Verizon in MS...

[Roy Munson.sixpack]

Yes, I know it has been asked 1000 times. About to make my company get me off of Sprint because it doesnt work worth a **** here. I am in MS mostly but also travel all over. Do I do Verizon/Iphone or CSpire/Iphone? Short and sweet is fine...

 

[BehrDawg]

Where do you travel? If it is far off...stay the 17 away from CSpire. If it is within their calling areas, their service is pretty good. I'm on AT&T, strictly because I use data while on conference calls.

 

[Roy Munson.sixpack]

in MS, AL, TN, FL, GA, LA and AR. Im about to say 17 it and just go with Verizon...

 

[BehrDawg]

And traveled, it was a nightmare. I had a blackberry and every time I would go to FL, NYC, Raleigh, Chicago, and Texas the service was ****. I would not receive a single phone call, but customers blew up my voicemail. I would call and throw a fit about it. Every time I called, they wanted me to text some weird code to a weird number and then reboot my phone. I finally got fed up and ditched them. Usually, when I went to a store the morons working in there had no idea what to do. They literally told me to call the service line. Just my experience.

 

[dawgstudent]

if more than 50% of your activity is outside their coverage area - you would get a letter from them. If it continued - your service would be stopped or something like that.

Since Verizon uses CellSouth/Cspire's towers anyway - I would use Verizon.

 

[BehrDawg]

Wow.

 

[FlabLoser]

At one time, I know for a fact Verizon and Cellular South had reciprocal roaming agreements (use each other's towers). That was about 5 years go. Probably still true.

They were working on an similar arrangement with Sprint. But Sprint had some really ridiculous clauses in the contract that they wanted.

 

[BehrDawg]

Thats crazy. I wonder what would be the reasoning behind doing that? Money? Bogging down the network? Both?

 

[msudeltadawg1971]

I was with cellular south, changed jobs that requires me to travel LA, AR, MS, AL, GA, Fl and carolinas. Got a letter from CS saying they would start charging me for roaming fees. Went to Verizon and haven't missed a beat.

 

[Dawgbite]

I have AT&T and my wife has Verizon[/b], the only place I have service and she doesn't is across northern Alabama but she has service ALOT of places that I don't, LIKE MY HOUSE, so i am switching to Verizon just as soon as they get more iPhone in stock.

 

[Roy Munson.sixpack]

and with the other comments about cspire charging you if you roam a lot, verizon it is...

Now, how long am i going to have to wait on an iphone and how much data or whatever that **** is do i need to get? I use my phone a good bit but as you can tell im not terribly sophisticated with these phones. i would imagine that would probably change if i did iphone

 

[olddawgfan]

Our company uses it worldwide where it is available. Other than on Highway 82 east between the state line and Reform, AL and way out in the boondocks, it's good coverage most of the time. I own one of their MIFI devices and can pretty much surf the net when someone else is driving with my IPAD anywhere I travel in Mississippi on a major highway.

 

[dawgstudent]

Text is $20

2 GB of data which should be fine is $30

Sounds like you will talke a lot for work so your total bill will be $120 + tax with Verizon.

http://www.verizonwireles...m/b2c/plans/?page=single

 

[Seinfeld]

You have to go to Apple.com at 9PM and reserve one for pickup the next day. They go pretty quickly, though, so you have to be online right at 9.

If you don't live near an Apple store, I would just order one online and have it shipped to you. The website claims 1-2 weeks which does suck, but I don't think they'll be stocked in cell phone stores for awhile still. The people I talked to last week at AT&T and Verizon each said that they have no idea when they'll have more inventory.

 

[FlabLoser]

CS being able to use Verizon towers = CS can sell national service to its customers

Verizon being able to use CS towers = Verizon doesn't have to spend any money building a network in MS. And Verizon customers in MS get the same good coverage that CS customers get in MS.

Honestly, I am surprised CS hasn't been bought out.

 

[BehrDawg]

They are saying it will take 21-28 days. Which means probably 2 weeks. Apple always over estimates, intentionally.

 

[jbone.sixpack]

for a little over a year now. As far as Mississippi coverage, I travel all over the state and the service is better than what ive had with both at&t and cellsouth. The only problems ive had with service have been extended spots on the Trace (which I try to avoid anyway).

 

[weblow]

Cellsouth has the same dead spots on the trace. I have a company phone with Verizon and a personal phone with Cellular South and the coverage is identical.

Verizon will try to tell you that they have better coverage or that they are not using Cellular South's towers and that is just ********. Verizon gets to use Cellular South's towers where they do not have their own and cell south gets to roam off of Verizon towers out of the call area.

 

[was21]

with AT&T coming in dead last. I use Verizon for cell but AT&T for internet...can't beat it for internet.

 

[GloryDawg]

Cspire is who I use and i am as happy as I can be.

 

[anon1787432961]

cspire iphone if you want to use your phone in your house, all around MS, at MSU. Both cspire and verizon iPhone 4s works worldwide, roams on same worldwide gsm networks that att uses outside the US. <div>
</div><div>if you do travel alot it depends on where you travel. verizon and everyone else has deadspots nationwide. att is the worst, but you didnt ask about them. verizon has plenty of deadspots in MS.</div><div>
</div><div>in my experience, verizon and cspire are the same outside of MS, really good in the northeast US, average everywhere else, except you pay $20 to $50 more per line to the verizon shareholders and the 1%'ers. </div><div>
</div><div>finally, no one does more in MS than cspire, and i guess that still means something to me.</div>