Absolutely not true! Maybe you are confused about the actual release date of the PPC-6700. It did not come out until the end of 2005. We are in the Puget Sound region. I was an early adopter but did not get mine until I believe February or March 2006. We got impressive 3G performance through out our area from Olympia to Everett and in most places along the I-5 Corridor. 3G worked fine in the Portland- Vancouver area as well. And Sprint released the PPC-6700 not Verizon and initially Sprint had the more developed 3G network.
The fact is that 3G was only built out to 1% in 2005. . . just because you had part of that 1% where YOU were does not mean that 1% figure is wrong. We are talking coverage area here and the 3G coverage mostly was in city centers around the country at that point. Verizon was spending like crazy and invested over $3 billion in the next two years expanding their 3G coverage and then went on upgrading to 3.75G which everyone thinks is 4G but isn't. AT&T was way late to the game.
You are such a nitpicker. . . but not with facts, with anecdotal claims from your experience, not truths and evidence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_Corporation
When did I tell you that I purchased the phone in question. Early 2006. So according to you they went from 1% in December of 2005 to coverage for 190 million people in 2006. Swordmaker now it is your turn to think critically about something... does that seem realistic? And why do you keep referring to Verizon when I told you when the phone we are wasting our time discussing was on the Sprint network. They do have reciprocal roaming agreements, but the last time I checked they were still separate companies.