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Verizon has poor service in many places, eg Hawaii or when roaming up near the Canadian border. They still haven't figured out how to support international roam

Verizon has poor service in many places, eg Hawaii or when roaming up near the Canadian border. They still haven't figured out how to support international roaming reliably, half my family was w/o service for our few hours in Canada. Service in SoCal seems to be one of their last strongholds, but even then voice calls sound like a robot.

selectodude 9y ago
Their voice quality on VoLTE is perfect.
phil21 9y ago
Verizon is far and away the market leader in international roaming and it isn't even remotely close. At least in my experience. Source: Tried to get away from VZW for a decade now - international roaming always being the ultimate decider. Curious who you've found to be better. Verizon has always been that shit-tier company ran by borderline criminals which happens to have the far superior network and hard product.
- davrosthedalek 9y ago
  Have you tried t-mobile? They seem to have excellent coverage everywhere I go, which is mainly Europe. /And/ free (but slow) data.
  - GFischer 9y ago
    T-Mobile works very well where I live (Uruguay), we have some company-issued US-based cell phones and they have very good connectivity.
- skate22 9y ago
  With the highest priced international sprint service i had terrible connection in Paris several months ago. I would go 30 mins to an hour with no connection frequently. At home (Boston Ma) sprint is good enough to online game and stream at the same time. I lost my comcast connection for several hours recently, and tethering to my phone resulted in less latency... Edit: This is on Sprint's unlimited plan (around $50 a month for 1 line, $25 per line for 4 lines)
  - tapoxi 9y ago
    If RCN is available near you (I'm in Watertown), I highly recommend them. I was used to very frequent Comcast outages but haven't had a single issue with RCN after subscribing for almost two years.
- StudentStuff 9y ago
  Took multiple support calls and 2 hours of our time to get their phones to roam in Canada, whereas the rest of us were up and running when we landed. Nevermind, once we got their phones working, outbound calls still didn't work on iPhone or Android, it'd ring outbound and the other person would get the call, but the call would collapse on answering it.
  - skinnymuch 9y ago
    Comcast using Verizon doesn't have that problem in Canada at least the two times so far I've been there with their phones. Worked instantly and the prices are rock solid. Hate still having Att as my main provider when going anywhere outside America.

selectodude 9y ago

Their voice quality on VoLTE is perfect.

phil21 9y ago

Verizon is far and away the market leader in international roaming and it isn't even remotely close. At least in my experience. Source: Tried to get away from VZW for a decade now - international roaming always being the ultimate decider. Curious who you've found to be better. Verizon has always been that shit-tier company ran by borderline criminals which happens to have the far superior network and hard product.

davrosthedalek 9y ago
Have you tried t-mobile? They seem to have excellent coverage everywhere I go, which is mainly Europe. /And/ free (but slow) data.
- GFischer 9y ago
  T-Mobile works very well where I live (Uruguay), we have some company-issued US-based cell phones and they have very good connectivity.
skate22 9y ago
With the highest priced international sprint service i had terrible connection in Paris several months ago. I would go 30 mins to an hour with no connection frequently. At home (Boston Ma) sprint is good enough to online game and stream at the same time. I lost my comcast connection for several hours recently, and tethering to my phone resulted in less latency... Edit: This is on Sprint's unlimited plan (around $50 a month for 1 line, $25 per line for 4 lines)
- tapoxi 9y ago
  If RCN is available near you (I'm in Watertown), I highly recommend them. I was used to very frequent Comcast outages but haven't had a single issue with RCN after subscribing for almost two years.
StudentStuff 9y ago
Took multiple support calls and 2 hours of our time to get their phones to roam in Canada, whereas the rest of us were up and running when we landed. Nevermind, once we got their phones working, outbound calls still didn't work on iPhone or Android, it'd ring outbound and the other person would get the call, but the call would collapse on answering it.
- skinnymuch 9y ago
  Comcast using Verizon doesn't have that problem in Canada at least the two times so far I've been there with their phones. Worked instantly and the prices are rock solid. Hate still having Att as my main provider when going anywhere outside America.