I have AT&T and use a Blackberry Curve. I travel frequently and my service drops in downtown Houston, Austin, D.C., NY, SF...it is really frustrating. Most of the time, I have no bars in ALL places ;)

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Dave from Temecula, CA — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:11:40 -0000

I grew up on Long Island and worked in Manhattan for quite some time using Verizon. It the same as anywhere else. There are good spots and there are dead spots. Just because it's a big metropolis you'd think that the cell providers could provide some decent coverage to a highly dense location. Truth is they can't. Real Estate is costly and there's lots of competition for signal.

Being out in the west coast I live in a valley... its even worse here. Limited cell towers can't cover the landscape when there are hills in the way.

Truth be told each cell provider has their strengths and weeknesses in different areas. "Least dropped calls" is relatvie. It just means they "suck less" than some of the other providers. But "More bars?". I agree, that's a joke.

But kudos to Apple. I won't give up my iPhone regardless.

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Marc K — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:50:19 -0000

If all of the carriers used one standard like they do overseas we wouldn't have such spotty coverage.

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k00k — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:44:52 -0000

I'm a long time Tmobile customer - since the Voicestream days. I have been pretty happy with it. I drop a call about once every 2 weeks maybe, and most of the time it's because I forget about a couple small dead spots near my office. The only problem I see on the horizon is that the soon to be live Tmobile 3G network will not work with my newly purchased N95-4 as it's a diff band. Not sure if I really care right now, Qik seems to be working just fine without it anyway.

@k00k me and watch my Qiks

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chrisbutts — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:42:45 -0000

Honestly... I have yet to get a dropped call on my iPhone. I did however leave Sprint for AT&T and I thought Sprint was just better overall. Sprint seemed to have more coverage than AT&T, so thats the issue I struggle with. Now, I did go back to Sprint for broadband access (EVDO) - that totally rocks.

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MichaelP — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:09:08 -0000

OMG..I have an AT&T Blackberry & work in midtown NYC & the reception just sux. When I'm not dropping calls the static & interference is so bad that it makes satellite phones in Iraq sound like HD radio. I can't stand it. I mean I can totally understand if I was in uhh lets say Springfield NJ then yea you probably wouldn't even get reception but midtown??? Come on...

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Ben — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:35:09 -0000

No. Have iPhone with ATT and I am fine!

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Naysen — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:25:12 -0000

Absolutely brother. But in my case, it's with their bloody broadband service. My problemed cable looks like a berry pie compared to the blunders of AT&T of late. Try calling them, you might find they have the "old" AT&T offices and the "new" AT&T. Truthfully, they don't know there Ass from the back of their right hand. Sighh...