How is Verizon #1 with all the negative press it's getting lately? I've hardly heard a bad thing about Alltel.

Actually Verizon has the least amount of churn. Meaning that it actually KEEPS it's customers.

Now I sell phones and I don't have Verizon personally but we sell all the cellphone carriers and Verizon has always been the least returned.

We'll see what happens when the iPhone is released with AT&T in June. When Verizon customers find out that they can end their contract without cancellation fees due to the increase in the text message rates, it's going to put AT&T back in the lead.

What I don't like about Verizon is their use of CDMA. Cingular/ATT use GSM which lets me take my phone to just about any country. All I have to do is slip in a SIM card.

I really dislike the control CDMA gives providors. The consumers' rights should be held first, not the corporations'.

"It's the NETWORK."

.....Well, hell. I was hoping I was going to get to play classic Mortal Combat on my work Bat-phone!

.....Down-up-PUNNNNCH! "Get OOOOVER here!" /roundhouse kick...

@Meatloaf: The window to getting out ended on March 1. Whoever is there now is stuck there until Verizon decides to hike the data rate or some other charge. 'tis only a matter of time...

That's not really that surprising considering that AT&T is involved in spying and, even worse, when it was discovered, their response was to change their privacy policy to say that they own all your data and can do what they want with it.

I hope they go out of business.

@AcidReign:

It's actually back-forward punch.

"Verizon Regains Lead In Wireless Subscribers; Sprint Gets Some Good News"

Okay, I understand the title, but what was the good news for Sprint?

The last two paragraphs sound like bad news to me, and I can't think of a more deserving company for that kind of "good news".

@AcidReign:
I always choose to finish up the move with the uppercut (down, punch) rather than a roundhouse, personally.

This is probably due to the fact that Verizon is a reliable provider, and everyone I know (including myself) who has had them has stuck with them and been happy to stay with them.

I have verizon. im sticking with them more now after getting the 9400 and mobile tv. I was thinking of switching to cing for the iphone but having the 9400 the iphone cant hold a candle to it, imo.
with alltel, they dont service the whole country. when their commercials first came out, I considered going with them. But when I put my zip code it, the site said they dont service my area. so there went alltel.
verizon also is getting the new blackberry that has both cdma and gsm if you are so inclined have verizon and take it with you out of the country. for me, i have an unlocked phone waiting in the wings just in case i get to go overseas.

Cingular ended 2006 with 61 million and Verizon with 59.1 million. This is just talking about direct retail subscribers. Cingular has a big chunk of the government and major businesses.

Verizon had 56.8 million retail subscribers and Cingular had 56.3 retail subscribers at the end of 2006. This isn't saying that NOW Verizon has more customers, because it doesn't, but at the end of 2006, Verizon had more "general public" subscribers than Cingular. We still have to wait until Q1 2007 Reports to see who's in the lead at the moment.

I allways find the situation with Verizon and AT&T somewhat ironic, since Verizon is one of the Baby Bells, all grown up.

As far as the iPhone making a difference, it'll have fad appeal, but really, its just a phone that can play music, and do a little computing. The most 'revolutionary' thing about it is that it has a 'big' screen. And since its going to cost, what, $1k (as I beleive I read on other COnsumerist articles?), who's really going to go for it? Especially since so many already have iPods?