AT&T Takes Verizon to Court Over 'There's a Map for That' Ads

Nov 4th, 2009 - PC World

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AT&T Takes Verizon to Court Over 'There's a Map for That' Ads

Verizon Wireless has been bashing AT&T and its products lately, in both its "There's a map for that" adssnarking about AT&Ts 3G coverage and the "Droid does" campaign that says the iPhone is a bag of limitations. Now AT&T is bashing back-in court.

(See related: Hey AT&T: The Courts Can't Fix Your 3G Network)

As Engadget is reporting, the company is saying that"There's a map for that" misleads consumers with coverage maps that show what seems to be great swaths of the U.S. with no AT&T coverage, when in fact most of those areas have 2G coverage, but no 3G.

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