Sprint has great coverage where I live so most likely I will be leaving Verizon. I can get so much more with Sprint for the same price and Verizon has dropped the ball on phones so far this year and they keep getting more restrictive.

I’m sorry that I insulted you? I wasn’t attacking you in any way whatsoever, nor was I defending Verizon or Apple or whatever it is you think I was doing. If simply stating the reason why Verizon chose CDMA over GSM offends you, then I am truly sorry. However, I am not sorry for what I will say next: You clearly have no grasp on reality. I will respond in turn to all of your “points” that you have rebutted with. You don’t have service where you used to? I am 100% sure that you left AT&T because you wanted more service, and that you probably gained more service than you lost. If you lost service where you use your phone the most, switch to another carrier (the point of having phone service is to use the phone, not pledge carrier allegiance)! Blaming Verizon for incompatible service in Europe is just plain ignorant and childish; you seem to be the type of person that also bitched and moaned to hotel concierge in Europe because they chose 240V electric service instead of 120V service, which renders your American out-of-the-box electronic chargers not to fit in their sockets. I also don’t know what you think multi-task means because that would require you to breathe, blink, and use your brain at the same time to understand simple concepts (your brain processor is too overloaded just to breathe and blink concurrently)! Ever hear of the home button on your smartphone? Try making a phone call and push it…what happens next may blow your mind! It’s probably worse to criticize Verizon for phones…they offer cellular service; that is, if you criticize Apple for not having coverage in your area, then I am just plumb tuckered out to decide which company would be worse to criticize. Irrational reasoning? Jumbo shrimp. I chose a Droid X, that’s why I’m better. My dad chose Verizon. The incremental cost of their plans to the massive increase in service is probably the most imbalanced business practice I know of and I would pay even more per month so I have service everywhere I go, especially when it comes to streaming pandora, using my navigator, sending and receiving txt messages (motospeak) all while driving down all the interstate, state and county roads in Ohio (oops, did I just refer to that mythical beast called multi-tasking again)?! And by significant shortcomings, you mean having to share my carrier with people like you, right? Oh, I missed one of your points…and I actually agree with you on this one…you truly are the dumb one.

Use your critical thinking skills when reading posts, you will make all of our lives easier.

And really, switch carriers if you don’t have good service, that’s what being a smart consumer is all about. Really. Please.

I’ve been reading many of the responses here and I just wanted to throw in my two cents, to those of you that think “any” provider has true 4G speeds I’m sorry to report you are sadly mistaken, I’m a network specialist, I develop and implement network topology. The term 4G is only relevant to download speeds in excess of 100mbps, anything else I’m sorry to say is simply a poser lol. I tip my hat off to those for their research but from a true network standpoint no carrier hits that speed, the cost alone would be insane to implement a topology of that magnitude, let alone maintain it. Now to the T mobile haters I applaud you as well they truly have no right to take a shot at a company like Verizon considering Verizon could “smash” their network without breaking a sweat, but Verizon customers I ask do you really think you’re paying for better service? I can tell you that that data rate that carriers pay is going down later this year…..So in short you’re paying more for non 4G speeds and lower data rates. Don’t get me wrong I think Verizon has a massive network but there customer service is terrible to say the least and their business practices as far as dealing with regular consumers is a little shady, whereas a large business they have relationships with they roll out the red carpet. I applaud Verizon for their accomplishments they have become one of the biggest wireless companies, but they by far are NOT the best. T-Mobile is ok if you want really cheap service and well frankly AT&T in the near future lol, AT&T has fallen from grace themselves they in my opinion are no longer a match for Verizon they simply do not put the recourses back into their network, they are to focused on that over priced U-verse nonsense. Sprint is a strong company they have service practically everywhere and there pricing is flexible to suit anyone. I have been on every carrier except for Alltel when they were basically what T-Mobile is now lmao, no one is perfect they all have their ups and downs.

Couldn’t have said it any better myself

that speed test was in bits 4G in bits would be 200
a bit is 1/8th a byte