AT&T (NYSE: T) is no longer battling Verizon Wireless in court over whether Verizon Wireless should have to take its ads off the air that compare its 3G network to AT&T’s.
Two cases have been dismissed. One in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, where AT&T was suing Verizon Wireless, and one in U.S. District Court in New York, where AT&T was suing Verizon, and Verizon had filed a counter-claim. In both cases, voluntary dismissals were filed that says the case has been dismissed without prejudice. AT&T emailed the documents to reporters who requested them. Verizon Wireless declined to comment.
The voluntary dismissals are somewhat of an anti-climatic ending to the spat, which began in October when Verizon Wireless started running an ad campaign that compared its 3G coverage map to AT&T’s map, and was claiming to have five times more coverage than AT&T.
Verizon was always confident that it would prevail because AT&T was never contesting the accuracy of Verizon’s statements — its argument was merely that the ads are misleading, and could damage the company during the critical holiday period. Verizon’s response it sent to the court stung: “AT&T did not file this lawsuit because Verizon

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