PLEASE HELP.....CELL CARRIER.....VERIZON VS ATT
 

My Company is considering moving away from Verizon and to ATT.
We travel all over the US and some International.
Who do you use, in what area, and how do you like it?

Verizon, works everywhere I go.
Know bunch of people with ATT who can't connect or is very poor when around me.

Cousin just went with the Consumer Cellular (or whatever it's called).
He can't receive or send calls while in his house?
Uses ATT system I believe, not Verizon for sure.
They were on Verizon.


:confused:

I've been on Verizon for 20ish years. The rest of my family was with ATT for a good while and recently moved to Verizon also. We had ATT land lines and internet here at the office and found both spotty at best and then contacting a human that could actually do something to help was engineered to be nearly impossible. Porting the lines when we moved to Spectrum was again, engineered to be a complete pain in the butt. Then ATT kept billing us for 6 months AFTER they turned the numbers loose. I hope they still have somebody waiting by the mailbox for that check.

verizon is by far the best in terms of coverage.

Funny how everything works, but a lot depends on where you live. I have had Sprint, T-mobile, Verizon, and now have use AT&T towers using Straight Talk. Sprint headquarters is here in KC, and it is the worst service I have ever had, next worst was T-Mobile(service spotty and inconsistent). Verizon and AT&T to me have been pretty good service providers, although I have gotten better range with AT&T. Again, this is for my service area and my experience, I now you will get opposing opinions from different service areas. I love my Straight Talk service I get through Wal-Mart, and pay $45.00 per month for each phone for unlimited minutes and data, and no contracts, you can keep your phone number, use your own phone. I have had it for 5 years now, and no thoughts of changing.

Had an a/c repairman to the house to repair a/c unit. He couldn't call out to tech support with his AT&T phone and had to borrow mine...Verizon !

Yes..it depends on where you live and where your providers have cell towers. Att works good where I live. Most neighbors have the same. Verizon does has better service or coverage in most areas though. Just not where I live.. which is out in the sticks.

Verizon here. AT&T sucks

If you look at the data most carriers are within 4% of the same coverage nationwide. It all depends on where you are located. Areas saturated with Verizon are unlikely to be appealing to ATT and vice versa.
Traveling nationwide or world wide your experience is going to be the same with just about any provider. Go 30 miles from where Verizon is the best, and ATT will be the best, go thirty miles from there and Verizon may be the best again.

Easy to choose if you are talking about coverage in about a 30 mile radius. If you are talking about nationwide coverage it going to be the same, people only notice when they CAN'T get a signal, not when they can. When roaming, most carriers pass you off to other carriers if the area is poorly served by their own equipment.

There are numerous coverage maps available online, check the maps and see which carrier provides the most service in the areas you are likely to be spending time.

I'm with ATT, real happy with them except for their European data costs, stupid expensive $300 for a couple of gigs, but at least it's reasonably fast and reliable.

I spent about 17 years in the wireless industry dating back to 1991. In the area I worked in the wireless industry, it is now owned and operated by Verizon.

Sprint and TMobile are what we referred to as "spider web" networks. They have good coverage in major metropolitan areas and along major highways.

AT&T is better, but still is lacking in buildout of a nationwide network.

Until last March, I traveled most of southern MN and northern IA for an ACDelco warehouse distributor. My employer provided all of it's reps with Verizon phones due to our travels in areas that AT&T, TMobile and Sprint cover poorly. When I would work with factory reps - many of them had the other carriers. It was not unusual for them to need to use my phone to make calls.

My wife travels all over North America for work. She has worked as far north as Dawson Creek, British Columbia and as far south as Tampa, Florida. She too has run into situations where coworkers (who live all over the U.S.) have one of the other carriers and find their phones unusable.

That is not to say that Verizon works everywhere. It doesn't.

But it works better more often than not.

This is simply not true.

If you look at a coverage map for each carrier, it is obvious that Sprint and TMobile aren't any where near AT&T's network.

And AT&T is behind Verizon in it's actual service network.

Verizon:

https://i0.wp.com/clark.com/wp-conte...00%2C335&ssl=1

AT&T

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TMobile

https://maps.t-mobile.com/pcc/images...verage-map.png

Sprint

http://www.comparecellular.com/image...verage-map.jpg

None of these maps are totally accurate - as they don't show enough detail to delineate actual service in localized areas (big area - small map).

LOL So which is true?

Basically there are two ways to calculate coverage ... geographic area, or population served. For the traveling salesman coverage in ArmPit South Dakota might be necessity, for someone else, solid service metropolitan Baltimore might be more important .. meaning higher network capacity, more 4G etc.

On physical map, coverage of South Dakota looks great ... but it doesn't serve many people. Also physical maps rarely show quality or speed of service. And of course many providers will hand you off to another carrier in areas they don't cover, depending on your plan, so it's not like you can't make a phone call.

