Engadget is reporting that the wireless carrier war is really heating up, with AT&T firing right back at Verizon (after their legal request for an injunction on Verizon’s commercials was denied!):

C’mon, really, AT&T? Really? You have roughly 1/4 the 3G coverage of Verizon and all you can say is your 3G coverage is faster? Really? That’s like saying your car can totally smoke any other car out there–but only runs on a quarter of the roads. And here’s a little news flash for you: UMTS and HSDPA may be faster than EV-DO rev. A, but it ain’t that much faster–and besides, the way you’ve implemented it, it’s actually slower. Munch on that. Oh–and did I mention EV-DO rev. A is available across ALL of Verizon’s network–not just in “select markets?”

So you have the iPhone–big deal. What good is a smartphone if it keeps dropping from 3G to EDGE to No Data right in the middle of Downtown Chicago and New York, as a number of iPhone users are reporting?

At least you’re answering back Verizon issue-for-issue. But I still can’t imagine what good it is having the fastest 3G network when I can’t make or receive a voice call while standing in my living room, I drop a call halfway through, or when every piece of electronics in a ten-foot radius goes nuts from interference when my phone actually does decide to ring a call through.

Pretty weak, guys. Pretty weak.

Again, instead of hiring camera crews, washed-up actors, and renting abandoned warehouse space to film nanny-nanny-boo-boo commercials, perhaps that money would be better-spent upgrading your ancient network.