3 edits | Sprint/Alltel roaming It was briefly mentioned that Sprint has EVDO roaming agreements with Alltel, but this is a bigger deal for those who travel on the road. It's especially important for RVrs and truck drivers. Alltel has massive area coverage of EVDO in some states. Verizon does not have EVDO roaming agreements yet, just Sprint/Alltel.
Verizon's only advantage may be better customer support or where they may have EVDO that Sprint does not. Sprint seems to win in every other category otherwise. Both claim to cover over 210 million population with EVDO and Sprint claims they'll hit 240m by end of this year.
BTW, I dumped my 5Mb cable modem for Sprint EVDO. Don't miss it at all unless trying to stream very high quality video.
Many have been dumping landline phones for the mobility of a cellphone even though landline is higher quality and usually cheaper. When WiMAX comes around, I suspect many more will dump landline broadband for mobile WiMAX, except for those who really need over 5Mbps. |
