I, too have ATT, but have switched to GSM, and have no regrets (except
for signing a 2 year agreement with a company that is about to be sold).
The GSM coverage is, for now, useable only in the more metropolitan
areas. The normal digital coverage we all know and love will go the way
of the analog coverage of a few years ago, when my bag phone with the
roof antenna would reach out for many miles in some of the most remote
country in the West (I ran kitchens on forest fires for many years in
the 80's and 90's). The replacement GSM coverage will expand, but for
now we are all either using a dying system or a growing but incomplete
system. It's kind of like living with Microsoft.....
Bill
Ronald Olds wrote:
>The most important feature of a phone if you want to have full coverage
>is to be able to work on analog as well as digital. There are many areas
>of the country where there is no digital and even more with no GSM
>coverage. I travel all over the country mostly away from the big cities
>and have AT&T. There are few places I don't have coverage. I work with
>people who have all the other systems out there and my AT&T is by far
>the best. I am able to se my phone where many can't. I hope this is not
>lost when AT&T is sold.
>
>Ron Olds
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