Diamond Dave wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:00:18 -0800, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It depends on the area, but in the west, including California, Nevada,
>> Oregon, and Washington, Verizon is magnitudes better than Cingular.
>> Also, in Alaska, the CDMA and AMPS coverage is much better than the GSM
>> coverage. I guess there are some areas where Cingular is better, but in
>> the west, Cingular is hemorrhaging subscribers that are moving to Verizon.
>
> Skagway, AK is probably the exception to the rule. My wife visited
> there last June and her Stinkular GSM phone worked there, but my
> brother in law's Sprint CDMA phone did not. I assume there is no CDMA
> there, unless his phone didn't have a PRL that allowed roaming on
> whatever local carrier was there.

The GSM coverage in Alaska is improving greatly. When I first visited
there about three years ago, there was no GSM at all, just a lot of TDMA
and AMPS, and CDMA in the larger towns.