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Re: WHY ?! said by Homer J:Let's see there are more CDMA customers in the US than GSM. The CDMA providers provide a better service in more areas for a lower price, yeah lets all go with GSM. Which "providers"? Sprint? Yeah, you get what you pay for when it comes to that. Sprint may have the non-retention department customer service backing it, but the coverage map doesn't give any insight into how many holes "The Now Network" has, at least on the west coast. I'd never buy anything from Sprint again after dealing with a rude retention rep that hung up on me. Verizon is the most expensive provider in the United States, so I have no idea why "provider" is plural in your post. Not to mention the fact that Verizon turned down the phone to begin with, so Apple tried to go CDMA.
AT&T works fine for where I go. It doesn't matter where I am, I always know I'll have 5 bars backing my iPhone. I don't see why people continue to cite that CDMA providers provide better service, when you probably aren't even a customer with a GSM carrier. AT&T has improved network coverage tenfold in the cities I go to. I can drive down I-15 from Vegas to California, and always have 3G with 5 bars. I can drive all the way through the hill of Los Angeles up to Santa Clarita, and always have 5 bars. When I had Sprint, it was either roaming on Verizon, barely hanging on to 1X (which was most of the time), or it actually working. Sprint works great when it actually works, I'll say that much.
With that said, if the iPhone was with Verizon, I'd probably switch over, but if they had a major flood of iPhones like AT&T has, I'd be willing to bet everything wouldn't be as peachy as people on here seem to believe. AT&T is being forced to put up new towers in areas that already have coverage, or adding more expensive backhaul to towers, because the network is so saturated with a phone that uses a ton of data.
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