[olug] [OT] Cell phone carrier questions...

[jman at miwire.com]

   I have the Nexus One on ATT. Haven't had much difficulty lately (last year)
   with  dropped  calls,  tethering  and hotspot w/phone has yet to incur
   additional charges. Their 3G seems to out-perform all others round the Big
   O.

   webtrekker at cox.net wrote ..

+1 for Sprint, I have a non-rooted EVO(luv it!!)  and my wife has the Samsung M
oment (suks), but the service has always been good to us.  I'm using PDAnet on 
both phones, not the fastest but always works.

Patrick

---- Dan Anderson  wrote: 
> Yeah, we had the same thing (I'm kind of North West - on the top of a
> hill).  My wife suddenly could use her phone everywhere except work and home
> (constantly dropping calls - failing to ring at all, etc).
> 
> Verizon blamed the phone, swapped it out a few times, gave her a different
> brand phone, but then just quit trying.  If their map shows coverage - they
> wouldn't do _anything_.
> 
> Ultimately, we bought her out of the Verizon contract.  Those "Can you hear
> me now?" commercials were never funny.  :)
> 
> Check with your neighbors and co-workers.  Maybe they know how Verizon
> coverage is in your specific area - in terms of drops, data connectivity,
> missed calls, etc - "bars" aren't always the whole story.
> 
> I've always had Sprint and have had no issues (maybe a handful of dropped
> calls in like 13 years - and those were probably roaming calls anyway.)
> 
> I just upgraded a couple months back to the Samsung Epic 4G (Galaxy S).
> Very cool.  Android 2.2.  Full qwerty keyboard (awesome for terminal/ssh
> work :) ) Add a Seidio high capacity battery and it's a really great phone
> (mp3 player, video camera, game machine, still camera, GPS, e-book reader,
> etc.).  The only annoying part is paying the $10 4g fee when 4g isn't here
> yet.
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Craig Wolf  wrote:
> 
> > My wife and i have Droid phones on Verizon and while I love the phones, the
> > service in our area sucks (West O').  When they switched to the Alltel
> > towers, I basically lost service in my home and around it.  I am not sure
> > anyone else is any better in my neck of the woods but that is my opinion...
> >
> > Craig Wolf
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