http://www.dslreports.com/forum/The-merger-is-probably-a-scam-25719560 en Mon, 20 May 2013 00:06:23 EDT Mon, 20 May 2013 00:06:23 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/The-merger-is-probably-a-scam-25719560
T-Mobile has great customer support; AT&T does not. T-Mobile was average in larger rural - which was better than AT&T, but worse away from the cities. They are both pathetic in US Cellular areas; but US Cellular signal is mostly non-functioning in Verizon/Sprint areas.

I've been there, done it and have the shirt to prove it. I wore it from Chicago to NOLA and Chicago to SoCal several times using AT&T and T-Mobile. When I talk about rural I'm talking about places like Jay, OK, Palo Duro, TX, Bath, IL, Winslow, AZ, Elephant Butte, NM, Francesville, LA.. I'm talking about sitting outside of my best friend's house and could not use T-Mobile because she lives in an area serviced by US Cellular. Her US. Cellular phone doesn't work in my house 15 miles away.

Then I went to Sprint, bought a really good phone and discovered CDMA. The only place I do not get a signal now is int the mountains were there are no towers. I'm through most of it in less than five minutes. I can sit outside my friend's house and talk all day.

Now I am faced with smart phones, net books and tablets. I don't like the way Sprint is going is some of their future plans. I don't want a phone loaded with Google, Google Apps or anything else Google. And I'm not terribly happy with the quality of some of the other feature rich phones.

Spring 4G does work and work well where it is implemented so says a friend of mine who travels every week. He had cell service from AT&T when he lived Seattle. I sold him on Sprint and he watched a Cub game tonight in Atlanta on on his Droid phone.

My solution to whole thing was to buy a iPhone. I'm in the middle of nowhere, 50 miles from any city worth talking about. But it is in the middle of Verizon towers and most everyone I know are VZN users. I actually have a better voice call than with the Sprint phone, but I attribute that to the phone rather than VZN as I am 10 miles from the nearest tower. . .


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