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People who live in the United States of America - Which carrier?

Which carrier do you use for your iPhone?

  • AT&T

    Votes: 225 50.2%

  • Sprint

    Votes: 20 4.5%

  • T-Mobile

    Votes: 73 16.3%

  • Verizon

    Votes: 115 25.7%

  • Other

    Votes: 15 3.3%
  • Total voters
    448
CEmajr said:
With Verizon everywhere that they have LTE has VoLTE live.
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Interesting. Reading further it seems that is indeed the case. Do both devices need to currently be on an hd voice call? I know my friend who is a vzw die hard still drops data when calling...

Edit: based on user reports that doesn't seem correct either. I need to ask him more about this. Find out what's going on.
 
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kds1 said:
Are Verizon phones compatible overseas? ATT is GSM, while Verizon made the wrong choice with CDMA. Have they fixed that?
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The Verizon iPhone 4s (and newer) have been able to work on GSM overseas.

PowerBook-G5 said:
Verizon rules for coverage and LTE saturation, at least here on the east coast.
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Not where I live (which is the largest metro area in Virgina). Verizon's voice/3G network here is legendary, but their LTE network here isn't nearly as good as AT&T's. Verizon is supposed to "come back" <they were the first to offer LTE here, many months before AT&T> and fix it at some point <seems like they installed the minimum amount of LTE on towers here to "consider" this area covered>, but that hasn't happened yet.
 
lordofthereef said:
Interesting. Reading further it seems that is indeed the case. Do both devices need to currently be on an hd voice call? I know my friend who is a vzw die hard still drops data when calling...

Edit: based on user reports that doesn't seem correct either. I need to ask him more about this. Find out what's going on.
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Verizon's does seem to be nationwide in all their LTE areas but apparently it requires both users to be using a VoLTE compatible handset and using Verizon service. I didn't know it had that restriction on it.

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story...olte-calling-interoperability-2015/2014-11-03
 
I've been on Verizon for about nine years, and my family has been with them for at least ten if not longer. It started with my dad having his work phone with them (he's a corporate CPA who travels a lot to meet with clients). Having Verizon has been really helpful for us with how spread out my family has been. We all started in Pittsburgh, PA. Then my brother went to college in Boston. Then my parents and I moved out to Minneapolis. Then I came to college outside of Kansas City (Verizon is one of the few to have LTE and 3G when you're driving through Iowa). My parents then moved back east to Baltimore. With all of that and my dad regularly traveling all over the country, Verizon's widespread coverage has been important to us despite the price. AT&T would probably be about the same, and T-Mobile doesn't quite have the coverage yet.

But honestly if I had to pay for my own phone, I'd probably go with T-Mobile. They're more affordable than Verizon or AT&T, and they offer a lot of incentives for young people like truly unlimited data, free music streaming, and rollover data. My boyfriend switched about a year and a half ago from AT&T and hasn't looked back other than when we drove through Iowa to go to Chicago. T-mobile has spotty coverage along I-35 and I-80. For the few times we leave the KC metro, I feel better knowing I have coverage on Verizon in case of an emergency.

I may try to convince my parents to allow me to pay for my line (and maybe bf's if and when we tie the knot) so I can stay on Verizon in the future. Right now it wouldn't be bad at $40 for my line access and $20 for 1/4 of the data bucket before taxes and fees. And now if I don't upgrade I qualify for the $25 BYOD discount if my dad responds to the email they sent.
 
So I'm on AT&T. My boss has Verizon. While at work, I have 4-5 LTE. He had to get a micro-cell, and his still doesn't work half the time (and that whole "talk OR web" thing). Sprint? Junk around here. T-Mobile... No experience.

Happy as heck with my service with AT&T
 
kahuna2793 said:
I'm in so cal riverside county
Sprint not good
Verizon & AT&T great lte everywhere
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My parents live in Cherry Valley (Beaumont/Banning area).

You're not kidding. 3G when we visited for Christmas and it sucked.
 
Verizon. AT&T is also available in my area but I'm grandfathered in unlimited data so sticking with Big Red for now. T-Mobile doesn't have 4G where I live yet or I'd be on them.
 
T-Mobile. Best prices hands down. Crazy fast LTE. Coverage where you work/live is either on point or it isn't. For me, it's great. I wouldn't dream of changing carriers.
 
I'm kinda surprised Verizon scored so badly in the poll. I know they are not everything to everybody, but their coverage is generally better than the rest. Maybe coverage is not the most important thing anymore to some, but it is always the most critical thing for me. There are whole towns in the west where I found verizon to be the only service available. Back country roads/highways where it's verizon or nothing. Don't know if Silverton CO ever got any other service or not, but used to be Verizon or none at all. Verizon is pretty much king of coverage in this part of the world. Doesn't mean I love them, just their coverage as my device is only as good as the ability to use it where I'm at. Would hate to be in an isolated area and need service and have none. Verizon usually always gets a signal.
 
