AT&T Comments On Dropped Call Statistics

When Steve Jobs stood on stage last week and explained what was happening with the iPhone 4's antenna (or, the whole mobile industry, if you really want to look at the presentation), he mentioned that the dropped call statistics from AT&T weren't available at the time. Well, looks like that's over and done with, because the month of May's results have just been outed, and all because a website went out of their way to run their own poll.

The site, Tech-Ex, asked its readers to confide their deepest, darkest AT&T secrets: how often do your calls get dropped? The results weren't pretty: 4.5%, versus Verizon's results, which stood at 1.5%, all in the month of March. Someone at AT&T must have seen the posted results, because a spokesperson for the second largest wireless carrier in the United States spoke up.

According to the spokesperson, AT&T still delivers the nation's fastest 3G, while only dropping 1.44% of calls nationwide. That equals to be about two-tenths of 1 percent to the industry leader, or less than two calls out of 1,000. So, while a small number of folks responded to a poll, and the number reached a staggering 4.5%, it looks like AT&T's data shows a very, very different story. Of course, through the public's perception, that higher number would probably make more sense. But, the main question still stands: is AT&T still doing everything they can to strengthen their network?

[via Tech-Ex]