I used T-mobile a couple of years that we were in Europe for a while .... free unlimited data .... however, it was 2G, so not the deal it sounded like, and of course none of the providers were T-mobile, you got handed off to whoever the local provider was.

If your company is going to be sending anyone out of the country for any length of time ... I'd look elsewhere than ATT, they seem to have the most horrendous prices for data. I still use them because I can keep my same number and receive calls just like I was still in the states. They are very reliable in Europe and elsewhere, but not competitive price wise in that market.

My experience across the country and in Europe is that Verizon has coverage in areas where no other provider does.

HOWEVER you should test using your phone and other peoples phones using other carriers. Or do what I did,a get a month to month phone on AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon and see what happens.

Buy what works best where you will need the phone the most. Your home.. Your work.

verizon
 

Verizon here and no complaints

I was on A T & T but couldn't use my phone in my house. I had to walk around outside until I could get a good enough signal to make a call. Even then, if I turned the wrong way the call would drop. I switched to Verizon and haven't had a problem since.

Consumer Celllular in North AL with great reception here to PA and back.

Switched from US after15 years to Verizon...best move ever!`

I've never had a problem with my carrier, but I upgrade my phone quite often. Anybody who switch's carriers will get a newer upgraded phone and hence, will have better service. The major carriers are all pretty equal for service. Its all in the details.

I have ATT and the latest IPhone. My sister on Verizon has an iPhone too and we are about the same. Also if you have poor reception in your home or work att will give you an mcell for free which works off the internet connection and eliminates cell phone coverage issues

My first cell phone years ago was on 360 Communications which became Alltel and then was bought out by ATT. Never had many issues until ATT. They were supposed to upgrade everything after taking over Alltel but it definitely got worse not better. ATT blamed my problems on my phone but that was not the problem. It was their network and bad customer service. I also had Direct TV at the time and had my fill of their price increases. So when ATT and Direct TV became partners I dropped them both and got Dish Network for my TV and put my phone on Straight Talk. Now my bad phone seems to have very few problems. Hmmm. Direct TV harassed me for over a year to come back and I had to threaten them with legal action to get them to stop calling me. My wife had Verizon for a while but had nothing but billing issues all the time so she is on Straight Talk now. I just got a new-old IPhone 6 cause my battery is slowly dying on the present one. Afraid to activate it until necessary as have had very few problems with it since going to Straight Talk. We also have Sprint in this area but its hardly even usable. Jim

Both.

My entire career in the wireless industry was in sales and sales management.

I know that might be beyond your comprehension that wireless companies need to have sales professionals in their employ, but they do.

No matter how new your phone is, if you are not within range of a tower that your provider has an agreement to utilize, it won't work.

I don't care which Iphone or Android phone you have - you are up the creek without the right provider if you want to make a call or use your data in areas that you can't pick up a signal from a tower or utilizing someone's wifi.

So, all your automotive expertise comes from Google. Got it! Next time I need a good pair of shoes I'll contact you. Carry on with your BS stories. You may have some here fooled but not me.

Do you ever tire of being wrong?

I seem to remember you claiming the tires on my wife's '72 Camaro were excessively worn from misalignment issues. Of course the brand new tires had been on the car for all of about 1 hour at the time the photo was taken...:rolleyes:

I think most folks on the board already know that I was a territory manager for an ACDelco warehouse distributor for quite a number of years prior to my retiring from full time sales.

Please get back to your personal BS. It's what you do best.

LOL! Oh the irony here Mr. Salesman. Don't you have a check to write for some vehicle work? There will always be a huge difference between a guy that Googles and writes checks versus a guy with skinned knuckles and dirt under his fingernails when it comes to vehicles. I will admit, I do not know every single thing about every single vehicle but at least I do not Google my knowledge. Something I know for a fact you cannot say or admit to because you will always be a "salesman" who cannot even keep his job history straight. I call that being a poser. Carry on.

Back to topic

It used to be very important which wireless you choose in the inland northwest, for coverage while travelling. Verizon kind of proved over time they were good. I've done a lot of installs at cell sites, design and build. So when picking lesser coverage carriers, they are riding on others towers and switching to their network to fill holes, so going with the big boys involves less network hopping at times.

Many don't know wireless isn't wireless. I've run miles and miles of fiber optic cable to cell sites. In todays world, the wireless part is only a mile or two. It goes optical across the country, and then back to wireless at the far end if calling a cell phone there. The phone companies main revenue isn't land lines anymore. They make money serving the wireless industry and hauling the traffic.

Money is also in being a tower owner and leasing spots to every Tom, Dick, and Harry cell company. When you see these towers now, they have tons of gear on them. It is multiple wireless companies, all hanging equipment.

sorry to interject a thread related entry

LOL...

From the guy who derailed the topic.

I've put in valid information to the topic, and you???

Can you hear me now?