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Sprint in northern MI?
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Where exactly in northern Michigan? Upper lower peninsula or the U.P.?
Either way, get online and check Sprints coverage maps. The farther north you go, the less coverage you'll get and slower too.
Where exactly in northern Michigan? Upper lower peninsula or the U.P.?
Either way, get online and check Sprints coverage maps. The farther north you go, the less coverage you'll get and slower too.
When I go to Tawas and Oscoda my service is fine. I even had ok service in the UP last year in a few locations. MI Tech area.
Sprint has very spotty company coverage in northern MI. You'd be roaming onto Verizon towers anywhere but a few metro areas. You'll get good coverage, but if you roam over 30% of your usage Sprint will cut you off.
Also there is VERY little 3G coverage in northern MI, just areas like Traverse City, Mackinac Island, and a few other isolated single cell sites. Data will all be ridiculously slow (as opposed to Sprint's 3G network, which is merely painfully slow).
Edit: Just to be accurate, I checked the verbiage - it's not 30%, it's a "Majority" of voice calls and 300MB or a majority of data:
From http://shop2.sprint.com/en/legal/legal_terms_privacy_popup.shtml
Also there is VERY little 3G coverage in northern MI, just areas like Traverse City, Mackinac Island, and a few other isolated single cell sites. Data will all be ridiculously slow (as opposed to Sprint's 3G network, which is merely painfully slow).
Edit: Just to be accurate, I checked the verbiage - it's not 30%, it's a "Majority" of voice calls and 300MB or a majority of data:
From http://shop2.sprint.com/en/legal/legal_terms_privacy_popup.shtml
