pglaves
#13338
Interesting, I'll assume you've got people you know with other than ATT that have the same experiences.
Of course. This is a tight knit and informed community. There are spots 20 miles east of me where folks can get Verizon due to a tower south of Marathon. But generally AT&T and Verizon have similar coverage with only minor differences, while Sprint is virtually absent. Then there are the privately owned contract towers that add $$ to your bill regardless of your carrier plan even when you don't know it until you get the bill.
When you look at the broader areas in the rural west there are of course spots where one carrier exists while others don't. But the overall picture remains the same: vast areas without coverage. For a note of contrast, fifteen years ago when we traveled in Botswana, cell phone coverage was seemingly everywhere. They never had a decent land line system so when they developed a national phone system it was cellular.