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Sprint Wants Your IPhone Remember the map wars between AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless? Sprint Nextel thought it looked l
Sprint Wants Your IPhone Remember the map wars between AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless? Sprint Nextel thought it looked l
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2016-06-30
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Sprint Wants Your IPhone
Remember the map wars between AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless? Sprint Nextel thought it looked like great fun, and it’s joined the fracas with a direct-attack ad of its own.
A new Sprint ad shows two young dudes lounging on a park bench—or rather, one guy lounges while the other is frantically battling his cell phone. That phone turns out to be an Apple iPhone, and as it turns out, the more relaxed guy, Matt, can help his buddy out.
"My friend Steve’s iPhone is cool, but it’s limited to AT&T’s 3G speeds," he says. "So I’m gonna use the Overdrive 4G mobile hotspot to make it up to 10 times faster. While that’s happening, I’m gonna enjoy this tasty snack." He pulls out a Sprint-connected portable Wi-Fi hotspot and—of course—a tasty apple, and Steve’s 3G troubles are over.
Cue the legal fireworks. If AT&T got incensed over Verizon using AT&T’s own 3G coverage maps as a weapon, you have to think that this no-nonsense critique of the AT& T network will cause some aggravation as well.
Verizon could at least back its claims with some solid data, even if AT&T’s spotty coverage has reportedly improved since then. Sprint is picking cherries to climb the Apple tree here. That "10 times the speed" claim rests on a worst-case 3G connection and the most positive 4G data Sprint can muster on its own network. "Triple the speed" might be closer to the truth on average.
Besides, Sprint’s 4G network has only opened up in 33 cities so far, with a heavy Midwestern concentration. Major population centres like San Francisco and New York, where AT&T’s network quality has drawn the most fury so far, are not covered at all—so Matt’s clever solution wouldn’t help Steve at all in most cases. Sprint’s own coverage information will make that very clear if you try to order an Overdrive gadget.
With iPhones, iPads, and Google Androids flooding the market, all the major service providers need to figure out how to handle heavy Web use and streaming video for previously unheard-of millions of customers nationwide. This Sprint trinket and the accompanying ad campaign seems designed to steal iPhone users from AT&T, but Sprint isn’t really ready to take most of them on anyway.
By the time Sprint has covered most of the country, chances are that Verizon and AT&T have gotten their own 4G installations in gear. After the undisputed failure of the Palm Pre smartphone, Android handsets look like better ammunition for Sprint’s war against the Big Two than the 4G network is.
Which did not happen between AT&T and Verizon?
选项
A、Verizon used AT&T’s own 3G coverage maps to indicate its incompetence.
B、Verizon used its own 3G coverage maps to indicate AT&T’s incompetence.
C、There was a lawsuit between these two parties.
答案
B
解析
题干意为:哪一项叙述没有在AT&T公司和Verizon公司之间发生过?A项意为:Verizon公司用AT&T公司自己的3G网络覆盖图证实其业务能力差,B项意为:Verizon公司用自己的3G网络覆盖图证实AT&T公司业务能力差,C项意为:两家公司间曾有诉讼案件。原文第四段第一行指出:“据说曾经发生的法律纠纷。AT&T公司曾经因为Verizon公司使用AT&T公司自己的3G网络覆盖图来攻击它们的服务而感到愤怒……”。由此可以推断出A项内容与原文一致,C项内容也是事实,只有B项在原文没有提及,故答案为B。
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