Anyone who has AT&T service in a major market has come to accept the outrageous dropped call percentage [1]. AT&T conveniently blames the iPhone for this “recent” problem, but I had this problem with AT&T 5 years ago when I owned a simple Motorola V400 flip phone. At that time AT&T blamed the V400 for the dropped calls. My girlfriend owned two different Nokia flip phone models, both on AT&T, both before the iPhone was ever released. She suffered the same outrageous dropped call percentage I experienced with my V400. AT&T claimed that not one, but both of her Nokia phones were the reason for the dropped calls. In both of our cases they recommended purchasing a different model phone (which also carried a new contract). Noticing a pattern? The problem was especially ironic when they were running their “fewest dropped calls” ad campaign.

Now the iPhone is the bad guy … and because of its immense popularity it doesn’t seem like the blame will be shifted anytime soon. Guess what AT&T, I’m not buying into your lies. Having been a customer for over 6 years now (I was a customer before AT&T purchased Cingular), I can say without a doubt that the issues began to surface within weeks of the Cingular buyout, and have existed long before the iPhone was even a product.

Experiencing a high rate of dropped calls? Tweet about it buy pasting the below into your status feed: “Hey AT&T – you just dropped another one of my calls #ATTdrop”. If you would like to include your mobile device manufacturer name/model then paste the following: “Hey AT&T – you just dropped another one of my calls while using a #ATTdrop”, replacing with your phone model.

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[1] http://gizmodo.com/5370493/apple-genius-bar-iphones-30-call-drop-is-normal-in-new-york