Caption contest: the Verizon van makes a pit stop
By Nilay Patel 
posted June 22nd 2010 2:30PM
posted June 22nd 2010 2:30PM
Nilay: "So... do you have the iPhone?"
Ross: "Hey, we ran out of markers coloring our 3G coverage map, can we borrow yours?"
Richard Lai: "Stealth sabotage fail."
Chris: "Can you hear me now, [censored]?"
Thomas: "Trust me, I just need help lifting this couch into the van."
Sean Hollister: "Stick together -- it's the T-Mobile way."
Vlad: "And this, dear friends, is where all your phone tariffs are calculated, negotiated, and determined. Yay, free market!"
Tim: "Ten years ago, a crack wireless unit was kicked out of Bell Atlantic for a crime it didn't commit. This group promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the FCC, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The V-Team."
Laura: "There's like, a map for this, right?"
Darren: "Hey, someone has to mop the floors around here, right?"
Joanna: "Rumor: Verizon to get rollover minutes!"
Paul: "What the world needs now..."
Myriam: "Hey man, I have some great speakers to sell you real cheap."
[Thanks, Brad]
"Time to finish the job."
@N900
Now we know how they get "more bars in more places"
@N900 We're trying to get back to our roots, so we're here for the seminar on how to rip off your customers and base all of your success on one phone.
@N900
"Quick! Make a pit stop! I think we have coverage."
@SolidSnake
"Surprisingly, Verizon gets better coverage at that location than AT&T"
@N900 "Hi, I'm here to install FIOS."
@N900 "All your bars are belong to us"
@N900
Please excuse the long hold times, Android training in progress.
@PlatinumSkeet Like Antarctica, in case you get lost and go to Antarctica, you'll have service, we sent 100 employees to their deaths putting up cell lines so you can make calls if your fingers will move enough to dial
@(Unverified)
Installing FIOS on their own backbone.. Actually Most everyone goes back through AT&T! Any company you know, uses AT&T Backbones!!! YOU CANNOT BE WITHOUT!!!
@N900 Gunboat diplomacy
@Apple is the best company in the
AT&T is the best network on the planet, so far.
Verizon has been dropping my calls urgh.
No wander Apple don't want to make an iPhone for them.
@Apple is the best company in the
trololo successful.
@Apple is the best company in the
I have Verizon too, and I get dropped calls. But it's my phone, not Verizon.
@Apple is the best company in the
You should be shot
@Apple is the best company in the
Droid DOES not drop calls!!!!
Hi, I hear you have an issue managing bandwidth? Let us show you how it's done.
@VSpike915
Yes, it does.
Alot of times.
AT&T is far superior than Verizon.
I guess you never used AT&T in NYC, or L.A. My friend with an iPhone 3G is always complaining how he keeps loosing 3G signal and keeps asking me to look something up for him.
Maybe he was dropping off some phones since AT&T doesn't have coverage there?
@Apple is the best company in the
**Verizon sends in a "mechanic".**
"ok so one more time, we put on these Nixon halloween masks, run in waving these toy guns in the air to scare them, snatch their iPhones, and drive away... there's no way we can get identified! ..right?"
@LiveFromThe215
really laughed out out loud on that one
@Apple is the best company in the yea but att isn't good seriously
"check mark" done.
@Apple is the best company in the
diaf
so i hear you guys need help fixing your 3G
@New Reformation
AT&T sends in an iPhone.
Maybe they stopped through to show them how to make a great Android phone
LOL wow I do wonder though
@ajac09
Not too uncommon though. I worked for AT&T for a bit and our phone systems were done through Verizon. So yeah, it wasn't all that odd to see Verizon trucks in our parking lot every now and then doing work in our building.
@fshannon
I think they're having lunch together and reminiscing about the good ol' days when everyone had a landline and they how they use to laugh at the wireless divisions of their companies. Oh how times have changed...
P.A. Announcer- "can someone please remove their vehicle out of Ralph Vegas parking spot...thank you"
@Apple is the best company in the Have you even seen an android device in person? Doubt it.
AT&T using coaxial, I think not...
@Apple is the best company in the
Where the Hell is TOPOLSKY's COMMENT?
Can you hear me n--*blam blam*
"Boss, the Verizon guys are here to fix our network"
@Apple is the best company in the
Droid does a replaceable battery
Droid does connect to a network
Droid does receive and make calls
I could keep going on and on
You dumbass fanboy I hate fanbois
@Rami98 No your a dumbass android fanboy hypocrite, cause the iPhone in fact connects to AT&T 3G in some areas and does in fact make calls (shock!) does not have a removable battery but you can get plug in batteries and the design is completely compact, "apple is the greatest..." is a dumbass but you are a fanboy too
Seeing that that is a ATT cooperate location. And not a ATT Wireless location I'm willing go bet that Verizon has fiber running there
@DefPoet or bought that building from AT&T and never bothered with the logo its not for consumers, especially since it's the much older ATT logo.
@zepfloyd
Yupp that's the logo they used in the late 90's. I used to see it every time my dad took me to work with him at ATT Trident in Atlanta
Actually this isn't THAT funny. This picture looks like a colocation facility, which if any of you were aware contains MANY different carriers equipment...thats how the internet works. Duh. This facility probably contains Verizon equipment that hands off to AT&T or vice-versa. Thousands of these locations throughout the country.
@sixth
Exactly... This has been blown out of proportion...
@TheTabe I don't think you need to create an accurate impression to have a caption contest, it's here for entertainment, not controversy/fire.
@sixth My Lord, Buzz Killington...it wasn't supposed to be logical or accurate, just pointless fun. Damn.
@sixth This is probably an area where AT&T is the ILEC and Verizon is the CLEC.
@sixth
It's humorous, even if there's a logical reason for it. Stop being such a tightarse and have some fun!
"Mysterious van explodes outside AT&T building, Taliban claim responsibility "