AT&T To Verizon: “We Gotta Rap For That!”
And to be clear, that’s:
Rap, [rap] – verb –
1. Slang. to criticize sharply: Critics could hardly wait to rap the play.
2. Slang. to talk or discuss, esp. freely, openly, or volubly; chat.
not:
3. Slang. to talk rhythmically to the beat of rap music.
You undoubtedly remember the Verizon jabs at AT&T with the “There’s a map for that.” commercial. Great commercial the first couple times, I even chuckled! But AT&T did NOT chuckle – and slapped Verizon with a bit of a large trou….lawsuit. It appears it boils down to just the actual maps being depicted. It would seem the big V has been displaying a map of it’s 3G coverage (aka all it’s coverage) vs. a map of AT&T’s 3G coverage – and kindly failing to mention that in some of those huge gaps there’s 2G coverage.
AT&T says: “Hey, stop misleading consumers into thinking we don’t have any coverage at all in those areas”.
Verizon says: .. I guess?.. “Ok.”
Engadget has the full complaint if you’re interested.