Steven J. Sobol wrote:
> In article <45a2db6d$0$69006$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, SMS wrote:
>
>> Actually, if you look at all the independent studies, there are better
>> and poorer providers. Verizon tends to be the best provider in the most
>> parts of the country. You may find an isolated area where another
>> provider is better, but overall, you need to go by the survey results.
>
> You and Mij are both right. But try to find native VZW coverage in
> Arkansas or Oklahoma, including the large cities, like Little Rock and
> Oklahoma City. Nothing.

Are you saying no coverage, or no native coverage? Most users just want
coverage, and don't care all that much about which carrier is providing
it, occasional non-native coverage is no biggie. In the past two weeks
I've roamed, with a Verizon phone, onto Golden State Cellular, both CDMA
and AMPS, and onto Cingular AMPS. I wasn't thrilled about roaming onto
Cingular, as I think I will be charged for it, but since there was no
CDMA or GSM in the area I was, at least I was doing better than 95% or
so or Cingular's own subscribers that can't use Cingular's AMPS network
at all.