I have been on Verizon for about 4 years. I have never had problems
with coverage or dropped calls. I have only had to deal with customer
service about 4 times during that time. Each time of course I was lied
to that changing my plan would not extend my contract(But I personally
do not judge a carrier by customer service----every company will
employ some jerks who don't give a shit).

The reason I am considering switching is half my friends and family
are on Cingular, the other half on Sprint. So I have to get a hefty
plan for all those minutes. I would like to at least get M2M with half
of them.

My primary, or only concern I should say, is coverage. I very rarely
travel to "rural" areas. I live in Atlanta, but whenever I travel
outside it is usually to another major city. Occasionally I travel up
and down the PCH.

So am I looking for trouble wanting to switch to either Sprint or
Cingular? I was only Sprint many, many years ago when they only
offered "metro" coverage. I have no idea what they offer now. I was
ATT customer for a year, and a Cingular customer for a year as well.
It seems I remember Cingular having bad voice quality, but again this
was years ago.

So I am fishing for any comments.