Best cell phone coverage?

[Cur_Dog]

Looks like ATT has it covered.

[Deer Tracks]

AT&T by far has the best coverage I have found.

Ditto. I had Cingular then went to Sprint and after a few years of Sprint, switched back to Cingular because their coverage in rural areas was just so much better than Sprint's.

[JimN]

AT&T, formerly Cingular, which was formerly Southwestern Bell Mobile System (remember them?) will probably have the best coverage in rural areas. They haev been around in teaxas much longer than anybody else. The coverage around San Antonio and rualral areas neer here greatly improved when they moved their corporate headquaters to town - imagine that.

The issue my be the phones. The rural areas do not have digital coverage yet so the newer phone may not work as well on the analog side.

[Seemore]

Buy a good phone, not the give away one. My 02

[Deer Tracks]

Buy a good phone, not the give away one. My 02

The cheap phone that came with my plan gets great reception. It's a nokia and they tell me that nokias are the best for that. My work phone was an LG...same service provider. I'd have both phones in the same place at the same time and my nokia would get better reception than the LG.

[BrianL]

There is a difference between some of the cheaper phones and expensive ones. I have not kept up with phones in the last year since I'm under contract. When I entered my contract, there was a difference. The free phone was only a tri band phone and did not have the ability to pick up 2 or 3 different type towers. Do your homework on the phones as well as the providers.

[Snakelover]

Keith, can't address the Alltel, but after years of Nokia (which I've always been very happy with), I am now using a Razr. My kids have them too. We all three love them. No complaints whatsoever.

[Archer156]

I have Alltel and never have a problem with it. It covers most of the areas of west texas and this phone I have is water proof a drop proof and I have great service to my lease where as I had non with my old phone service.

Kenny

[bentlimbs]

I switched to ATT after 22 yrs with Verizon, only reason was for coverage. Great coverage all over south tx and del rio area. If any of you condider upgrades or switch to new users, go to -Letstalk,com- and there you can sign on with any carrier and get free phones of your choice. I was amazed at the phones they offer plus they will set everything up for you with NO CHARGE....

[Tmag]

I have a Cingular and a Verizon. If one doesn't work the other usually will. My saying for Nextel, "The word Nextel means you need to go on down the road to the Next Telephone you see cause yours ain't never gonna work."

[Chew]

My verizon did not work at all in Brady. Nothing. "Searching for network". That was crazy. My son's cingular worked fine.

[Tmag]

My verizon did not work at all in Brady. Nothing. "Searching for network". That was crazy. My son's cingular worked fine.

Hey Chew, where'd you get the deer in your avatar?
Is it one of your boys?

[SaltwaterSlick]

I would definately stick with a quality brand phone. I have always tried to stick with Motorola, and still have one. Just got my son one of the new style Razr by Motorola, and it works really well too.

By the way, the oldest system is Verizon because they used to be GTE Mobilnet who was the first in the business. The two systems in the Houston area originally were GTE and Houston Cellular. GTE eventualy became Verizon (through other interim names) and Houston Cellular became Cingular/ATT. They both got started back in about 1980 or so. Before that, we had "radio phones" that went through radio repeaters. Johnson communications was the big one back then. We've come a long way since those days. My first Motorola was as big as a brief case and mounted in the trunk of my old Ford LTD when they were full sized cars (77 model). The wires ran to a hand set mounted on a pedistal in the front floorboard, and the aentena was up on the roof... don't care to go back to those days!

[Chew]

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[quicksilver437]

I have verizon and it seems to work pretty good with the coverage in East Texas, but there is a dead spot between lufkin and 69 for about 10 miles but thats the only part. I get about 1 to 2 bars on are deer lease and the verisons service is pretty good.