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American People: Whats Your 3g iPhone Coverage Like?

Utah is the jackpot! I used to live in California and the 3G was pretty good..... Or so I thought! Man it's awesome out here! I feel like it's better than my wireless at home.. Maybe because 95% of Utahans live in the same part of Utah... But it has great coverage! I swear we need to check on this or something, but I bet out of all the AT&T users in Utah 75% have an iPhone no joke!
 
diesel said:
gotta disagree with you vehemently. NYC is pretty bad. I work in times square and the signal outside is okay, but indoors, it's hit or miss. I also have an AT&T blackberry for work and that always has a signal even when the iphone 3g signal is dead. On really nice days when all the tourists are out, the 3g signal outside is even worse. There are days when the signal is just crap. It's not just me, i have quite a few coworkers with similar experiences. In fact, I do believe at one point it was so bad that i heard they stopped selling iphone 3gs in nyc.

honestly, I have not seen any improvement in the service yet and this coming from someone who's had the iphone from day 1 of iphon 2g. With that said, I hardly talk on my mobile, so my primary use is for the apps and such but sure would be nice to have a decent connection or A connection when one is needed.
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You get signal with your Blackberry but not your iPhone... and that is a network problem? Wouldn't that be a device problem?

Like the DFW reply... North Dallas area is awesome coverage. I mostly don't connect to hotspots when I'm out because it's slower than my 3G.
 
substeel said:
I also spend a lot of time in New Orleans and it's pretty spotty there. During large events like Jazz Fest the ATT network can not handle the crowds and your best to turn off 3g just to ensure you can make phone calls.
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Oh yes...When football season starts up, we are almost always at the stadium on game days...and the phone registers as having 3g service, but nothing ever loads because the network is sooooo bogged down.
 
I live in Raleigh, NC, which is not a big city, but we're the state capital and moderately heavily populated. I rarely have a problem with 3G here, but I do tend to drop to EDGE in a hurry when I get outside of the city limits. In my experience here in NC, as long as I'm inside of a city/town or traveling on a real highway and not some country road, 3G is usually pretty good.
 
In the areas in Southern California where I live and travel, 3g coverage is pretty decent. But this is such a large region with millions of people that I am certain my experience is not duplicated by everyone.
I think that's part of what makes this such a difficult topic- I live in an area where coverage is good, so I say "Coverage in LA is good." My coworker lives in a different part of LA where his signal drops, so he says "Coverage in LA is terrible." We're both right, but we are talking about two different parts of a very complicated region.:D
 
My experience with 3G coverage has been fair in central Alabama.

I was surprised to have 3G coverage in Juneau Alaska when I was there earlier in the year.
 
I use my iPhone mainly in southern New Jersey and I get full bars and 3G almost everywhere I go. Last month, I took it to Southern Virginia, and all I got was Edge.
 
diesel said:
gotta disagree with you vehemently. NYC is pretty bad. I work in times square and the signal outside is okay, but indoors, it's hit or miss. I also have an AT&T blackberry for work and that always has a signal even when the iphone 3g signal is dead. On really nice days when all the tourists are out, the 3g signal outside is even worse. There are days when the signal is just crap. It's not just me, i have quite a few coworkers with similar experiences. In fact, I do believe at one point it was so bad that i heard they stopped selling iphone 3gs in nyc.

honestly, I have not seen any improvement in the service yet and this coming from someone who's had the iphone from day 1 of iphon 2g. With that said, I hardly talk on my mobile, so my primary use is for the apps and such but sure would be nice to have a decent connection or A connection when one is needed.
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I have to agree, the signal in the NYC/NJ (especially Jersey City) is very spotty, and I don't think it's AT&T, I think it's the iPhone's antenna. My sister's slider phone, which is on my AT&T plan, get's better reception everywhere we go together. Hopefully iPhone 4's antenna get's better reception. I played with a Sprint Evo near Penn Station, and it was really fast, and in the same area, I played with Verizon's HTC Incredible, and it was ridiculously fast. Both phones were on 3G, not wifi. If the iPhone 4's antenna isn't much better than the iPhone 3G, I'm gone. Love what the iPhone gives us, as far as multimedia, and internet, but if you can't use the phone, which is the MAIN function, then the iPhone is pretty useless.
 
I live in the Western Catskills and the coverage by AT&T or Verizon is nice if you are in sizeable towns or up on the highest of the local mountains, otherwise you live in what they call "spotty service" and we call DEAD ZONE. My dead zone is 400 square miles with a couple known exceptions on top of hills that also happen to have roads on them. You can only get 3G in a couple of those parking spaces, however.
 

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Great coverage here by the beach in Los Angeles...There are just a couple of dead zones...Oddly enough, inside my gym in Venice...and the surrounding block, there is little coverage. but here in Playa del Rey (at home), great coverage.

This was NOT the case with Sprint in this area. Sprint had VERY spotty coverage.
 
I get great 3G coverage here in Bloomington-Normal, IL. Full bars practically everywhere with speeds almost reaching 2 Mbps.

I also get great coverage in the Chicago area. I really can't complain.
 
Southern California here. I'm all over LA and Orange Counties and I have no problem with signal.

When I go to Las Vegas, which includes driving through a lot of sparsely populated desert, I have no problems, and traveling through northeast OH and the metro Boston area is fine too.

In short, the only times I've had dropped calls has been in NYC. More specifically, Manhattan on weekdays. Too many people mashed on that island, all trying to use their iPhones at the same time. :eek: Even then, it wasn't horrible, but I haven't lived there since I've had an iPhone; I'm sure it would frustrate me if I had to deal with it constantly.
 
treyjustice said:
I live in North Texas. Near Dallas/Fort Worth in Arlington. 3G coverage here is GREAT. I have it everywhere. Coverage is great pretty much everywhere here in north texas. We also have CLEAR 4G internet all across DFW
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Live in Arlington too, and i agree 100%! Using the speed test app, 3G here rivals wifi speeds. When i go higher north to Lubbock for school, it's really good also (although since At&t has gone so far as have the Texas Tech football stadium named after them, i'm not surprised).
 
youngplaya0228 said:
Live in Arlington too, and i agree 100%! Using the speed test app, 3G here rivals wifi speeds. When i go higher north to Lubbock for school, it's really good also (although since At&t has gone so far as have the Texas Tech football stadium named after them, i'm not surprised).
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True, 3G coverage is good, but voice not always so much.
 
I also live in the carolinas, mainly SC...

coverage is very very bad for 3g or edge...

we used to have alltel (now verizon) and it blows At&t out of the water... it was honestly phenomenal for rural areas...

I really really really hope the new iphone has a better antenna on it... I can see people with AT&T service who have different phones get reception where my phone says no service.... (and it's that's common)
 
They can talk maps all day. Maps doesn't show strength of signal. I've been in areas where verizon had 3G and I was still getting better speeds on edge than my buddy was getting on his verizon phone. It's all about areas and how much is spent boosting signal. The bigger markets get the investment first. That's the reality of it.
 
Very few dropped calls with 3g service pretty much everywhere I go. There should never be any bitching about at&t's service because it's a very easy fix. If it's not working ffs, fix it...i.e. change provider.
 
people must be lying about att. ive been to around 30 states and only dropped 3g 3 times. once in the cat skills. one in the desert and the other in a cannon. and 2 out of the three i had edge. i even had 3g in the grand cannon.
 
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