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

Ron <ronclifford@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> amazed us all with the following in
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> On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:21:27 -0400, George <george@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
> 
>>Ron wrote:
>>> On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:12:13 -0600, Todd Allcock
>>> <elecconnec@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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.
>>> 
>>Actually we do but we can't see the data that is logged for internal 
>>use. The system knows the difference between a drop and an actual 
>>termination.
> 
> 
> We all know Sprint is stuck with the inferior PCS band of 1900 MHz
> which results in greater attention and less of a reach from their
> towers and far poorer building penetration.

No- we all know the data as it has been presented.  Sprint was found to 
have the fewest potential dropped calls.  Any deviation from the true 
numbers would be equally shared by all carriers.

Now go take your medicine- your paranoia is starting to show again.