Why is Nextel the only national carrier to not have a national coverage map on their webpage?

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P Howard - 02 Sep 2003 21:19 GMT

I was looking through all the carriers websites today and noticed that
Nextel was the only one to not show a national map of coverage.

Their map has a bunch of city names, but other than going in to check
each area specifically, I could find no national map showing where they
cover and where they don't cover. I was hoping to compare it to the
other carrier's maps that I found online. Locally around here,
Balt/Wash DC, my current carrier, Verizon Wireless, certainly seems to
have far superior coverage to most carriers, particularly Nextel... but
I wanted to see what the rest of the country looked like.

Some of you may respond, "because Nextel has such awful coverage"... so
on and so on... "and some may say, its so damn good, who needs a map..."

But, why isn't there one? If anyone has a national map of their
coverage, could you please post it in a response to this message?

Thanks!

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Al Bundy - 03 Sep 2003 19:13 GMT

Hi there Mr. Howard I see what you mean about the coverage maps, Even sneaky
Sprint puts it all out the for all to see but not Nexhell all they want is
all the money for their phones and a two year agreement for any changes to
your service,
Make mine Verizon.
Al.

> I was looking through all the carriers websites today and noticed that
> Nextel was the only one to not show a national map of coverage.
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> Thanks!

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P Howard - 03 Sep 2003 21:56 GMT

Any other takes on this?

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> Hi there Mr. Howard I see what you mean about the coverage maps, Even sneaky
> Sprint puts it all out the for all to see but not Nexhell all they want is
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Scott Stephenson - 04 Sep 2003 02:30 GMT

There is a coverage map on the nextel site:

http://nextel.com/services/coverage/index.shtml

It doesn't have a lot of pretty colors on it, and you have to actually
dig into it, but it provides pretty detailed maps of their network coverage.

> I was looking through all the carriers websites today and noticed that
> Nextel was the only one to not show a national map of coverage.
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> Thanks!

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SCSIGuy - 04 Sep 2003 08:02 GMT

> There is a coverage map on the nextel site:
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> > Thanks!

Funny how everyone seems to have missed the original poster's
question. Yeah, Nextel's site doesn't appear to have a totally
national coverage map anywhere, but honestly what's the point? Most
providers national maps aren't accurate...and if you think about, even
their local maps aren't. Verizon's local Michigan coverage map shows
all the counties it covers, but it shows coverage by county lines per
the FCC divide-up, it doesn't show real coverage. For example,
Columbiaville, MI is a black hole for cellular service for every
provider but Nextel, yet according to Verizon's supposed map they have
flawless coverage.

So even though it's a little more work to see the individual areas
with Nextel's map, just bear in mind that theirs is at least honest,
based on the placement of cell sites as opposed to most providers'
"FCC Coverage territory maps" Guess it just depends on your angle,
heh.

Skuzz

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