AT&T is not allowed to use the term "Fewest Dropped Calls" anymore!

[terryjohnson16]

Yes, this is good news.

From the employees:
HowardForums: Your Mobile Phone Community & Resource - Our RAE told us to take down everything that says "FEWEST DROPPED CALLS" (http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1220034)

From the consumers:
HowardForums: Your Mobile Phone Community & Resource - "AT&T has the fewest dropped calls" -umm, not anymore... (http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1220808&page=1&pp=15)

[greenblood]

I don't make many calls, but I seldom encounter call dropped
2G<->3G handoff smoothness will be tested out soon, where is available
again, if T-Mobile does it well, they should reserve "the fewest dropped calls"

[kinjutsu11]

They already have "Fewest dropped calls" in certain markets, such as Miami and Houston. There are billboards all over south florida. it kinda goes hand in hand with their "Don't Drop.." marketing. Still, a nationwide campaign would be smart!

[greenblood]

I saw a HUGE "Don't Drop Dad" board at 8th Ave, near N train station
"Sir Charge" is still the worst on dropped calls

[tmobilefan]

I saw a store that had it today.
They should take it down.

[Scooby214]

AT&T's fewest dropped calls slogan never did anything for me anyway. We tried an AT&T line for my wife when she washed her old US Cellular phone. Many times my calls to her went straight to voicemail. When they went through, they sounded so garbled that I couldn't understand her. To be fair, my neighborhood tries very hard to fight cell towers, but AT&T's slogan certainly didn't help us.

We only kept the AT&T line for a couple of days, then converted my T-Mobile account to a family MyFaves plan and put her on! :)

[Inuyasha]

I don't think I've ever liked AT&T, lol. I didn't even like them when they were a TDMA/AMPS provider, lol. I pretty much got to preview most of the providers through a friend of mine that kept jumping from one provider to another.

[Scooby214]

I've done quite a bit of that jumping in my day. The only providers in my area that I haven't tried are Alltel and Nextel. (We don't have Verizon in our area.) In my area, Cingular had a better TDMA network than what they have with GSM. I bet that they have oversold their network, and now the quality suffers due to having too many subscribers on their network!

[greenblood]

roaming handoff can cause disconnection
since at&t masks the ACTUAL carrier on their branded phones, that you're unable to know you're on at&t or roaming
850/1900 switching may cause disconnection too, same situation when switching between 2G and 3G (T-Mobile may have same problem too)

[Nwahs]

Haha serves them right! Sorry....I just find that kind of funny...I've been saying all along...ever since I read an article about how the "leading research group" denied ever having dealt with Cingular...and then hearing the commercials saying "fewest dropped calls claim found by the leading research group"

[Scooby214]

roaming handoff can cause disconnection
since at&t masks the ACTUAL carrier on their branded phones, that you're unable to know you're on at&t or roaming
850/1900 switching may cause disconnection too, same situation when switching between 2G and 3G (T-Mobile may have same problem too)
My coverage issues weren't related to handoff between AT&T and roaming, as I was in the middle of Okla. City, in a residential area. They don't have any roaming agreements in the metro Okla. City area. The phone was a basic Nokia, so it wasn't switching between 2G and 3G. We simply were in a problem area for AT&T. There is a Cingular tower that is about 1.5 miles away, but we have lots of folliage in the neighborhood that could be causing problems. They could have also been having tower issues with that particular tower. Either way, I'm glad that we put my wife on my account, as T-Mobile now covers my neighborhood better than any of the other carriers.

[Nwahs]

So recently the only "Fewest dropped calls" signs that I have seen have been T-mobile's regional signs....anyone else see any from At&t anymore?

[Ellen]

I haven't seen any AT&T signs like that in my area anymore.

[tmobilefan]

I haven't seen any AT&T signs like that in my area anymore.

Not that long after they changed, I still saw some signs in my area.

[Davesworld]

There was never any real scientific data to back up their claim. Someone pulled it out of somewhere, choose your own somehwere.:D

[xboxundone]

Only time i have dropped call is in tower transfers when i am driving occasionally i get dropped but honestly it is rare. But i have heard of some horror stories but many ended up being a phone issue not ATT... Either way it has to bite for ATT since they were touting it hard!