I just bought T-MO 30 100/ulim/ulim prepaid plan to try t-mobile in Northeast area. My canadian friend needed US phone for a week. I must admit t-mo has very solid coverage here. I plan to wait till my contract with ATT is over and jump with t-mo. May be by that time iphones be available in t-mo. In my place I have more bars with t-mo compare to ATT. T-mo has faster internet here, but ATT has LTE in Boston. The only thing I'm doing m.biking and want to chack t-mo in parks/woods next summer. I need a phone for emergency.
VZW is not a choice for me since they have 0 coverage in my 2nd office.
Sprint and MetroPSC :-) ?
I just bought T-MO 30 100/ulim/ulim prepaid plan to try t-mobile in Northeast area. My canadian friend needed US phone for a week. I must admit t-mo has very solid coverage here. I plan to wait till my contract with ATT is over and jump with t-mo. May be by that time iphones be available in t-mo. In my place I have more bars with t-mo compare to ATT. T-mo has faster internet here, but ATT has LTE in Boston. The only thing I'm doing m.biking and want to chack t-mo in parks/woods next summer. I need a phone for emergency.
VZW is not a choice for me since they have 0 coverage in my 2nd office.
Sprint and MetroPSC :-) ?
I had Tmobile when I lived in the states. Great signal ALMOST everywhere. But if you're looking for a phone for emergencies, unless Tmo roaming on ATT starts soon, I'd consider keeping a cheap prepaid phone... SpeakOut perhaps... Just in case.
Hard to answer without knowing where in the Northeast you're referring to...
In the Boston area, T-Mobile has excellent coverage.
As to metroPCS, they are only located in some major metropolitan areas (Boston is one of them), but when traveling down to Connecticut, it will roam on Sprint.
Where there is neither a Sprint nor metroPCS signal, metroPCS will roam on Verizon, but at a cost of .19/minute for voice calls, no data, but text messages are free.
I second t-mobile. They have great coverage around Massachusetts and Connecticut and data speeds are comparable to my 4G LTE phone on Verizon, even though t-mobile still has A LOT of edge coverage.
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More HSPA coverage is/should be the goal in 2012. It was expanding in 2011 but with LTE not on the horizon really, that's where the network development should go. Dual Cell HSPA+ has excellent speed potential if the cell site has enough backhaul to support full speeds on each sector.
Hard to answer without knowing where in the Northeast you're referring to...
In the Boston area, T-Mobile has excellent coverage.
As to metroPCS, they are only located in some major metropolitan areas (Boston is one of them), but when traveling down to Connecticut, it will roam on Sprint.
Where there is neither a Sprint nor metroPCS signal, metroPCS will roam on Verizon, but at a cost of .19/minute for voice calls, no data, but text messages are free.
Hope this helps.
Btw, metro has native coverage in Sprigfield and Worcester, MA, down I-91 in to CT is native metro coverage also.
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Btw, metro has native coverage in Sprigfield and Worcester, MA, down I-91 in to CT is native metro coverage also.
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That particular native network you are referring to, is a network that metroPCS acquired shortly after they introduced service in the Boston area. It had previously been owned by a smaller wireless company that had no retail outlets in the area.
What I was referring to by going down into Connecticut, was going down I-395. Once a mile past the MA/CT border, metroPCS picks up Sprint.
As to T-Mobile coverage, they have coverage going down I-395. In the past (a year ago) a TracFone on T-Mobile would sometimes flip from EDGE to GPRS on the data side and there had been a couple of brief dead zones along the way. Perhaps by now, those small gaps have been filled in.
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