• All Things D, Wednesday, December 2, 2009 2:22 PM

AT&T has apparently realized that continuing to complain about -- and sue -- Verizon for depicting its cell phone coverage as spotty is doing more harm than good. This morning, AT&T and Verizon agreed to dismiss a lawsuit over Verizon's "There's a Map for That" and "Island of Misfit Toys" commercials, which AT&T said mislead consumers into thinking that the carrier doesn't offer wireless service in large portions of the country.

The dismissal comes two weeks after a court ruled that Verizon commercials might be "sneaky," but they were not actually deceptive. According to DigitalDaily, the "irreparable harm" that AT&T claimed to have suffered as a result of the ads might not have been quite so irreparable. Verizon, for its part, says that it's already begun running another commercial that features the maps at issue in the suit.

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