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| | | | Re: Great, said by Clever_Proxy:Coverage is pretty damn good here. AT&T on the other hand... You live near the interstate right?
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kudos:1 | Re: Great, Are you saying that ATT's coverage isn't even good near the interstates? That does seem to be the case. My best friend's iphone drops calls on his commute home pretty frequently. It must be the interference from the interstate. | |
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| | | | | | said by tiger72:Are you saying that ATT's coverage isn't even good near the interstates? That does seem to be the case. My best friend's iphone drops calls on his commute home pretty frequently. It must be the interference from the interstate. The iPhone is the reason for the dropped call's. It's the worst phone for making/receiving calls. Depend's on the market where your at. All my dropped call's went away when I switched phones
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| | | | | said by iLive4Fusion:said by Clever_Proxy:Coverage is pretty damn good here. AT&T on the other hand... You live near the interstate right? No, but I live in the 3rd largest city in the US. I see iPhone users complaining everyday that they are dropping calls and they can't get reception in buildings downtown. I have T-Mobile and I have coverage everywhere. I can even make phone calls on the subways. Not so much for iPhone users.
While it's not perfect, T-Mobiles quality and footprint in the city of Chicago far surpasses AT&T's. That's been my experience at least. | |
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| | | | | | Re: Great, said by Clever_Proxy:said by iLive4Fusion:said by Clever_Proxy:Coverage is pretty damn good here. AT&T on the other hand... You live near the interstate right? No, but I live in the 3rd largest city in the US. I see iPhone users complaining everyday that they are dropping calls and they can't get reception in buildings downtown. I have T-Mobile and I have coverage everywhere. I can even make phone calls on the subways. Not so much for iPhone users. While it's not perfect, T-Mobiles quality and footprint in the city of Chicago far surpasses AT&T's. That's been my experience at least. Compare a different phone, the iPhone SUCKS for making calls!
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kudos:1 | Re: Great, both Sprint and T-Mobile offer 3g in Chico, CA. | |
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| Re: Great, said by tiger72:both Sprint and T-Mobile offer 3g in Chico, CA. Thank you for looking that up, but they don't cover my exact address. I'm 7 miles outside of town, in foothills. I called TM last week and verified they don't cover my address. They offered to check into having a tower at my home, I'd happily have one added. We'll see if they call me back. I can't see my neighbors loving this idea and two are within 500 feet. I seem to remember some law about that.
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kudos:8 | Re: Great, Enjoy their rent checks they send you if you do get a tower.
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kudos:2 | Hopefully they won't put up too big of a tower so the declination of the antennas won't miss you by being too close, though I don't think that's as big of an issue on lower frequencies as with WiFi-esque gear... | |
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| Phones and Coverage 1. T-Mo needs to launch and promote a phone that can hit full HSPA+ speeds. I hear that the Xperia X10 can do this, but I'm not 100% sure, because people have been showing me MobileSpeedTest results and those aren't worth crap.
2. The carrier needs to enhance coverage in areas that have their service but are stuck on GPRS. If they hit the TX hill country with 3G+ they'd become, by a long shot, the fastest wireless carrier in the area. They *would* have to use some wireless backhauls and such, but bandwidth is cheap if you know where to look.
Looking forward to testing out their 3G+ when it comes to Denver. At that point I *might* be able to justify the cost of buying a Rocket outright and paying for webConnect service on top of that. The mobile industry is going too quickly for me to justify buying into a two-year contract with anyone right now. | |
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T-Mobile currently sells more phones that are capable of 7.2 Mbps as it is than any other US carrier.
All Android phones they sell can max at 7.2 Mbps as does their HD2 and the Nokia e73 can peak at 10.2 Mbps.
T-Mobile is coming a long way from where they used to be. I hope they succeed.
Not all of us live in swamps or rural mountain top communities so these upgrades should benefit the majority of us. | |
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| Re: Phones and Coverage I live in neither and IMo doesn't have more than GPRS in my area. As for the company not needing faster phones, I won't disagree about the number of 7.2 handsets that they have available. However they need something that can max out faster than the .Evo in order to effectively compete with it. On the high end, price isn't everything | |
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| Re: Phones and Coverage According to some recent speed tests between Sprints 4G (Evo phone and their USB stick), their "4G" speeds were about the same or slower than T-Mobiles HSPA+.
So any phone that can take full advantage of 7.2HSPA is already on par with the EVO. Marketing aside, the numbers show 4G isn't all that super-de-dupper yet. | |
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kudos:2 | Re: Phones and Coverage I agree that 4G has been crap on the Evo in areas where the network isn't built out. However in good areas 4G can hit 10 Mbps, and as time goes on there will be more and more of those areas, all without having to upgrade phones... | |
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kudos:8 | Great News! Again, no word from AT&T's "planned" HSPA+ upgrades while other carriers are passing them up left and right in terms of speed, capacity, and coverage.
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Golden, CO
kudos:2 | Re: Great News! AT&T has said that they'll be hitting 14.4 Mbps with HSPA+ later this year, with service covering 190+ million people if I remember correctly. I want to say the story was on RCRWirelessNews. | |
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kudos:8 | Re: Great News! said by iansltx:AT&T has said that they'll be hitting 14.4 Mbps with HSPA+ later this year, with service covering 190+ million people if I remember correctly. I want to say the story was on RCRWirelessNews. Saying something is alot different then actually showing any results.
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Golden, CO
kudos:2 | Re: Great News! This is true, but at least they're giving firm time frames now. | |
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| | | | Re: Great News! AT&T will just release another PR stating that some independent agency (that they paid) is proof that they have the fastest 3G network. If that doesn't work, they'll blast the airwaves and TV networks with as many ads as they can before they get sued for lying. | |
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| said by hottboiinnc:and yet ATT is the fastest 3G provider in the Country. Which county?
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| | | Exactly! This still won't stop the AT&T or Verizon trolls from claiming T-Mobile has no service off the interstates in Alabama etc. but all that means is more bandwidth for you and me. | |
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