Cell Coverage?

rodney eppes

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Anybody use Sprint? Just curious as there running some sweet sounding Deals, right now. I've been with AT&T for several years, & the next to worst coverage I get, is My house. Could be my 2G phone. I pretty sure Verizion, has the most coverage. I looked at a coverage map, showing all providers towers. Sprint looks like they only cover Large cities. Do they piggy back other towers? Map shows 1 tower in Mooresville, & 1 in Statesville. That's seems Bad. What you guys think?
 
Yep, Verizon is one the most expensive, but definitely the best coverage. I've never had sprint personally but companies Ive worked for have. It's been a few years but when I had a company phone it was useless unless you were near an interstate or city... Like stated above forget using it anywhere with hills....
 
i was looking into the same thing with sprint. however around here (the uwharries) they seem to have zero service, I guess thats why their pricing is so cheap .
 
Never had Sprint & never will...sister-in-law had it and it never seemed to have coverage.
 
A good friend of mine has Sprint, I have Verizon, and we compare service often. It's really not a comparison, Sprint sucks in most of JoCo and non city areas of WaCo. I will be a cheap ass on a whole lot of things, but when I need to call someone 9 times out of 10 I really need to talk to them, so Verizon keeps getting my money.

Duane
 
I'm in the mountains also, I have a personal phone with Verizon and a work phone with ATT. Verizon is the best around here hands down.
 
prepaid providers such as net10 and Straighttalk have leased access to Verizon's network, and can save you big bucks versus going through Verizon directly; the only downside is that durning peak volume, the prepaid users are prioritized below verizon directly.

I am seriously looking at going this route; i am currently on a grandfathered plan thats reasonable cheap and will be screwed once I upgrade to a newer 4G phone.

List of prepaid co's and their networks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_mobile_virtual_network_operators
 
I travel a good bit in my line of work and from the mountains to the desert I've always had service with Verizon. Of course there's always a deep dark hole somewhere that's gonna zap whatever service you have, but for the most part Verizon has been good to me.
 
Actually Verizon has a new "Secret" plan for off contract customers.

We just found out about it and called in and the guy knew exactly what I was talking about.

We now pay $125/month for 4 lines unlimited talk, text and share $10GB data.

I was paying about $240. There is a new $25/line per month credit if it is off contract so we pay $15/line/month for unlimited talk and text. And then the other $$65 for the data plan. (my total number is skewed a bit because work gets us a discount)
 
ecu88xj said:
prepaid providers such as net10 and Straighttalk have leased access to Verizon's network, and can save you big bucks versus going through Verizon directly; the only downside is that durning peak volume, the prepaid users are prioritized below verizon directly.

I am seriously looking at going this route; i am currently on a grandfathered plan thats reasonable cheap and will be screwed once I upgrade to a newer 4G phone.

List of prepaid co's and their networks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_mobile_virtual_network_operators
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I have actually bought a Moto X from Republic Wireless, several months back. Crazy me, I have yet to try it. They try to hold cost down, by using wifi first, if no wifi, it switches to cell towers.
 
Ron said:
Actually Verizon has a new "Secret" plan for off contract customers.

We just found out about it and called in and the guy knew exactly what I was talking about.

We now pay $125/month for 4 lines unlimited talk, text and share $10GB data.

I was paying about $240. There is a new $25/line per month credit if it is off contract so we pay $15/line/month for unlimited talk and text. And then the other $$65 for the data plan. (my total number is skewed a bit because work gets us a discount)
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Is that before taxes/fees/etc or after?
 
Thats the before number.
After was like $138.
 
Ron said:
Actually Verizon has a new "Secret" plan for off contract customers.

We just found out about it and called in and the guy knew exactly what I was talking about.

We now pay $125/month for 4 lines unlimited talk, text and share $10GB data.

I was paying about $240. There is a new $25/line per month credit if it is off contract so we pay $15/line/month for unlimited talk and text. And then the other $$65 for the data plan. (my total number is skewed a bit because work gets us a discount)
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We're on contract, so a non-issue, but when we got new phones, the CSR tried HARD to get us to "upgrade" to the new plan. Told me how much money we'd save by sharing data, etc. Bottom line, they compared our current plan with all taxes and fees included against the list price for the "new" plan with half as much data allowance.

I kept the old plan.
 
Right the "edge" plan is a total rip off as far s I can figure. But the $25/per line/per month discount for off contract was sweet.
 
I switched 3 lines to edge. Increased my data from 7gb to 15 gb shared and added a tablet last time I got new phones with Verizon and my bill went down a little. Even with paying monthly for the phones.
 
I just cancelled att and went to straight talk and so far I'm happy I've only had it for 2 weeks but service seems better than att. And 45 a month unlimited everything is nice was paying 220 for 2 phones thur att
 
I had Sprint from 2002-2014. Lived in TX and in NC. The service used to be fantastic years ago, but started slipping maybe 4-5 years ago and was terrible in the Raleigh area by the time I dumped them and went to Verizon last spring. I have an AT&T phone for work and have had that for about 9 years now in NC. Their coverage is really good but my Verizon phone always has better service.

If you are still on a 2G phone that is part of your issue, but I cannot remember the last time I saw a 2G Sprint phone. I have had 3G phones with them for probably 8 years now. All new towers and service upgrades are happening on 3G and 4G/LTE networks. I know AT&T is phasing out 2G this year, I just retired my 8 year old Blackberry earlier this week (yes, totally not kidding, had a Cingular logo on it!) and moved to an iPhone.
 
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