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| data on I-80 in NV/UT/WY/NE; I-70 in CO, KS etc Looking for a prepaid SIM with overage-free data coverage on the interstates.
T-Mobile has EDGE coverage on I-80 in most of Nevada and Utah. GSM coverage in some parts of I-70 in KS and OK (yeap, GSM data, apparently, there's still such a thing! Labelled as "3G/4G smartphone" on »prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-coverage ! And you thought labelling HSPA+ as 4G was bad enough!). No coverage in WY at all (outside of Cheyenne), roaming on United Telephone's EDGE network is only for postpaid plans, and in very limited quantities (my 200MB unlim plan only had 10MB of roaming). Roaming between east of Denver, CO and west of Salina, KS on VIAERO, also, starting in KS, somewhat on AT&T (AT&T had many drops back to VIAERO).
AT&T has no coverage in Nevada on I-80, I recall most of WY and NE had no coverage, either. Some EDGE coverage in KS on I-70, with a lot of dead spots.
How do people get GSM/EDGE/UMTS coverage on the interstates?
The 30$ 5GB@4G plan from T-Mobile/Walmart has basically no data coverage outside of California and Nevada interstates, and northern Utah, when going east until the mid-west. What gives?
BTW, AT&T is even worse: at least you still supposedly get unlimited voice roaming with T-Mobile prepaid; not so with AT&T -- AT&T prepaid customers get no roaming whatsoever. I-80 in NV, WY, NE are mostly completely blank with AT&T prepaid, not even voice. At least T-Mobile prepaid always gets voice.
So...
Do all those virtual "GSM" operators have any unlimited data roaming with United Telephone in Wyoming (do they even have a web-site?), and VIAERO in Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas (»www.viaero.com/), and other similar companies you've never heard of on other interstates? | |
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| You have to switch over to Verizon to get coverage. And that isn't everywhere along those interstates in those states. I've had beautiful coverage in the mountains in campgrounds and roaming where you can hardly make a call in rest stops. Traveled these routes many times. I don't know LTE on Verizon over these routes since I just got my S3 this winter.
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1 edit | Sorry, but that's BS. I'm not switching from 30$/mo to 100+$/mo to get the very same voice-only roaming with Verizon, and to have to pay overages for data, regardless of location; and to subject oneself to the locked up and incompatible phones.
T-Mobile prepaid has excellent voice coverage in all those states mentioned. There was virtually no spot without GSM reception, and I consistently had full bars when roaming on Union Telephone's EDGE network in Wyoming on I-80 (don't know how they did it, but AT&T and VIAERO in KS were dropping coverage all the time).
(On my prior trip about two years back, with prepaid AT&T phone, there was no voice coverage pretty much anywhere in Nevada, Wyoming and Nebraska, since AT&T prepaid has no roaming, not even voice roaming, because AT&T loves their customers.)
I've looked at »www.straighttalksim.com/coverage.php, and they claim all interstate coverage, but that map doesn't say what kind of coverage it is; would be no point in switching if it's a voice-only roaming. Anyone with Straight Talk to chime in whether rural I-80 in Wyoming has data roaming with Straight Talk, where there is only Union Telephone (»www.unionwireless.com/), and neither T-Mobile nor AT&T? | |
beckPremium,MVM
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Well, you asked and I replied. Don't yell at me because you didn't like it. You can stay with any carrier you want. And you can drive any roads you want. You have coverage or you don't. | |
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