Assuming Karma is a real thing, I doubt it pertains to the business decisions of cell phone companies. It's not like they're killing kittens...

AT&T knew that the CES Hall would be flooded with iPhones, so they beefed up their network. I had pretty good reception Wednesday-Friday when I was there and was satisfied...at CES.

HOWEVER, my hotel (the Flamingo) was a dead zone, as was much of the strip. Calls that I would finally get out were dropped within 2 minutes and data was non-existent. There was a medical issue with a family member and it took them 3 hours to get a hold of me.

AT&T has to bulk up their network throughout town, not just one location. Where do they think the CES attendees go after the show?

It's an issue of attaining consistent quality. They have a huge challenge ahead of them, and I'm pleased that they do as well as they do, but they need to keep improving.

I think numbers DO matter when it comes to straining the network..

but what I'm saying is that Verizon was more consistent even when the numbers grew. That's what I meant that the numbers don't matter when it comes to consistency.. It was a bad way to phrase it.. and I understand why you guys are confused.

Totals revised: Sprint 5.5; for Verizon 1.5 points; for AT&T 1 point.

Then, during the four days in Jan., Sprint led Verizon twice and tied them once (thus, 2.5 points for Sprint; 1.5 for V.). Sprint also led AT&T three out of the four days (3.5 points Sprint; .5 points AT&T).

Results: 6 points Spring; 1.5 points Verizon; 0.5 points AT&T. Then, add December to Sprint (which is a heavy usage month). Clearly, Sprint showed greater capabilities.

I've used Pocket PC's for over a decade (HPs, Dell's, and Toshiba's). The iPhone may be great, no doubt (for some things). The HTC Touch Pro, which runs on Sprint, is a fantastic well-rounded toy-machine. Applications for CE/Windows-based electronics have been around a lot longer than all the new apps coming out for the iPhone.

Plus, you can customize them (e.g., HTC Touch line, and other similar ones) almost however you like. Expensive, sure but they're, actually, mini-laptops with phones.

In the end, whatever we opt to have will NEVER be perfect. Carrier service pricing (as well as electronics' pricing) should continue to drop - we all do and really need them to keep dropping. Lower prices would also cycle the technology faster (more people would buy more at a faster rate), and this would improve the overall industry and the services we receive.

There are... other forms... of punctuation... you know...

there will always be 1% fans for apple products... just for the sake of that 1% u dont have to bend the way...apple wants.

Although, It would be interesting to see the network usage figures for the corresponding time frames.

If you were at the grocery store, you wouldn't get in the longest line and then complain that the cashier is too slow, would you?

Of course, if the cashier is really hot, you might stand there happily, but that's another issue...

The iPhone should probably be spread across the carriers to spread the data burden. But had Apple chose Verizon (or Verizon not rejected Apple according to rumors), no one has shown any proof that Verizon would have fared any better than AT&T has.

number of phones means everything. If there are 100 iphones on a tower vs 20 Droids, what do you think will happen when they all hit the tower for data? Its very logical the number of phones taxing the towers can mean greatly slower speeds for those users. A tower can only hold so many phones on it

At&T was at least keeping pace with Verizon until Friday when ATT went over the clif.

So what was going on Friday to cause the huge crash? Rene? Anyone?

Don't compare the Iphone to blackberry .. compare it Android phones ... Android users use their data as much as Iphone users... and Droid users use it even more than the average android user..

Now granted there are not the same amount of Android phones out there as the Iphones... but that's the reality any Iphone owner or att consuemer has to deal with .. Wherever you go .. there will be a lot of Iphones ...

One thing that Verizon shows is that it can take the load better than any network .. and that has little to do with the number of phones being used ... because the consistency was kept throughout .. when you compare it to the other 3 ..

This chart also shows what I've been saying for years.. Sprint is vastly UNDERRATED as a network... if it's not the best out there.. it's 2nd to Verizon .

I am in Chicago, so as soon as there's a Wimax phone worth having, I'm in. Rumors point to an HTC version on Sprint later this year...

Now, what we don't know is how many users are pulling data from each network. I suspect at a convention like CES, there are an awful lot more iPhones pulling data than other phones. And even if you had the same number of Blackberry's and iPhones, the iPhone is rendering full webpages, while the Blackberry is showing the equivalent of text files and a compressed image.