My Continued Love for AT&T

After the orange multi-million blanket ad fiasco for AT&T, we now are forced to watch little orange people traveling around. Orange paper people, holding hands, how cute and meaningful. Nothing about the phones, just about their supposed coverage. Maybe in some parts of this country, your service works fine. Here in New York, it just plain sucks. And little orange people walking around? Come on!

And their claim to fame is their 97% coverage. I would love to invite them to my home or office and see first hand how much they suck. I live on a top floor of an apartment building. In order to make a call, I have to stick my head out the kitchen window to get a signal. The only place in my apartment where I get a semi-signal and the 50% call drop issue. I guess I just happened to choose the 3% area they don’t reach.And being on a top floor should be an advantage, right?

Don’t want to get all math on you but indulge me a moment.

There are 54,475 square miles in New York State (estimated a total of 3,537,441 square miles in the U.S.) A mere 22.7 in Manhattan. Three percent of that total in Manhattan is about a half mile.

So I am just horrible at choosing working and living places. These numbers mean that there are only 2,640 square feet on the entire island of Manhattan that AT&T claims not to cover. My apartment is about 1,400 square feet. My office about 10,000 square feet, a total of 11,400. So in theory, at 97% coverage (11,058 square feet should be covered, leaving a mere 342 feet that my phone should not work perfectly here in NYC. Do the apartment math, there is only 1 square foot where it works there.

So I think some of those number counters should stop feeding the advertising people these blatantly false advertising claims, and stop treating us like idiots. This is one company that needs some real clean up. And put money into the towers, not the advertising. Not impressive, just insulting.