On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:09:14 -0700, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
wrote in <4602c655$0$27218$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>:

>Having AMPS can be a big advantage if you travel outside the urban
>areas. Even though probably every Verizon AMPS tower also has CDMA, the
>AMPS has greater range so the coverage is better than with CDMA-only. ...

Not true.

>Some people are confused regarding the Verizon coverage maps,

They only confusion is your attempt to obfuscate.

>which will
>not show AMPS if the area is also covered by digital. What the maps
>don't show is that the concurrent AMPS coverage reaches a wider area
>than the CDMA coverage.

They don't show that because it isn't true.

>It can make a huge difference in coverage.

Actually not.

>In all areas of the country Verizon coverage was better than Cingular
>service in the most extensive independent surveys. In some areas the
>difference was small, in some it was very large. In the area I live in,
>the San Francisco Bay Area, Verizon is far superior to Cingular in terms
>of coverage according to every independent survey. Besides having less
>dropped calls and better coverage, it has a another advantage that feeds
>on itself, in that a large majority of people in the area have Verizon,
>which results in less need for peak minutes as most calls are mobile to
>mobile.

Again, not true. Cingular has arguably the best digital coverage of any
carrier.

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