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Width isn’t really the right measurement. Yeah, a carrier has to blanket the US, but any given user only uses a small fraction of that, and they have users all
by veridies 8y ago
Width isn’t really the right measurement. Yeah, a carrier has to blanket the US, but any given user only uses a small fraction of that, and they have users all over the country. Density seems like a better standard.
- scarface74 8y agoBut it does make difference in rural areas. I have a family member that does social work in south ga. When I go down there, I don't get a signal outside of the city center with T-mobile. She travels a lot and she needs a good signal. Verizon has a good signal everywhere. T-mobile signal is also infamously bad within buildings. When I'm at work it's not a big deal - I just use WiFi calling but if I were frequently visiting clients' sites it would be a big deal. People are willing to pay Verizon prices for that guaranteed coverage. There are also places in north ga with bad coverage by T-mobile. They just happen to go out of their way to have coverage in college towns, but once you veer to far away - nothing. The trade off is worth it for me, but not to other people.
- reaperducer 8y agoIt doesn't sound like you travel very much. Or at least not to anywhere interesting. The conventional wisdom is that Verizon has the best coverage, followed by AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint. But coverage is like politics -- everything is local. Or in this case, hyper-local. For example, T-Mobile has outstanding coverage in the middle of the country thanks to its early acquisitions of PrimeCo and VoiceStream. But I know a resort on the west coast where there is no Verizon, no AT&T, and no T-Mobile coverage. The only thing that connects is Sprint, because of an old Nextel tower in the middle of nowhere that was put in for the Forest Service back in push-to-talk days.