∞ Report: AT&T drops three times as many calls as competition

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ChangeWave research issued a report on Wednesday that said AT&T has the highest percentage of drop calls of any U.S. carrier at 4.5 percent. T-Mobile had 2.8 percent, Sprint had 2.5 percent and the company many people want to see Apple partner with, Verizon, had 1.5 percent.

“AT&T was clearly the worst in the March survey, tacking on yet another increase over the last ChangeWave research survey,” ChangeWave observed in its report on the survey. Furthermore, a closer look at the trends show an increasing number of dropped calls among AT&T customers surveyed, and a steadily decreasing number of dropped calls for Verizon customers.”

Survey: AT&T Drops Three Times as Many Calls as Verizon [All Things D]


  • Eric

    I can hear Edward Tufte weigh in here and talk about how charts are used to distort the facts. The iPhone drops calls thee percent more than Verizon phones. From 1.5 percent to 4.5 percent. The more important statistic that means something in this "survey" (where unreliable self-reporting subjets can easily distort the real facts) where only eight percent of the AT&T iPhone users would switch away.

    The iPhone is WAY more important than the minor difference between AT&T and Verizon when it comes to dropped calls.

    A mouse fart three times louder than a cockroach fart is still hard to hear.

    • http://www.thegraphicmac.com Jim

      I was going to write a lengthy commentary on this, but I swear your last sentence simply cannot be followed on. Bravo!

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/satcomer satcomer

    All these "surveys" do is reinforce where a person lives inside the US. I say this because Verizon sucks big time where I live and travel on the US East Coast but AT&T on my iPhone seems always to work.