Verizon, I seriously considered switching over to T-mobile and almost did, but in the end I decided to stay. Coverage is very good. One time my boyfriend and I met at a metro station in DC. He has AT&T. He had no service down there but I still had full bars of 3G, sometimes catching the occasional 1-2 bars of LTE. I was impressed then. Throughout our whole date I noticed he had less coverage than Verizon.

I live in Tallahassee, FL though and here AT&T has about the same coverage as Verizon - in some places it's actually better. I'm just sticking with Verizon, though. No complaints regarding coverage - LTE speed is acceptable as well. I pull about 15~30mbps regularly.
 
I have had Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T. Verizon has the best cell coverage but is the most expensive and doesn't have unlimited data. T-Mobile is the cheapest and has great 4g coverage but won't do contracts anymore, and AT&T seems to be a nice middle ground. I can't complain
 
Switched from AT&T to T-Mobile in November, no issues at all.

I got sick of the throttling on AT&T, so now have truly unlimited data. Plus the international features on T-Mobile are unbeatable.....free calling to many countries, unlimited text & data in 120+ countries, and free wifi calling back to the states from anywhere in the world.

Also, I was using my iPhone 5 before on T-Mobile and was kind of disappointed....would drop LTE, spotty coverage, but now that I have a 6+ it's all better. Has to do with the cellular bands.
 
I just switched to T-Mobile at the end of November after having been on my parents Sprint plan for the last three years.

I've been pretty happy with T-Mobile so far. Coverage here in North Texas can be spotty in some places (mostly deep inside buildings like Walmart), but it generally works well most of the time. I'm consistently on 4G or LTE, and have only dropped to Edge a few times for a brief second or two.

Considering that it's costing me less than $100/month for an Unlimited plan with no contract I'm satisfied. Customer service has been great on T-Mobile as well.

Even being in an area that has supposedly pretty decent Sprint signal, service was abysmal with Sprint on my iPhone 5 for the last two years - I was mainly on their painfully slow 3G network where speeds of .5mb or lower were common, and their LTE speeds only got over 3-4mb maybe once or twice.

I've gotten speeds of 30mb down on T-Mobile.:D

If your data network isn't fast enough to stream a song over Spotify while I'm driving then it's a sign that you need to get your "stuff" together, Sprint. Shameful.:confused:
 
eyoungren said:
My parents live in Cherry Valley (Beaumont/Banning area).

You're not kidding. 3G when we visited for Christmas and it sucked.
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Using Verizon, I have usually gotten better reception than my ATT buddies when hiking in the mountains just north of your folks (Forest Falls and Angelus Oaks). I don't know if that holds true anymore or not since a lot of them have jumped to Verizon.
 
Newtons Apple said:
Looking at the poll ATT is far ahead. I thought that Verizon was the biggest carrier and if so I would have thought they would be ahead.
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Keep in mind though that AT&T started out as the only iPhone service provider. The numbers could reflect people who started out on AT&T because there was no other choice and just never left.

Having said that though, I think the "voice and data" thing is a big decision factor for many people.

And having said that, I'm on Verizon which has the most reliable signal here in my little slice of New England.
 
CEmajr said:
Verizon's does seem to be nationwide in all their LTE areas but apparently it requires both users to be using a VoLTE compatible handset and using Verizon service. I didn't know it had that restriction on it.

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story...olte-calling-interoperability-2015/2014-11-03
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You're thinking of HD voice, which requires both users to have compatible phones and service. VoLTE works regardless of who you are calling.

cbreze said:
I'm kinda surprised Verizon scored so badly in the poll.
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I think it's due to AT&T having the original iPhone, so after users switched for that many stuck with them.
 
geoff5093 said:
You're thinking of HD voice, which requires both users to have compatible phones and service. VoLTE works regardless of who you are calling.


I think it's due to AT&T having the original iPhone, so after users switched for that many stuck with them.
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Oh ok thanks for the clarification.
 
jpine said:
Using Verizon, I have usually gotten better reception than my ATT buddies when hiking in the mountains just north of your folks (Forest Falls and Angelus Oaks). I don't know if that holds true anymore or not since a lot of them have jumped to Verizon.
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I have and have had a few friends in your area. A bit more northwest I'd say, taking the back way through Yucaipa. :D

My mom has a Verizon and an AT&T iPhone. She never seems to have issues there, although I can't say much for the call quality when I call her on the AT&T phone.
 
From Minnesota here, have T-Mobile currently.

I've been an AT&T customer since the Cingular days, but the bills just got to be too much. International calls added up FAST too.

I switched to T-Mobile in December, and got unlimited 4g LTE, talk and text on 2 lines for $100 per month.

I've been very happy with the service in my metro area, and wifi-calling has been pretty great as well.
 
I've been on AT&T for 15 years now. I have tried out T-Mobile a couple of times but they have very poor data coverage where I live and work, so it's just not useable for me. Verizon has SLIGHTLY better coverage in some areas but worse coverage in in a couple places that my wife and I frequent. I have avoided Sprint like the plague.
 
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