On Wed, 5 May 2004, Tim Schneider wrote: > For cellular, the only 'affordable' plan for data (IMHO) is > with TMobile. I cannot comment on their nationwide > coverage.. in AZ they work along the freeway corridors > and that is about it. I've had no problems in major metro > areas (San Diego, Los Angeles, San Jose, Phoenix, Dallas) I have T-Mobile, and like it, but their coverage isn't very good. You can count on it working in metro areas and along most freeway corridors, but when you start to really get into rural areas it doesn't work. It doesn't seem to work anywhere in Nebraska, for example, and there are only a few isolated islands of coverage in Montana and eastern Washington. In Michigan it works great in the whole southern part of the state, but not when you get up north. My advice is to carefully study the national coverage maps for various cell phone providers and think hard about where you're likely to be. Decide when it's acceptable to you to not have service. If you want service as much as possible, some companies (but not T-Mobile) still offer dual-mode phones that work on the old analog network. Those plans tend to be more expensive, but they give you maximum coverage. (Note that a dual-mode phone and a dual-band phone are not the same thing. A "dual-band" phone may be a digital-only phone that also works on the European cell phone network.)
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