- AT&T are the only one building standard GSM across the whole US, they are building a real cell phone network that can run all of the world’s phones (Verizon can run less than 1% of the world’s phones)

- AT&T supplements their 3G with the largest Wi-Fi network in the US and their phones all have their Wi-Fi intact (Verizon has been pulling the Wi-Fi out of everything for years, even Blackberry)

- AT&T is only about 2 years old, in spite of the name, they are younger than the iPhone, which was introduced on Cingular (Verizon is much older, yet still has not adopted GSM)

- the AT&T/GSM model already won, it’s the way cell phones are sold in the 21st century: you choose any phone you like, you pay $X per month to get carrier service for it, but Verizon is still pretending that people shop for networks and not phones

- AT&T’s network is just the US part of a global cell network, when you’re on AT&T you can travel the world with your phone, US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, China, Japan, and so on

To me, Verizon and Sprint are not even in the cell phone game. They are off to the side playing a sucker game, charging people the same kinds of prices but giving them much, much less.