I've had pretty good luck with them out here around York as well. I did some preliminary research when I switched over to android, because we live in the middle of a gigantic divot in the ground. Apparently Verizon was not only the only one with a tower in said hole in the ground, but also with most of the towers within a 15 mile radius.
Yeah, they're a bit expensive (upwards of $150 for unlimited data/text and meh minutes on my plan, with a media phone for my wife and a cheapie web plan there), but their signal is mostly what makes up for it. Just pray you never need their tech support/customer service, because it's a nightmare (you can't get a human voice to save your life from the automatic lines or calls they send out, and god forbid you have a billing issue, you might as well borrow someone else's phone to call them for customer service, it's faster.)
Just curious, is there any way to tell whether the service improvement is due to the updated phone, or the network itself? And have you missed the ability to have a call and do data stuff at the same time?
Well, the old phone would have times when webpages/Twitter/etc. just wouldn't load at all, despite there being a 3G signal available. No matter how slow the old phone was, pages that don't load after a minute+ probably aren't due to the phone itself.
> And have you missed the ability to have a call and do data stuff at the same time?
Nope. Never really did this before. And even if I did, having reliable Internet connectivity on the phone is worth the trade.
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Yeah, they're a bit expensive (upwards of $150 for unlimited data/text and meh minutes on my plan, with a media phone for my wife and a cheapie web plan there), but their signal is mostly what makes up for it. Just pray you never need their tech support/customer service, because it's a nightmare (you can't get a human voice to save your life from the automatic lines or calls they send out, and god forbid you have a billing issue, you might as well borrow someone else's phone to call them for customer service, it's faster.)
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There's both a Verizon Store and an Apple Store here in Ardmore, so I've got options if things go wrong. :-)
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Well, the old phone would have times when webpages/Twitter/etc. just wouldn't load at all, despite there being a 3G signal available. No matter how slow the old phone was, pages that don't load after a minute+ probably aren't due to the phone itself.
> And have you missed the ability to have a call and do data stuff at the same time?
Nope. Never really did this before. And even if I did, having reliable Internet connectivity on the phone is worth the trade.
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What? You didn't buy one of the femtocells that AT&T wanted you to buy? :-)
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