Calling my West Coast Peeps: State your location!!

[Danny4G]

I was hoping those of us here in the Western Region of the US could get to know eachother a bit.

I'm here in Universal City, CA. which is located in the East area of the San Fernando Valley. I also have a home in the West SFV in Woodland Hills. (Sorry I'm not renting any rooms)

I enjoy decent service in and around the Greater Los Angeles metro area and also spend quite a bit of time in the Inland Empire where I'm able to make voice calls and use data services without major issues.

T-Mobile has a really competitive voice network out here in both value and quality. They're a little weak in the mountainous areas and their 3G network could be a bit larger, but other than that I have no real complaints.

I came here to T-Mobile in 2007 courtesy of my employer and initially used it for my travels to the UK. After proving themselves, I signed up for an account of my own and have used them as my main provider ever since. What about you?

[Antenna]

I’m located in San Bernardino area (Inland Empire FTW). I enjoy excellent voice quality and decent 2G data. 3G is slowly leaking out this way (now available in Mentone/Yucaipa). I’ve lived out here my entire life, except for 2 years I spent in Fort Worth, TX.

I’ve used T-mobile since November of 2004, having moved over from Sprint (you couldn’t pay me enough to switch back to them). Originally I was fascinated that T-mobile had only 1 year contracts back then as a standard. I was getting 200 more minutes with T-mobile back then and their Coverage and CS support easily beat out everyone else.

Once I get 3G beefed up out here, and some better handsets, I really can’t complain. Excellent CS support, coverage, and a wonderful data/voice plan means I’ll be sticking around for a long while.

[Volaris]

I work/study/live/travel between the cities of Modesto, Merced, Madera, Fresno, Visalia, and Hanford quite regularly, along with most the small towns around these cities. When you live in small cities like these; you travel quite a bit.

[mariod1269]

live in Valley Village (aka the nice part of N. Hollywood) and work in Van Nuys

Rockin in the 818

[ilvla2]

I'm in beautiful Redwood Valley, it's located 10 miles north of Ukiah or 120 miles northwest of San Francisco up here in Mendocino County. We're in the some of the most beautiful scenery on Earth, with mountains and hills, vast forests of Redwoods, Pine, Fir, Oak and many other types of trees, many rivers, lakes and creeks, many types of wildlife like Deer, Elk, Bear and Bald Eagles, Vineyard's and Wineries (we call it Napa without the crowds, and the snooty types), and some of the most unspoiled and undeveloped coastline in the world. I was born and raised in SoCal though, born in Riverside in 1971, we moved to West Covina in the East San Gabriel Valley in 1976, and I graduated Covina High School in 1990, after that we moved to Pocatello, Idaho to help take care of grandparents and so I could go to Idaho State, where I graduated from in 1997, and we moved to Redwood Valley. I love it up here, but I also miss Covina in many ways, it's still a nice place to live, big city conveniences, but with a smaller town feel, and frequent Metrolink Train service (Covina is one of the most heavily used stations on the Metrolink San Berdoo line), I wish we'd had that there in the 70's and 80's!

T-Mobile, however, does not have any native service up here, instead relying on AT&T (formerly Edge Wireless) for service, native T-Mobile ends about 35 miles south of here in Cloverdale, in Sonoma County. AT&T's GSM service has been good, thanks to Edge Wireless's committment to rural areas like ours. We have 3G up here from AT&T and Verizon, with Verizon having the most 3G coverage, the other two carriers in the area, US Cellular and Metro PCS have no 3G as yet. My parents and 1 sister are with T-Mobile up here though, so I am kinda in the T family They may be moving to AT&T or Verizon later this year though, unless T-Mobile gets native coverage and a store up here before then that is, and T-Mobile has been doing some rollouts in many former Edge Wireless areas, like Weaverville in Trinity County, Susanville in Lassen County and Portola in Plumas County.

I work for my (Admin. Asst. and driver) dad's company, Cook Investigations, he does background checks for the Federal Government, we're the only two employees), I drive him all over rural NorCal, in the counties of Mendocino, Lake, Colusa, Glenn, Tehama, Shasta, Siskiyou, Humboldt, Del Norte, Trinity, Modoc, Lassen, Plumas, Butte, Yuba and Sutter Counties. Like I said, he has T-Mobile and for the most part T-Mobile has good service in the Sacramento and Northern Sacramento Valley's, but depends HEAVILY on AT&T for service in Northwestern California and the Coast Ranges, the Siskiyou's, the Cascades and the far Northern Sierra Nevada's. So far, the only 3G with T-Mobile in NorCal is in the Bay Area and the Sacramento area.

