My impression from personal experience and following newsgroups is that
coverage varies with each carrier in different regions of the country.

In the Silicon Valley, Verizon provides me much better coverage than
Cingular used to. About 5 years ago a friend tried Sprint and complained
that nobody could understand him. He changed carriers (I'm not sure to
which).

My brother lives on a golf course in La Quinta, California. Verizon works,
but Cingular and Nextel are a problem. Sprint is unknown.

Years ago, Sprint began advertising that their long distance was 10 cents
per minute. The early commercials did not yet have the footnote that you
had to be a subscriber. I used the "pick code" to make my calls on Sprint.
They then billed me 25 cents per minute and refused to adjust my bill
because I was "a casual caller." Later commercials included the
subscription warning. I will never be a Sprint customer because they
cheated me.



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