AT&T continues to excel at dropping calls, according to new report

"In a poll that asked 4,040 smartphone users in March how many dropped calls they had experienced in the past three months, AT&T -- the exclusive U.S. carrier of Apple's iPhone and iPad mobile devices -- came in dead last among the country's four largest carriers."

• [ripley]

  yes, headline is weird. First in dropped calls, not last.

  AT&T is First! All the crappy service, none of the privacy.
  (I have AT&T, I’m just sad about it.)

• [alisong76]

  Wait, what?

  So if you’re in the US and you want an iPhone or iPad, you only have one carrier to choose from?

  Well that sucks.

• [Jeff]

  I just had my landline fixed by AT&T (actually a pretty painless process, to my shock.) I complained to the repair guy that his call to my cell had gotten dropped; he said, “You don’t use us for your cellular, do you? Cause that would explain why you have such lousy service.” Even they know their service sucks.

• [David Carroll]

  It would have been interesting to breakout the iPhone vs other smartphone drop rates for ATT.

  Did I read the article wrong or does ATT have an exclusive iPad 3G deal too? If you buy the iPad outright you should be able to choose your carrier.

• [Anonymous]

  Americans can be pleased with a cut off call ratio of 1.5%?

  How badly screwd up are the networks over there?

• [watchout5]

  I have AT&T, it won’t even hold internet radio on my blackberry, it sounds like a skipping CD 90% of the time. Calls are the same way, I seem to get less coverage when the bus goes under a tree, or over the aurora bridge. It’s a horrible service, I’d recommend carrier pidgins before I recommend ATT.

• [Anonymous]

  I actually thought about switching to AT&T only for the iPhone. I am glad that I didn’t. AT&T is notorious for dropping calls and even not delivering text messages!

• [Anonymous]

  Interesting fact, Ive had AT&T for years and I have never experienced a dropped call.

• [Robert]

  I think you mean they came in first in dropping calls, or last in not dropping calls.

  • [mdh]

    The entire quoted body of this post is from the link.

    So why tell our hosts how fortune.com bloggers ought to be phrasing things?

  • [Glenn Fleishman]

    First in bore, first in pieces, first looking through the blinds of their countrymen.

• [Anonymous]

  It still amuses me that the US mobile phone system is so bad that the number of dropped calls can actually be a selling point.

• [vetnoir]

  Does this result actually surprise anyone?