On Tue, 06 May 2008 14:20:54 -0700, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
wrote:

>Ron wrote:
>
>> Nice try at spinning. Even a Sprint MVNO has to suffer Sprints
>> 1900 Mhz poor coverage and lack of indoor penetration.
>
>It's worse than that actually. Not only do the Sprint MVNO's have to
>deal with Sprint's coverage (which according to every independent survey
>is much worse than Verizon's), they don't get to roam onto other CDMA
>carriers to compensate (a trick that many Sprint subscribers have
>mentioned is forcing roaming to Verizon). If you have Virgin, MetroPCS,
>etc., you're using Sprint sites _only_. Yesterday I got a call from a
>guy I knew and he kept dropping, and I said to him that I thought he had
>an iPhone on AT&T. He told me that it was too expensive to use all the
>time, and that he had a MetroPCS phone to use in the Bay Area.
>
>The latecomers to wireless, Sprint and T-Mobile U.S., got stuck with
>1900 MHz, and it works okay in densely populated areas where they can
>install enough towers. However an area like mine, a suburb in Silicon
>Valley, has terrible Sprint and T-Mobile coverage because the zoning in
>the large residential areas doesn't allow for cell sites. It's a
>tremendous battle every time a carrier proposes a site someplace where
>they aren't permitted. The 800 MHz carriers essentially surround the
>residential neighborhoods with sites in the commercial areas, and it's
>good enough to provide good coverage.


You mean Todd was wrong? and its not just <poor> Customer Service ?