Take a look at the Verizon, At&T and T-Mobile coverage maps in New Hampshire. Verizon is very good in almost all of the state. AT&T has some very large areas of no coverage and T-Mobile is worse yet.
Pretty much any carrier is good on the highways and in the cities. When you get to Center Barnstead, things change. In my area, the wireless carriers won’t sell to people who don’t live in their coverage area. I guess they don’t want to pay roaming charges for calls made from the home area.
I still think Apple is making a mistake by not being available on the national network with the best coverage.
In my area, the wireless carriers won’t sell to people who don’t live in their coverage area. I guess they don’t want to pay roaming charges for calls made from the home area.
When I first got the iPhone I was wondering about that with AT&T. I checked and asked about that, because I was going to be out of my home area for much longer periods of time than I was in it, thereby being a majority of the time away.
They told me that it didn't make any difference to them because the basic plan included national roaming and so they didn't care. Of course, that was from a couple of different customer support people and may not have represented the company's policy, but that's what they told me, so that's what I'm going by.
I still think Apple is making a mistake by not being available on the national network with the best coverage.
Well, I find it hard to disagree with Apple's choice (if it did have a choice, as I'm not sure). I understand that Verizon did not want to accomodate Apple in making the changes to their network that Apple required for this iPhone. But, AT&T did agree to make the necessary changes to their network.
So, maybe this has more to do with Verizon not realizing what it could have had, at the time it had a choice in the matter... LOL...
But, really, to say that Apple did not choose the right network when that network (the GSM network) handles 80% of all the world's mobile traffic -- that's really going the "wrong way"... :-)
I think, if you're a company bringing out a phone for a new service (like the iPhone) and you choose to reach 80% of the world's mobile network (through GSM) -- then you've made the right decision...