AT&T has updated its satellite calling advertisement after T-Mobile challenged its rival’s use of the verb “is.” When the “Epic Bad Golf Day” video starring Ben Stiller was initially released in April, the ad closed with “the future of help is an AT&T satellite call away.” This has now been changed to “will be a satellite call away.”
AT&T changes its ‘Bad Golf Day’ ad after T-Mobile complained
The rivals are battling over ad copy before launching competing satellite calling services.
The rivals are battling over ad copy before launching competing satellite calling services.
is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.
T-Mobile took its complaint to the Better Business Bureau’s national advertising division, which said the wording in AT&T’s original statement implied that the carrier’s Supplemental Coverage from Space service was already available to customers. While AT&T cut a deal in May with AST SpaceMobile to launch the service, it’s currently unavailable, and it could be several months before the offering is rolled out. T-Mobile is launching its own Starlink-based satellite calling service sometime this fall.
A revised version of the ad is now available to watch alongside the original on AT&T’s YouTube channel.
Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.
Most Popular
Most Popular
- Apple’s weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness
- Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans
- Tim Cook says RAM expenses are ‘unsustainable’ and Apple is going to raise prices
- Apple’s smart home camera service is starting to impress me
- Can anyone look cool wearing Snap’s $2,000 glasses?
