BiggA Premium Member join:2005-11-23 Central CT |
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Re: keepExactly. Their coverage is just as bad as ever, and as areas not near the city lag farther and farther behind in technology upgrades, in some ways it's actually getting worse. |
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I go to the country side all the time and always get coverage. In this area they just roam on another carrier I guess. |
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BiggA
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2012-Dec-15 11:56 pm
Why woud you want to have a tiny amount of slow data when you could have your regular plan and fake 4G that's cranking along at 3-5mbps? |
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Oh, I don't have a smartphone.
I guess you guys are referring to Data coverage. I was just assuming voice. |
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djdanskaRudie32 Premium Member join:2001-04-21 San Diego, CA |
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Sure, 3-5Mb down. Got this while on the bus near mexico with t-mobile. |
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BiggA Premium Member join:2005-11-23 Central CT ·Frontier FiberOp.. Asus RT-AC68
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BiggA
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2012-Dec-17 8:18 pm
You totally missed the point. When you go outside the city, you go to EDGE, GPRS, or throttled roaming, while AT&T is cruising right along with Faux G, and soon Verizon will have LTE everywhere.
@Buddahbless, AT&T passed T-Mobile with the exact same fake 4G quite some time ago. Verizon is behind AT&T if you count "4G", not 4G LTE. |
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djdanskaRudie32 Premium Member join:2001-04-21 San Diego, CA |
djdanska
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2012-Dec-17 8:58 pm
No I didn't. I had full 4g in my T-Mobile going through rural MO, TX, OK, when my Verizon was lucky to even be on evdo, usually on 1xrtt. |
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BiggA
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2012-Dec-18 7:34 pm
If you look at the map, go a few miles outside a city, and T-Mobile is back on "2G" or roaming. Verizon is on LTE or EVDO. Some of the 1x roaming areas on Verizon, which are pretty much beyond where T-Mobile even has service, are being fixed with LTEiRA. |
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djdanska
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2012-Dec-18 10:43 pm
I know what's on the maps. It isn't reflective of new coverage. Tons of the coverage i had was listed as pure roaming. Some had the icons for new towers but still roaming. Real vs. map coverage isn't the same. |
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BiggA
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2012-Dec-19 9:10 pm
Yeah right. You're trying to tell me that T-Mobile has done some massive stealth build-out to cover the massive areas that they currently have 2G or no service with 4G? Yeah right. Maybe here or there, but definitely not anywhere close to where AT&T is. And even AT&T will fall back to EDGE occasionally, but at least they have something pretty much everywhere. |
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