The AT&T,Verizon Drama Continues: Verizon Responds that Its Ads are The Truth

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

After AT&T’s court filings over recent Verizon ads, Verizon responded with its own legal response.

"AT&T did not file this lawsuit because Verizon’s ‘There’s A Map For That’ advertisements are untrue; AT&T sued because Verizon’s ads are true and the truth hurts."

Just like its ads, Verizon is being aggressive in upholding its stance that their ads are factually correct. This legal response contains some strong words toward AT&T’s complaint. The introductory statement even sounds like a PR attempt to further attack and mock AT&T’s wireless network capabilities.

Verizon continues in its court filing:

"In the final analysis, AT&T seeks emergency relief because Verizon’s side-by-side, apples-to-apples comparison of its own 3G coverage with AT&T’s confirms what the marketplace has been saying for months: AT&T failed to invest adequately in the necessary infrastructure to expand its 3G coverage to support its growth in smartphone business and the usefulness of its service to smartphone users has suffered accordingly. AT&T may not like the message that the ads send, but this Court should reject its efforts to silence the messenger."

AT&T took Verizon to court in recent weeks as a string of commercials featured a side by side 3G coverage of Verizon and AT&T’s wireless network. AT&T claimed that Verizon played unfair and portrayed AT&T as a wireless network that do not have any wireless coverage in most parts of U.S. AT&T has since released an official statement to explain the “misleading information” shown on Verizon’s anti-AT&T commercials.

It looks like that battle between the big 2 Ma Bells will continue to get more interesting. Now that both sides have made their case, the rest is up to the courts to determine who is right.

This is a post by The Apps Machine