T-Mobile Trashes Verizon On Twitter [T-Mobile Reminds Us Of Verizon's 4G LTE Outage This Week, References Verizon TV Ads In Burn]

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The past two weeks, the tech world has been focused on the massive PlayStation Network outage on the PlayStation 3. Probably fortunately for Verizon, whose 4G LTE network quietly went down for a few days this past week, leaving HTC Thunderbolt owners (and those who own the 4G modems and data cards) stuck on 1XRTT speeds. But, T-Mobile noticed, and they didn’t miss an opportunity to talk trash about Verizon on Twitter.

Writing on Twitter, Verizon informed their customers that the 4G network was up, writing:

4G LTE up and running. Thank you for your patience.

T-Mobile’s Dan Anderson, their social media manager, not missing a beat, replied to that Tweet:

In the time your network was out, we downloaded 22 million photos, 17 million eBooks and 1 million apps on our 4G network.

It’s just another blow in what some of us tech bloggers have been calling the “4G Wars” between the four major US carriers. Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile all have taken blows at each other’s 4G in the past six months (AT&T has, quite frankly, a goofy 4G strategy and they seem to be staying out of the ad war, for now). Every tech fan has their favorite, of course, but you have to admit that it’s fun to watch them go at it.

While T-Mobile’s HSPA+ network probably has the worst claim to being 4G when compared to Verizon and Sprint, it is the relatively most stable, considering that T-Mobile was able to upgrade to 4G by giving their towers a firmware update.

T-Mobile’s Tweet is also a reference to a TV ad campaign that Verizon is running here in the United States. They’re trying to demonstrate how many apps/eBooks/games you could download before something happens – like getting on a plane and then downloading your stuff before the flight attendant asks you to turn it off, etc. It’s probably because it references the Verizon commercials that the T-Mobile burn is so sweet (in my opinion).

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