A good article on nation wide coverage; suggesting it ain't always what you think.

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dr.news@better.price.biz.nospam - 07 Jun 2005 04:22 GMT

And this article does imply that they think that sprint and verizon lead the
pack. But of course it "depends. Also below is an expanded carrier chart,
almost as good as mountain wireless: dr.

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3504_7-6232656-1.html?tag=nl.e501
Answering the question "When is nationwide coverage, not nationwide?

And this was kool as well, the expanded carrier chart, comparing all
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-7609_7-5537615-11.html?tag=txt

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Jud Hardcastle - 07 Jun 2005 17:01 GMT

> And this article does imply that they think that sprint and verizon lead the
> pack. But of course it "depends. Also below is an expanded carrier chart,
> almost as good as mountain wireless: dr.

Only because both Sprint and Verizon's national coverage includes analog
roaming. Pull that and both their coverage drops drastically especially
Sprint's. Looking at the maps for digital only coverage I'd say
Cingular is quite a bit ahead although their national map is a bit
premature since it clearly includes some roamer partners to be GSM that
haven't converted yet. My Cingular GAIT plan with both GSM and TDMA
blows them all out of the water for digital coverage, plus it also has
analog roaming, however technically the article is correct since
Cingular no longer officially offers a plan with roaming off GSM (got to
be the stupidest decision ever made by a wireless company)--someone off
the street would have no way of knowing the GAIT option can be added to
the current plans for use with used GAIT phones.

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clifto - 09 Jun 2005 17:14 GMT

> Only because both Sprint and Verizon's national coverage includes analog
> roaming.

Somewhere I got the impression that Sprint doesn't have analog *anything*,
doesn't even have analog capability in most of their phones. Is that wrong?

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Isaiah Beard - 09 Jun 2005 19:50 GMT

>>And this article does imply that they think that sprint and verizon lead the
>>pack. But of course it "depends. Also below is an expanded carrier chart,
>>almost as good as mountain wireless: dr.
>
> Only because both Sprint and Verizon's national coverage includes analog
> roaming.

That characterization was never made on the article, and Sprint and
Verizon clearly define the differences between on-network and roaming
(in fact, the rumbling is that Verizon pretty much prevents its phones
from roaming at all, via the new America's Choice 2 PRLs).

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Larry W4CSC - 10 Jun 2005 00:28 GMT

> (in fact, the rumbling is that Verizon pretty much prevents its phones
> from roaming at all, via the new America's Choice 2 PRLs).

It's been that way a long time, now. In any area VZW is supposed to have
service, it will not roam to SPCS or Alltel.

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