 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to jmn1207
Re: ATT is way ahead said by jmn1207:said by BF69:HAHA. They don't even have much of a 3G network. In my state between Verizon, Sprint an at&t, at&t has the smallest coverage. About 98-99% of the people in my state can get Verizons 3G coverage. I'll see Verizon's 4G here YEARS before at&t bothers to offer it. Do you also blame the sun for not shining on your city as much as it does in San Diego? Sprint has a great 3G network, but it's not the best everywhere. The same can be said for all of the major wireless carriers. Well as a potential customer yeah it kind of matters if a company has coverage in my area or not. Besides it a FACT that almost EVERYWHERE Verizon has better coverge. Try looking at a coverage map.
If you can see the map the yellow is Verizon 3G the orange is where there is Verizon and at&t 3G the red is at&t 3G only areas. I see far more yellow than red. |
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 jmn1207Premium
join:2000-07-19
Ashburn, VA | Yes, and you were making disparaging comments regarding Sprint's coverage area, and I told you that Sprint has excellent 3G coverage. Sprint has the most CDMA roaming agreements, and an agreement with Verizon is included. |
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Alfred, ME
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| said by jmn1207:Sprint has the most CDMA roaming agreements, and an agreement with Verizon is included. Not for 3G data though. I assume because the coverage of both is to lop-sided, Verizon would make out in that deal far more than Sprint customers would.
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Interestingly enough, I have a sprint PDA 3G phone and a verizon 3G phone, and in the two towns in Tennessee I spend most of my time in (pop less than 30k), SPRINT was the first carrier to offer EVDO by about 3 months in both cities, beating out verizon. AT&T , heh, they just recently got EDGE here. |
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 DragasoniWe're All Mad HerePremium
join:2001-12-14
Palm Bay, FL
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Thank you, I can't stand GSM providers! They always try to imply they have the biggest and the best, but the truth is CDMA trumps GSM, especially in voice quality. I want to shoot myself when people call me that have AT&T or T-Mobile phones, they sound like total crap. GSM is tinny, picks up a ton of background noise, drops constantly, it's generally sub par in my opinion.
And don't try to tell me I don't know what I'm talking about; I had a T-Mobile company phone along side my Alltel phone for 3 years. Alltel won hands down with signal, voice quality, and internet speeds. My realtor had a iPhone; I couldn't even understand him half the time, and his phone dropped every 5 minutes. Needless to say, I usually just communicated with him via SMS, because at least that worked.
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 tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
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| Do you know what effects codecs, compression, half-rate/full-rate, etc.. can have? How about what companies do when they have very limited spectrum in a given area? Or when they have tower congestion? The building-penetration abilities of the various frequency bands? It doesn't look like it.
The GSM/CDMA debate is pointless unless you take into account the countless differences that also contribute to call quality (or lack thereof).
You know, like how VZW is mostly 850mhz, while Sprint and TMO are 1900mhz, and ATT is a mix of both. Or how ATT uses a half-rate voice codec while TMO uses a full-rate voice codec. Or that TMO and Sprint typically have more towers (thanks to their 1900mhz usage) in urban areas than ATT and VZW do.
Frequency bands and codecs have far more to do with signal quality, nationwide coverage, and call quality than GSM/CDMA does. You'll see this when LTE rolls out. Everyone will use LTE, but you'll still notice substantial network differences due to codecs, frequency bands, and tower buildout.
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