On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:18:43 -0700, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
wrote in <4603fdf3$0$27170$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>:

>DTC wrote:
>> SMS wrote:
>> > In *all areas of the country* Verizon coverage was better than Cingular
>> > service in the most extensive independent surveys.
>>
>> John Navas wrote:
>>> My observations are based on numerous carefully-controlled tests of
>>> multiple handsets throughout the *greater San Francisco Bay Area*.
>>
>> Apples to oranges
>
>Worse than apples to oranges.
>
>We're comparing independent surveys with tens of thousands of
>respondents and an extremely low margin of error,

Hard to tell what you have in mind with that kind of vague hand waving
(as usual), but presumably you are again mischaracterizing the Consumers
Union survey, which (as I've explained several times) suffers from
serious flaws:
* Non-representative population
* Self-selected sample
* Small sample size when broken down by region
* Improper methods (e.g., lumping together D-AMPS and GSM,
ENS and non-ENS, iDEN and CDMA2000)
* Poor methodology
The tarnished credibility of Consumers Union is also apparent from the
child seat and other recent debacles:
<http://www.detroitnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070119/AUTO01/701190403/1148>

>with the alleged
>experiences of a single user, a user that has a long history of
>fabricating stories.

In stooping to ad hominem (as usual), you show your own position to be
weak, and effectively concede the argument

>He is absolutely insanely angry that no independent
>surveys support his shilling.

In fact I've pointed to JDPowers as the best available data, which shows
relatively small differences between carriers, on the order of the
sampling error.

>[Copied to alt.cellular.attws. Please post all alt.cellular.cingular
>posts to alt.cellular.attws as well. The Cingular name is going away,
>and alt.cellular.attws is the proper venue for posts regarding AT&T's
>Wireless Service.]

Please stop polluting alt.cellular.attws with incomplete cross-posting
of alt.cellular.cingular threads -- what you are doing is childish and
rude.

--
Best regards, SEE THE FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS AT
John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>