Thanks to all.

Tmobile never worked reliably for me from home. Verizon is very good.

The cingualr coverage map says I am in a good area.

I may give it a try. I mainly need downtown Los Gatos, Campbell (near
Winchester and San Tomas) and downtown Campbell.



Thanks for the inputs..


<scharf.steven@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Dave wrote:
>> How is the Cingualr coverage in Campbell, CA 95008. I thinking about
>> switching from Verizon.
>
> All of Campbell is 95008, so going by zip code is not sufficient. It's
> like many Bay Area suburbs where one zip code covers a relatively large
> area. Along Bascom, Winchester, Hamilton, and Campbell Avenue the
> coverage is probably just fine, it's when you get into the
> non-commercial areas that you have to worry.
>
> That said, Campbell doesn't have the issues that some other Bay Area
> cities have with new suburbs in the nether regions having poor coverage
> from one carrier or another. Cupertino has large swaths where T-Mobile
> and Sprint suck, because these are off in the hills where no one wants
> a tower. Campbell is pretty flat and compact, and other than maybe over
> along parts of Dry Creek Road between Bascom and Leigh, you should have
> no problem with any carrier.
>
> When I lived in Campbell, about 15 years ago, I had AT&T/Cellular One
> TDMA and it was fine, so Cingular GSM should also be fine, since it's
> the same network.
>
> I still notice that the Santa Cruz mountains have much better coverage
> with Verizon than with Cingular, but if you don't care about non-urban
> areas, then Cingular should be fine.
>