/ Xeni Jardin / 1:40 pm Wed May 5, 2010

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."

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

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

    1. 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?

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

  3. 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.

  5. 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.)

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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!

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

    How badly screwd up are the networks over there?

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

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