[ilvla2]

Wow, I would have we'd have more responses by now.

[Antenna]

T-Mobile, however, does not have any native service up here, instead relying on AT&T (formerly Edge Wireless) for service, native T-Mobile ends about 35 miles south of here in Cloverdale......

[ilvla2]

My parents and 1 sister are with T-Mobile up here though, so I am kinda in the T family They may be moving to AT&T or Verizon later this year though, unless T-Mobile gets native coverage and a store up here before then that is, and T-Mobile has been doing some rollouts in many former Edge Wireless areas, like Weaverville in Trinity County, Susanville in Lassen County and Portola in Plumas County.

I work for my (Admin. Asst. and driver) dad's company, Cook Investigations, he does background checks for the Federal Government, we're the only two employees), I drive him all over rural NorCal, in the counties of Mendocino, Lake, Colusa, Glenn, Tehama, Shasta, Siskiyou, Humboldt, Del Norte, Trinity, Modoc, Lassen, Plumas, Butte, Yuba and Sutter Counties. Like I said, he has T-Mobile and for the most part T-Mobile has good service in the Sacramento and Northern Sacramento Valley's, but depends HEAVILY on AT&T for service in Northwestern California and the Coast Ranges, the Siskiyou's, the Cascades and the far Northern Sierra Nevada's. So far, the only 3G with T-Mobile in NorCal is in the Bay Area and the Sacramento area.

It pays to read the ENTIRE message Oh by the way, T-Mobile is in the process of rolling out service in this area. I am also the person responsible for what service/technology my dad uses, among other things. So, all that said, I think I'm on the target here

[ilvla2]

. I was born and raised in SoCal though, born in Riverside in 1971, we moved to West Covina in the East San Gabriel Valley in 1976, and I graduated Covina High School in 1990
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We have a few things in common I make it down to SoCal every summer, and for the most part T-Mobile has good service EXCEPT around San Dimas. I also have an Aunt and Uncle in the IE, in Riverside.

[Antenna]

It pays to read the ENTIRE message Oh by the way, T-Mobile is in the process of rolling out service in this area. I am also the person responsible for what service/technology my dad uses, among other things. So, all that said, I think I'm on the target here

Just teasing you with the whole Edge wireless. You are the whiz with them.

I'm lucky, I have great coverage with T-mobile, and pay <$55 per line for unlimited voice, messaging, and its data w/ its quickly spreading HSPDA 3G network. Cannot imagine paying $150++ for something like that on ATT or Verizon.

And yes T-Mo coverage is good in So Cal, no issues in San Dimas for me (aunt lives there). I love Riverside BTW, go there a ton. Mission Inn is the best.

[jdavison]

San Diego is in the house!

~J.

[mikethaler]

After 4+ decades in Bkly., now split my time between Ca. and Miami. Business in both places - altho may get out of Fl. situation soon.
Been w. T-M since long before their fore-runner came to Ca. Had a NYC phone on Omnipoint - a $20/mo acct to use when overseas. PacBell (Cingular/att) was the only GSM carrier here and they charged several dollars/min to roam anywhere overseas. Omnipoint charged 29 cents/min. for incoming in most major countries. I am still grandfathered in on those rates.

The only traveling i now do w. in Ca. is to Fresno every 6 weeks or so. T-M provides coverage wherever I go in the Bay area and in the Central Valley. The only place they are weak where i sometimes go are parts of Marin County.

Now that we have unlimited voice service for an average of under $50 a line, we are paying MetroPCS rates to have service from a major nationwide carrier - couldn't be happier!!

...mike

Danny - while i have your attention, I think subdividing the "Coverage Section" into multiple sub-sections is a mistake. In total, there are not that many posts in all the sub-sections combined. There are many of us that are interested in multiple coverage areas - but don't like the hassle of having to jump around.

[dtv757]

i'm in virginia beach
coverage is really good except inside some buildings

[Sir Topas]

I was in Santa Monica, now I'm in North Orange County (Fullerton area). Always had great reception except for a few dead spots, but I'm not usually hanging out in them so it's all good. Pretty happy with T-Mobile's reception, pricing, and customer service. I can't wait for the Touch Pro 2 and the MyTouch!

[dcascario]

I am here in Canyon Lake CA. I had GREAT voice and 3G for a year here. Last tuesday, I lost everything and T-Mobile doesn't seem to want to help