Media and and many people saying that the Verizon iPhone will jam their network as bad as Apple is not necessarily true. They claimed the sheer amount of data blogged the network of At&t when the iPhone first come out will do the same to Verizon. I think this is a misconception. Which smart phone does not hog the bandwidth? The real reason is that At&T is subsidising every purchase of the iphone and thus the more sale they make, the more capital is drained to buy Apple devices instead of expanding their network at the beginning. It's a pay forward model they bet on and hopefully will regain the money during the course of the contract. Even though Verizon does the same subsidizing purchase market technique , but learning the LOUD complaints about AT&T, Verizon should have taken note of this and could have planned ahead. However, I am not sure whether Verizon has already planned ahead. In NY, I think Verizon will definitely be a better choice than ANY AT&T devices because the signal strength of Verizon in general is a lot stronger than At&T. Along the main street Flushing and near the LIE, the current AT&T signal is only about 1-2 bar outside of the building(don't even wanna talk about the basement!!!) Verizon phone gets about 3-4 bars in the basement of my house. So even if the processing speed got jam up by the "SHEER" volume by the new customers, the signal strength by itself already beaten AT&T. According to the latest statistics, they say AT&T is only having problems in large metro area (plus the 3% of US that AT&T claimed is not covered.) Unfortunately, I live one such big Metro area. How many cities in US are considered not BIG metro areas, I wondered. I should stay in Florida Disney more from now on. I did not experience any problem with my At&T iPhone even driving in Florida while I have problem with it walking in NY. May be, I should just move across the river and stay in a nto so BIG metro area.
One other note, in these couple years, I think At&T has only erected couple new towers around little Italy(and one more location in whole NYC which I did not remember) for that many new iPhone customers they picked up in NYC.
Once you get a hold of that bog screen and see the phone do it's thing in person it's sweet.
