On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:50:47 -0800, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
wrote in <45edf04c$0$27214$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>:

>Dennis Ferguson wrote:
>> On 2007-03-06, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
>>> Darth Jeff wrote:
>>>> 1. Does the claim that Verizon has superior coverage include AMPs?
>>> It's unclear if Verizon's claim of "Most Reliable Network" includes
>>> AMPS, but since they started making that claim back when most of their
>>> handsets were tri-mode, I would think that it does.
>>
>> I don't believe that, in the Bay area at least. I've yet to be anywhere
>> in the Bay area which had *Verizon* AMPS coverage but which lacked
>> Verizon CDMA coverage. It may be I've not been everywhere yet, but
>> I've been a lot of places so areas where Verizon has AMPS but hasn't
>> added CDMA must be fairly rare.
>
>I could give you a list of a lot of places! Parts of Mount Tam, parts of
>Big Basin, parts of Tilden park, parts of Forest of Nisene Marks state
>park, areas north of Pescadero on Pescadero Road in San Mateo County,
>much of Old La Honda Road, actually quite a bit of rural San Mateo County.

None of those are true.

>Verizon AMPS is widely used in the Bay Area, including for the roadside
>call boxes on many of the roads.

Also not true.

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