Hasta La Gadget!

Verizon and its army of magical Christmas elves aren’t taking the latest lawsuit from AT&T lying down. The carrier issued a memorandum of law responding to AT&T’s temporary restraining order attempting to block its coverage map-based ads.

The statement reads, in part, “AT&T did not file this lawsuit because Verizon’s ‘There’s A Map For That’ advertisements are untrue; AT&T sued because Verizon’s ads are true and the truth hurts.”

Verizon insists that its claims are entirely true, depicting a 3G network that cover five times the area of its competitor. “Despite the far smaller size of its 3G network,” Verizon wrote. “AT&T has spent tens of millions of dollars making its 3G network, which it dubs the ‘Nation’s Fastest 3G Network,’ the centerpiece of its national advertising since at least the summer of 2008. AT&T now is attempting to silence Verizon’s ads that include maps graphically depicting the geographic reach of AT&T’s 3G network as compared to Verizon’s own 3G network because AT&T does not like the truthful picture painted by that comparison.”