[Newlug] Newlug Digest, Vol 53, Issue 18

[Don Funkhouser]

Yes,  The maps in the Verizon ads are very accurate, but basically ANY 
reasonably recent, fully functional, and well made CDMA phone from ANY CDMA 
carrier with the exception of Sprint and Nextel based carriers will work in 
all of those areas, not just Verizon's.  That's the only misleading part of 
their ads.   AT&T's ads on the other hand are completely misleading.

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From: "Tom Scott" <telecomtom at vedatel.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 9:49 AM
To: "Newlug List" <newlug at newlug.org>
Subject: Re: [Newlug] Newlug Digest, Vol 53, Issue 18

> well maybe ATT might be guilty of a little white lie every once in a 
> while.
>
> but seriously, i wonder, if that Verizon commercial where they show how 
> much
> bigger the Verizon coverage is as compared to ATT, if it's true?
>
> anyways, i want to thank the responders for, well, responding to my 
> question
> about linux phones. i can't afford the service fees (those data packages 
> are
> expensive!), but it's good to know the options in case i win the lottery.
>
> -*- *TT*
> "Vedatel--In Support of Open Networks"*
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Bernard Starzewski <bernard_starzewski at yahoo.com>
> Date: Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [Newlug] Newlug Digest, Vol 53, Issue 18
> To: newlug at newlug.org
>
>
> AT&T misrepresents stuff?
> Say it aint so!
>
> AT&T = 2nd worst company in the world... After BP.
>
> --- On Tue, 6/29/10, Don Funkhouser <cee_64 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Don Funkhouser <cee_64 at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Newlug] Newlug Digest, Vol 53, Issue 18
>> To: newlug at newlug.org
>> Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 3:03 PM
>> The problem isn't with Verizon, but
>> with Apple.  Verizon uses CDMA while the only iPhones
>> use GSM which are not compatible.  Until Apple releases
>> a CDMA version of the iPhone you can only use one on
>> AT&T and if you hack it T-Moble (at least here in the
>> USA).  The USA's (and most of North America's) cellular
>> service backbone is based on CDMA unlike Europe and Asia
>> which is built upon GSM.  GSM needs it’s towers
>> closer together than CDMA which is why Verizon works so much
>> better over here than GSM does unless you are ina large
>> metropolitan area like Chicago, New York, etc.  While
>> AT&T claims coverage to a large segment of the
>> population that is only due to the coverage of cities.
>> Verizon covers even more of the population and 10 times the
>> actual coverage area than AT&T does.  AT&T
>> grossly misrepresents it's coverage.
>>
>> Don
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Brad Bingham" <bradb at advocap.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 1:29 PM
>> To: <newlug at newlug.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Newlug] Newlug Digest, Vol 53, Issue 18
>>
>> > Hi group,
>> >
>> > I just wanted to chime in on the discussion of
>> phones.  I have been a Verizon
>> > customer for a very long time having never had any
>> problems with coverage.
>> > I've traveled for business all over the country and
>> have family in up the
>> > mountains of the mountain west and my calls have
>> always been clear as a bell
>> > and never get dropped.
>> >
>> > I do have a friend however, she uses AT&T and her
>> calls sometimes are jumpled
>> > up requiring a recall for a different line. Her call
>> are often dropped in the
>> > middle of our conversations all the time.
>> >
>> > I was speaking with the Apple people thinking of
>> getting a I-Phone, since I
>> > had heard that Verizon and Apple were in negations on
>> a new joint agreement
>> > allowing use of the with the I-Phone and I-Pad.
>> The sales rep. I spoke with
>> > told me those were just rumors and would require
>> switching to AT&T for my
>> > phone service if I wanted to use a I-Phone, giving me
>> some technical hooey
>> > about how Verizon was to slow and its networks
>> outdated. I rather doubt it.
>> >
>> > That being said, I think Android is what direction I'm
>> considering for my
>> > next phone since I can keep Verizon.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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