[pct-l] cell coverage and wi-fi

[Halfmile]

Salix & Co

A wi-fi report sounds like a good idea, I will create one soon. If any
2008 hikers have wi-fi information send it to me.

I am not sure I would call Verizon useless, I think many hikers use
them and are happy with them. I had more ATT hikers sending me cell
phone reports so that may be one reason why they look better in the
cell phone reports at http://pctmap.net/cell/index.html

I have been happy with my ATT service. One annoying place for ATT
users is Warner Springs were Verizon works but ATT does not. Other
than there ATT has been as good or better than Verizon in most areas,
but truthfully I am not sure it's a huge difference between them.

I did do some testing with Blackberry's back in 2007 and GSM
Blackberry's (ATT) had much better battery life than CDMA Blackberry's
(Verizon) on a weekend PCT hike. I had read that CDMA phones had poor
battery life in area with fringe cell phone reception and GSM phone's
battery life are not effected as much. Apparently this is true (or was
back in 2007, anyway).

For me ATT was cheaper (I switched from Verizon about 2 years ago) and
Verizon does something to the phones they sell that prevents
non-Verizon programs from using the GPS in the phone and ATT had
better battery life. I have not regretted my move to ATT.

-Halfmile


On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 7:22 AM, d hans <dhonah775 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hey Halfmile (and anyone else) -
>
> I was wondering if anyone can say anything about wi-fi (not hardline) service (in towns, libraries, hotel parking lots, etc.), particularly from Campo to Kennedy Meadows. I checked out your cell phone coverage index and wondered if anyone would be interested in something similar regarding wi-fi.
>
> So Verizon cell phones are basically useless then, right? My contract is up in Feb and I was planning on canceling anyway... Figured pay phones and email would be it.
>
> Thanks y'all!!
> Salix & Co.
>
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