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People who live in the United States of America - Which carrier?
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I'm in LA and I've been with AT&T since before the first iPhone. I'm considering switching to Verizon, as AT&T LTE coverage is pretty bad in LA. Very very spotty. I would love some more insight into Verizon's. Which do you like better?
VOLTE and Simultaneous Data and Voice are important to me.
T mobile here but I have been with them when they were powertel back in the 90's. Then voice stream etc to T-Mobile .
I was with T-Mobile when I had my Sidekick and all my flip-phones. I switched to AT&T with the first iPhone.
Been with AT&T for 8 years now. Never had an issue and the customer service is great. Used to have Verizon before them and the customer service was atrocious. It's why I left. Also, couldn't use data/voice at the same time which seemed stupid to me.
T-Mobile and Sprint are the worst in terms of coverage where I am. Not even a choice. I also travel a lot and need service along the Eastern seaboard.
T-Mobile and Sprint are the worst in terms of coverage where I am. Not even a choice. I also travel a lot and need service along the Eastern seaboard.
Why should anyone avoid Sprint? Their plans are as good as others and there signal is strong. Also they don't seem to have many problems with spamming call from unwanted sales jerks.
ATT, primarily because I'm on the grandfathered unlimited. Otherwise I'd probably be on Verizon. T-mobile doesn't have good coverage where I live so they're not worth considering
Their plans are only good because that's the only way they're still around.
Their signal is terrible.
In eight years with AT&T, and prior to ATT, five years with T-Mobile, I never got one sales call.
With Voice over LTE, yes. As long as you have LTE coverage, you can make calls and surf the web.
Well Sprint is working well for me. Glad your happy with who ever your now with.
I'm on T-Mobile, wife on Sprint.
T-Mobile is fantastic where I work and live. Rockland, Westchester, NYC, NY and CT.
When I'm traveling in more rural PA areas for example, my signal often goes to Edge or voice only. Sprint seems to at least have usable 3G in a lot of rural areas where I've got no data on T-Mobile. It's always nice to have a mix of carriers in the family to increase coverage.
T-Mobile is fantastic where I work and live. Rockland, Westchester, NYC, NY and CT.
When I'm traveling in more rural PA areas for example, my signal often goes to Edge or voice only. Sprint seems to at least have usable 3G in a lot of rural areas where I've got no data on T-Mobile. It's always nice to have a mix of carriers in the family to increase coverage.
Verizon for the best coverage, reliability and speed. T-Mobile for the best deal and fast network. If you want wifi calling I think Verizon may be the only one not offering it yet.
I've had iphones since the first one, all fully paid by work (the 'benefit' of being on call 24/7...) and always with AT&T When they downsized me earlier this year they let me keep my phone and number and just transferred it to my own AT&T account. I mostly stream itunes radio in the car which is covered by t-mobile's thing where streaming music services don't count against your data cap. So I could be on t-mobile with a 1gb cap instead of the 6gb I needed on AT&T which cut my monthly fee down considerably. I've noticed in certain areas I may drop to 4g speeds or even edge but for the most part I get LTE. So far I haven't had any issues. Well one month I went over my 1gb cap (another bonus for T-Mobile is when you go past your data cap they just throttle you but don't charge overage fees) and I just said the data usage, which I reset every month on first day of billing period, showed like 1.4GB of data on music. There were like sorry about that and temporarily bumped my data cap for that month.
As an aside, while itunes radio doesn't count towards datacap, if you have itunes match any songs you download from there do count. But that will be solved once I get the 6s with 64gb space instead of the 16gb one I have now.
As an aside, while itunes radio doesn't count towards datacap, if you have itunes match any songs you download from there do count. But that will be solved once I get the 6s with 64gb space instead of the 16gb one I have now.
Sprint and T-Mobile's coverages are a joke in my area, which leaves Big Red & Ma Bell.
I left ATT a while back bc of data coverage and customer service.
VZW's rural LTE can't be beat where I live/work and their (ONLINE) customer service is generally top notch.
I avoid carrier brick-and-mortar stores at all costs.
I left ATT a while back bc of data coverage and customer service.
VZW's rural LTE can't be beat where I live/work and their (ONLINE) customer service is generally top notch.
I avoid carrier brick-and-mortar stores at all costs.
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AT&T. Had Verizon for ages, even before it was Verizon. Problem developed when I started using smartphones and they throttled me when I hit 1 or 2 GB. Either that or the network was so congested that everything took ages to load. YouTube was barely worth opening. It got old and in 4 years never got better. I finally ditched them for AT&T.
Verizon has much better coverage here in AZ, especially when traveling up north to go camping on the Mogollon Rim, but I hardly leave town anymore so it's not that big of a deal.
Verizon has much better coverage here in AZ, especially when traveling up north to go camping on the Mogollon Rim, but I hardly leave town anymore so it's not that big of a deal.
AT&T! Even tho their sales reps are total idiots much of the time....I stick with them. I have the grandfathered data plan etc.
Had Verizon also, went to AT&T for the iPhone way back when.
T-Mobile has horrible service in my area....so they are not an option.
Had Verizon also, went to AT&T for the iPhone way back when.
T-Mobile has horrible service in my area....so they are not an option.
For a while i had Virgin Mobil they were using Sprints cell towers all was good for around eight Months,then one day all my incoming calls were going to voice mail.
Called Virgin Mobil and for around two hours first one then another person tried to help, then they just told me they were sending me a LETTER in the mail and hung up on me.
A letter I need a phone that works and works all the time.
Went to Sprint store got a new phone and a new contract, there a guy said Virgin Mobil does use Sprint cell tower,s but Virgin Mobil does not pay for a strong signal. My problem i was failing to get a signal in my home.
I had been with Sprint before and changed to save a few bucks,glad i am back with Sprint now my phone works all the time.
Hope you have better look with your new provider.
Which does not affect me at all. Again, if you use your phone as a communication device, email, texts, twitter feeds, etc. are not slowed at all. I'm not knocking anyone who wants to pay more to stream videos all day, play games, etc. but for me I am done being fooled by the carriers into believing I NEED to pay more for something that does not give me any value. There is no difference in the performance of my phone now than with AT&T.
I agree with you if one just needs a phone, to make and receive calls,send or receive a few text messages. No need for the speed from a service provider.
But if a providers signal can't be reached from time to time,they can't be depended on even if they are cheaper.