More Bars in More Places...or Not?

*(No names will be changed to protect the "innocent", because we all know AT&T is crappy. Only the "girl" will remain anonymous)

Once upon a time, there was a girl who had a mediocre phone (a Blackberry) with a great cellular company called Sprint. She loved her cell phone service. It worked no matter where she was and never dropped a single call in over 8 years. All was well in the world because she could literally make a phone call whenever, wherever, without having to worry.

Then it happened: Apple unveiled the greatest thing to ever hit the cellular world.  It was the iPhone. It was dazzling and could do just about anything her laptop could do...and more! It was the king of all phones. But it was on a different network. It was on AT&T. She cursed Apple for giving their superior phone to such an inferior network, and swore that she wouldn't switch to AT&T just for a phone.

After the iPhone had been around for about a year, Apple did it yet again: they released an even better version of their amazing phone! The girl couldn't believe it!! This phone could do much more than it's counterpart...she had to have one. Besides, sometimes you have to compromise, and AT&T claimed that they had the most coverage and best service than any other network. "More bars in more places".  She decided to give it a try. She left Sprint (and the crappy Blackberry) behind and moved on to Apple and the iPhone.

After getting her new phone, the girl noticed a few things. First, she could be at home, downtown Nashville, and have no service. None. She also noticed that she would be talking on the phone and all of a sudden the call would get dropped. "Call Failed" would be the blinking icon on her screen. "Funny," she would say, "I was just talking and the call was going just fine.  What happened?"  It didn't take long for the girl to become annoyed, something she was never with her previous network. She couldn't go anywhere without having calls dropped and no service.  How could this be? She saw the commercials that showed that AT&T covered "97% of the US", but somehow she found herself always in that other 3%. Even in major US cities! And what was even more bizarre was that the service didn't seem to be improving at all. In fact, it felt as if it was getting slower and worse!  It was "no bars in all places".

Then Apple made a big announcement that they would be releasing yet another new, superior phone. And the rumor (or maybe it was just more of a hope) was that it would be released from it's contractual obligations with AT&T, and would be available on Verizon, the much better network.  The girl had high hopes that it was true. She would gladly give crappy AT&T the $150 it would cost her to get out of her contract early if it meant that she could get the new phone with service that would actually work! But alas, it was too good to be true. Apple stayed with AT&T, even when during a demonstration of the new phone, AT&T's "service" reared it's ugly head and showed the whole world what it was capable of: absolutely nothing. 

Today, the girl still has the same iPhone with the same crappy service. She continues to look forward to the day when Apple will realize that it needs a superior network to go with it's superior phone.

The End.