Re: Feel the Instictive Pain Re: iPhone Killer for the CDMA crowd - well at least Sprint

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:12:13 -0600, Todd Allcock
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> wrote:

>At 22 Jun 2008 18:19:25 -0500 Ron wrote:
>
>> BOGUS STATISTICS !!!!
>> 
>> >http://www.cellular-news.com/story/22188.php
>> >
>> >Which Carrier Is Winning the War On Fewest Dropped Calls?
>> >
>> >With all major wireless carriers claiming to offer the fewest dropped 
>> >calls, wireless management services provider mindWireless used its 
>> >database of call data to research the facts of the claims. Using a 
>> >sample of more than 80 million calls placed and received between
January 
>> >1, 2006 and June 30, 2006, mindWireless found Sprint, followed by 
>> >Cingular's legacy AT&T Wireless to have the fewest number of dropped 
>> >calls, nearly 50 percent behind Verizon, the carrier claiming the
best, 
>> >most reliable network.
>> 
>> 
>> Except they werent measuring dropped calls. They were measuring what
>> they assumed to be an approximation of dropped calls. A duplicate call
>> placed within 2 minutes.
>
>True...
> 
>> I often place calls to relatives that also have AT&T and manys the
>> time within 2 minutes I think of something else I forgot to say and
>> call them back. But those calls would have been counted as dropped
>> calls.
>
>
>Yes- but in all likelihood, those "benign" callbacks would happen equally
>across all carriers.  Therefore, the "extra" callbacks users of some
>carriers experienced either indicate another reason for callbacks, such
as
>dropped calls.  Either that or Verizon's and T-Mo's customers are far
more
>forgetful than Sprint's as a whole, and think of more things to say after
>hanging up... 
>


You are just guessing here. We have no way to know.