Having worked on both AT&T’s and Verizon’s site buildouts, I can assure you that Verizon has everyone beat as far as number of cells and national coverage. I was told that part of the rationale was to be able to sell off service for piggybacking to smaller providers, like Spectrum. My Spectrum account, that costs me a grand total of $66/month for four lines with 4GB of pooled data piggybacks on Verizon.
Never had a problem using it anywhere I’ve gone. -D > On Aug 29, 2020, at 12:08 PM, OK Don via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > We had T-Mobile at first, but often had to go outside to make calls. Then > we found that we had no service when we flew to small town airports, etc. > Hard to cal for a ride when there is no service. We asked what the locals > used, and it was Verizon everywhere we went (N, S, E, W), so we switched > and it's been great everywhere. More expensive, but it works. > > On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 9:46 AM Mitch Haley via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, August 29, 2020 10:33 am, OK Don via Mercedes wrote: >>> That sounds excellent for a rural ISP! >> >> At my house, I'm lucky to listen to my T-Mo voicemail without getting >> dropped in the middle of the call (but it works OK if I step outside) >> >> I just tried Speedtest with Verizon, which give me two bars indoors and >> sometimes loses words if I walk around during a call. 90ms ping (yuck), >> 8meg down, 3 meg up. I don't know what the deal is with the ping, I used >> to get sub-20ms with 2G Alltel, 3G Verizon, and 3G Sprint. >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > > -- > OK Don > > "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to > pause and reflect." Mark Twain > > “Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” Wernher > Von Braun > 2013 F150, 18 mpg > 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg > 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com