[pct-l] Verizon coverage on trail/towns/etc

[Phil Newhouse]

Brian,

What would be your gadget of choice if you "walked" again this year?
Smartphone (model please)

phil

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Brian Lewis <brianle8 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ralph wrote: "I'm a verizon user, and my experience on the trail is that I
> do not get reception as well as ATT users."
>
> I suspect there's a little "grass is greener on the other side of the
> fence"
> aspect at work here.   As an ATT user last year, I was pretty conscious of
> places where Verizon worked better.   My suggestion would be to use either
> of those two carriers based on whatever other dynamics drive such a
> decision, such as phone offerings from each, contractual details, maybe
> what
> friends or family have, etc.
>
> Then hope that people you walk long stretches with have the other service!
> :-)
>
> Caveat: as Halfmile's cell phone reception info gets more and more
> complete,
> perhaps at some point a person could do a really detailed analysis to
> decide
> that one was in fact clearly better than another.  I've not seen data
> complete enough to make that call.    I do suggest and encourage people to
> take clear and careful notes of places they do or don't have coverage and
> email those to Halfmile at halfmile at pctmap.net
>
> halfmile at pctmap.net <%20halfmile at pctmap.net%20>
>
>
> Brian Lewis / Gadget '08
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