Would a newer SIM card help me?

[veriztd]

I am guessing it means "Bring Your Own Device", as in someone who buys a phone from a source outside of At&t sales channels and activates it on the At&t network. Most folks who don't already have an active account would need a new SIM in that example.

[joako]

I doubt it. Crowded area is going to have reception issues unless it was properly engineered. Even then I was at a non-playoff basketball game not too long ago and there was great reception, but data access was problematic. Like 5 minutes to load a website after having to retry multiple times.

[Redking117]

Well, my SIM is only 2 months old. What is a BYOD SIM?

Straight Talk is prepaid and their sims use t-mobile or AT&T service


It's essentially the exact same service as AT&T with some limitations

BYOD means bring your own device

I had bought an E71 and swapped the sim out to an android but i'm going legit to see if it solves the edge problem i wasnt having before..

[GSMinCT]

I doubt it. Crowded area is going to have reception issues unless it was properly engineered. Even then I was at a non-playoff basketball game not too long ago and there was great reception, but data access was problematic. Like 5 minutes to load a website after having to retry multiple times.

Try Midtown Manhattan. The half of the time that you're lucky and getting data, it's running at <150kbps. What I don't understand is why it's so bad. I would think that because it's so bad, people down there would switch to Verizon, and as a result, the network would get better.