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AT&T spends money making a terrible commercial insulting Verizon rather than improving their network

Categories: AT&T
By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 2:37 AM

AT&T made the commercial below to get back at Verizon Wireless for airing commercials that point out AT&T’s lacking 3G coverage. Not only is AT&T’s commercial stupid, but the money they spent hiring some actor who has a rather familiar face, sadly his name escapes me at the moment, plus production costs, could have instead been poured into something more useful such as improving the actual network Verizon is mocking. Don’t forget to add the court fees as well. AT&T is acting like a silly little teenage bitch, almost as bad as that (ultra potty word removed) from “My Super Sweet 16″ who said her mother ruined her life by buying her a Lexus.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Don Louie

    Owen Wilson is the actor

  • BigLinuxGuy

    Dude, they’re creating jobs to stimulate the economy. :-)

    Do you think they’ve stopped working on their network just to film a silly commercial? This is just part of the pre-holiday sales pissing contest. Get used to it. :-)

  • Jay

    It’s actually Luke Wilson.

  • iamclayscholes

    it’s actually Luke Wilson. ;)

    AT&T’s network is awful. i’m sad that i’m locked into a 2 year contract.
    Anyone want to donate the cancellation fee?

  • jj

    I actually like the commercial. and At&t is pretty good… verizon pays ppl to spread hate against at&t… I mean if a network has close to 83 million customers i don’t think their network is that bad.. and the verizon map is just their coverage map, verizon doesn’t even use 3G I unlock the blackberry storm didn’t even attach itself to 3G just 2.5…verizon is just spreading lies and the ETF now $350? are you serious? I’ll stick with At&T…

  • iamclayscholes

    AT&T’s “3G” is a joke. I use a Nokia N86 from the UK [therefore Edge only in the US] and it runs just as fast as my AT&T “3G” E71x.

    it’s pathetic.

  • Kevin

    Guy you realize that it is AT&T’s network that set the limitation on that storm you were using. Buying a Verizon phne and using it on a worse network is pointless. And yes Verizon has had “3G” since Sprint launched their’s (the first two companies to launch it. Dumb people like yourself should stay with AT&T.

  • Surferboy

    ok to everyone out there at&t dose have great service and i am a proud owener of a iphone i love it and i love the service, and 3G is great idk what the crap everyone is talking about, it being crapy lies just lies, Verizon is spreading lies, dount be like them and yes the commercial was funny :P