SpartanSeabee
Member
I’m just wondering what cell phone carriers everyone is using? Who seems to have the best signal out on the road? I have US Cellular now and already plan on switching just don’t know where to yet. Any suggestions
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r3gulator3
IMA KEEP IT REDNECK
That is fact, hands down Verizon is the best.
Electric Chicken
Well-Known Member
It goes something like Verizon > AT&T > Sprint > T-Mobile.
And the prices fall in the same order. Prepaids just piggy back off those.
I use Straight Talk with an AT&T SIM card. I'm too cheap for the real thing.
And the prices fall in the same order. Prepaids just piggy back off those.
I use Straight Talk with an AT&T SIM card. I'm too cheap for the real thing.
r3gulator3
IMA KEEP IT REDNECK
A friend of mine has Sprint and drops calls all the time. Another friend of mine has Chat Mobility which rides on Verizon towers. He drops calls about the same as I do. You'll always find some place you phone won't work. Inside a metal building with no windows, in the Texas hill country, and the entire state of Montana. 
ironpony
Professional Pot-Stirrer
Cell service is basically a digital protocol overlaid on an analog radio channel that is a little better than direct line-of-sight. Get beyond the maximum signal range of all the towers... you drop a call. Get in the RF shadow of a terrain feature - you drop a call.
Verizon had a head start on everyone. They were a back east baby bell, part of the detritus of the antitrust case that broke up the "phone company," the AT&T Bell System. Verizon bought Airstream, a nationwide analog cell company, adopted the CDMA digital cell technology early on, and pumped huge wads of cash into it.
Sprint started in SoCal, a spin off from the Southern Pacific RR using their proprietary cell communications system, and became an "along the interstate" cell outfit. They expanded over the years to compete nationwide with Verizon.
AT&T was an original entrant in cell technology, and chose to retain that from the antitrust case. The technology was archaic enough that it didn't cross well into CDMA digital technology, so they sold off their system (Sprint acquired a lot of the cell towers) and got out of cell phones. A couple of years later, they bought Cingular, an east of the Mississippi digital cell company, and renamed it AT&T Cellular. They've been playing catch-up ever since.
Verizon had a head start on everyone. They were a back east baby bell, part of the detritus of the antitrust case that broke up the "phone company," the AT&T Bell System. Verizon bought Airstream, a nationwide analog cell company, adopted the CDMA digital cell technology early on, and pumped huge wads of cash into it.
Sprint started in SoCal, a spin off from the Southern Pacific RR using their proprietary cell communications system, and became an "along the interstate" cell outfit. They expanded over the years to compete nationwide with Verizon.
AT&T was an original entrant in cell technology, and chose to retain that from the antitrust case. The technology was archaic enough that it didn't cross well into CDMA digital technology, so they sold off their system (Sprint acquired a lot of the cell towers) and got out of cell phones. A couple of years later, they bought Cingular, an east of the Mississippi digital cell company, and renamed it AT&T Cellular. They've been playing catch-up ever since.
Ontario Outlaw
Hozer Witta Hood
Why IS Montana a black hole for cell service?
ironpony
Professional Pot-Stirrer
There are more jackrabbits per acre than people. Jackrabbits don't use cell phones. Mostly.
They basically cover the I15 and I94 corridors.
Most of the intermountain west is like that.
Blood
Driveler Emeritus
Tazz
Infidel
Yeah but the rest of us travel north of I 40
I live and do virtually all of my traveling above I40
I have an entire fleet of phones at my house with all my kids, LOL. Puts my phone bill at $300 month.
In all fairness, I think Verizon and AT&T are pretty much equal. They both lack coverage in certain areas. Not too long ago, I had a company phone when pulling tankers. In some locations, the Verizon phone was worthless, in some location, my AT&T phone was worthless.
My next gadget for the truck will likely be a WeBoost.
Rigjockey
In Gord we trust!
This is my phone. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
My phone is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.
Without me, my phone is useless. Without my phone, I am useless.
Tazz
Infidel
You sound like my daughtersThis is my phone. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
My phone is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.
Without me, my phone is useless. Without my phone, I am useless.
Ontario Outlaw
Hozer Witta Hood
Tazz
Infidel
Uhm no.Looks remarkably similar too.....
I have two beautiful daughters.
RJ just likes dresses
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