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They look like me trying to use data services on Verizon from my house.

reply to icp1
Well... I don't know where u live but her in east TN it is actually very common for that to be the case. I make a 2 hour drive with over 30+ minutes of that trip with my iphone being useless because of no network coverage. Verizon is without coverage for about 3 minutes.... I believe with the horrible coverage they provide stating this fact is perfectly valid. Also, AT&T has no valid argument the map plainly states 3g coverage and it is not Verizon's fault that most Americans are incompetent and can't tell this.

Comparing a Verizon blackberry to an iPhone is pretty substantial in a lot of Massachusetts. Near the city / suburbs both work fine, but head west just a little bit and the iPhone starts to drop calls and become flaky. My dad switched to an iPhone for work, and just had me re-add him to my family share plan for $9.99 a month because he misses verizon for his 50 mile each way commute. With an iPhone he's dropping more calls than ever.

reply to dot854jc
I dont know where you are driving in east Tn, but I live in Chattanooga, and drive to knoxville (75N) , sevierville (40), , murfreesboro (24), and down to atlanta (75S) almost weekly and I never had an area with no coverage. In a couple little areas (out in the sticks) it will drop to edge service but maybe only a few miles. But the phone service is perfect and Edge is ok for those few areas where 3g is not fully covered.

Oh, and never forget.. at least with at&t service you can talk on the phone while using browser, mms, maps..etc.

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reply to JoeIac
Not sure where in Massachusetts you're driving. AT&T does have a few dead spots around here in Western MA, but they are dead for Verizon too. Just a few random spots in mountain towns off the main drag. However, I traveled from Pittsfield to Boston streaming radio in my car from my AT&T phone. I had 1 connection drop that only seemed to be a server error. I reconnected easily. So, I can say full data coverage with no gaps over I-90 from here to Boston. Another factor is the 3G AT&T uses(UMTS) required all new hardware, as will LTE for Verizon. The comparison seems factual, but it still might not be fair due to this little fact. We'll see how Vz does in 2011 when they are supposed to get LTE rolling out. No, the trip wasn't all 3G, but the radio service I use works extremely well on EDGE and even can sometimes adapt to GPRS(which I never see anymore, anyways).

mostly 495 between the mass pike and 93, right in the middle both carriers used to drop, but vz put up a tower, now vz drops once in a great while, but at&t drops a few times a trip (~40 miles between the two highways) during calls.

Edit: so west of boston, but not western (barely even central) mass really

Edit again: looking at google maps, you cant even call that central MA, so we'll go with eastern ma, but a little bit west of boston

Hmmm, my drive from CT to West Groton was great on AT&T.

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