{"id":17891,"date":"2010-05-05T15:12:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T14:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/?p=17891"},"modified":"2010-05-05T18:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T17:14:00","slug":"its-official-att-has-the-most-reported-dropped-calls-of-any-us-mobile-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/05\/its-official-att-has-the-most-reported-dropped-calls-of-any-us-mobile-network\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Official: AT&#038;T Has the Most Reported Dropped Calls Of Any US Mobile Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have an iPhone? In the US? .. If you&#8217;re not unlocked, you&#8217;ll likely notice that AT&#038;T isn&#8217;t the best of networks. In new research <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleinsider.com\/articles\/10\/05\/05\/att_customers_claim_most_dropped_calls_least_satisfaction.html\" target=\"_blank\">published today<\/a> though, AT&#038;T may just be the worst of the lot. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to @AppleInsider, ChangeWave Research today released results of a study of which it conducted on 4,040 smartphone subscribers in the US, in March of this year &#8211; and of those, the study found approximately <strong>4.5 percent<\/strong> of calls had been dropped over the last three months. Now, 5% doesn&#8217;t sound staggering, but put that against the amount of iPhones that have currently been sold in the US, which according to AdMob <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electronista.com\/articles\/09\/07\/23\/admob.june.2009\/\" target=\"_blank\">stood at 25M<\/a> in June 2009, and you start to get the bigger picture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/111315-dropped_calls.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In fact, this study found that of all the US mobile networks, AT&#038;T were the worst for dropped calls over the last 3 months, with the study favoring Verizon. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;AT&#038;T was clearly the worst in the March survey, tacking on yet another increase over the latest ChangeWave research survey. Furthermore, a closer look at the trends show an increasing number of dropped calls among AT&#038;T customers surveyed, and a steadily decreasing number of dropped calls for Verizon customers.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The iPhone was rumored to be <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/03\/30\/verizon-iphone\/\" target=\"_blank\">coming to Verizon<\/a> this year (or next), however this rumor has yet to have any truth to it.<\/p>\n<p>[via @AppleInsider]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have an iPhone? In the US? .. If you&#8217;re not unlocked, you&#8217;ll likely notice that AT&#038;T isn&#8217;t the best of networks. However in new research published today, AT&#038;T may actually be the worst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,16],"tags":[2430,1712,2429,3501,2428],"class_list":["post-17891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-iphone","tag-apple-insider","tag-att","tag-dropped-calls","tag-iphone","tag-signal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17891"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17928,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17891\/revisions\/17928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}