I’ve watched with amusement these past few weeks as the marketing folks at Verizon finally figured out what I’ve personally known for the last year, and captured it in their “coverage maps” campaign. In summary, Verizon coverage is awesome while AT&T coverage completely sucks. Way-to-go Verizon marketing geniuses!
I know this, because in September 2008 Applied Trust moved all of its staff onto the iPhone platform as our corporate mobile communications device. I am the first to admit that my iPhone plays music really well… Apple-quality well. And I do like that. And I guess having an iPhone somehow makes me “more cool.” But as a functional cellphone for business communications, it’s a nightmare. Oh, and sometimes SMS messages arrive a day or two late, missing the typical SMS 60-second SLA by 2+ orders of magnitude.