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It's not apples to apples at this point, but I hope i will be soon. E.g if you're on Virgin mobile, yes you're "on sprint" but you can't roam onto Verizon's net
by krosaen 14y ago
It's not apples to apples at this point, but I hope i will be soon. E.g if you're on Virgin mobile, yes you're "on sprint" but you can't roam onto Verizon's network for free like you can when you're officially on sprint with a contract. So if you live in NYC it could work, but if you need solid coverage, for instance, in the midwest, you either have to pony up for the 2 year contract or have terrible coverage with one of the lower tier networks.
Also, last time I checked, Verizon, which has waaay better coverage than everyone else, does not actually make it any cheaper to go off contract.
I'm being very lazy and not providing any citations for any of my claims, I hope I'm proven wrong by more recent news or newer options.
- xiaomai 14y agoYou're right Virgin Mobile not having the free-roaming agreement that Sprint does. In practice this hasn't mattered for me in most of the Western states (Sprint has coverage along the major freeways and in rural Utah, at least). I still have older GSM feature phones though, so if I were ever in a position where I needed to be sure I would have coverage I guess I would just get a pre-paid SIM from AT&T or someone.