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<blockquote data-quote="NightShade" data-source="post: 3057791" data-attributes="member: 29706"><p>I guess I am an oddball. I rarely use my phone and have been in the literal middle of NOWHERE, in fact along Highway 51 you will be lucky to have service with any carrier in a lot of places. My T-Mobile phone was just fine. Especially if you are smart enough to preload the maps you need. Did I mention that GSM phones will work in other countries with a sim card swap? Yes Verizon phones have sim cards now, they are still frequency locked and all but the google phones won't work with other carriers.</p><p></p><p>Had Verizon at one point and IMHO the cost is not worth it. Was a bunch of places where they had crud service and they could have cared less. AT&T was ok but had crappy coverage in some area's as well and cost more than I am paying now. The funny thing I have seen is that Verizon and AT&T have had their low frequency network built out for a while so it hasn't been a priority for them to do much of anything else so they are starting to stagnate.</p><p></p><p>The last spectrum auction saw one big purchaser and within a few months they had a tower up and running after the purchase. The same company has exactly one phone that supports it as they did the work so fast and that phone is not an iphone even though it came out after the other one. Band 71 is now the lowest frequency available in cell phone usage which means it will penetrate the farthest into buildings and will travel the farthest distance from a tower over open ground. By 2020 they will have a larger cell footprint than Verizon with their purchase. So unless you are on sprint it really doesn't matter much anymore.</p><p></p><p>Each carrier will have deadspots in coverage somewhere, I think a real win is having service with a carrier that is cheaper and who will soon have less deadspots than the other three.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NightShade, post: 3057791, member: 29706"] I guess I am an oddball. I rarely use my phone and have been in the literal middle of NOWHERE, in fact along Highway 51 you will be lucky to have service with any carrier in a lot of places. My T-Mobile phone was just fine. Especially if you are smart enough to preload the maps you need. Did I mention that GSM phones will work in other countries with a sim card swap? Yes Verizon phones have sim cards now, they are still frequency locked and all but the google phones won't work with other carriers. Had Verizon at one point and IMHO the cost is not worth it. Was a bunch of places where they had crud service and they could have cared less. AT&T was ok but had crappy coverage in some area's as well and cost more than I am paying now. The funny thing I have seen is that Verizon and AT&T have had their low frequency network built out for a while so it hasn't been a priority for them to do much of anything else so they are starting to stagnate. The last spectrum auction saw one big purchaser and within a few months they had a tower up and running after the purchase. The same company has exactly one phone that supports it as they did the work so fast and that phone is not an iphone even though it came out after the other one. Band 71 is now the lowest frequency available in cell phone usage which means it will penetrate the farthest into buildings and will travel the farthest distance from a tower over open ground. By 2020 they will have a larger cell footprint than Verizon with their purchase. So unless you are on sprint it really doesn't matter much anymore. Each carrier will have deadspots in coverage somewhere, I think a real win is having service with a carrier that is cheaper and who will soon have less deadspots than the other three. [/QUOTE]
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