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Re: PagePlus, the Prepaid Service Few People Know About even though
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| Godzilla Pimp wrote:
> Yes indeed. PP is the best prepaid service out there for anyone in native
> Verizon territory. An old and reliable company. You can use any Verizon,
> Alltel and some Amp'd phones or buy a shiny new INpulse phone at Walmart or
> Target. The other good alternative for folks in the central US where native
> Verizon coverage is often lacking is Tmo2go. Check out the people who know
> instead of posting speculative crap.
T-Mobile has very spotty coverage in the western region, so they're not
a good choice for prepaid (or postpaid) out here. I've used them with no
problem on the east coast. It's not that they don't want to improve
their coverage, it's that to do so means placing towers in places where
they can't get zoning approval for towers. It's not like satellite
dishes where the FCC prohibits any zoning ordinances from preventing
satellite receivers.
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> But are the TM phones quad-band? To be fully fair to GSM and TM in the
> lack of coverage areas, if the phone can't talk on 850 and/or 1900, then
> coverage may be lacking. Leaving one of those bands out and the
> roaming/coverage claim is only half true (roaming may occur on the other
> band, but the phone doesn't pick it up).
You can use a quad band phone, or a 850/1900. I think all the T-Mobile
phones are 850/1900 or quad band these days (or tri-band with only the
1800 MHz non-U.S. band, which is essentially worthless outside the U.S.).
The issue is more that they don't allow the same amount of roaming onto
other carriers on the prepaid as they do on postpaid.
Even on postpaid, TM's roaming is limited when they have a network in
the area, even if they have no coverage in a specific location. I.e.,
the TM map for my house shows one bar (the reality is that it's very
difficult to make a connection).
At least in this area, AT&T customers can use the 1900 MHz T-Mobile
network, for now anyway (AT&T sold it to T-Mobile after Cingular
acquired AT&T wireless and got the more desirable 800 MHz spectrum). I
have an old Motorola tri-band GSM (900/1800/1900) and it works with a
Cingular SIM card, at least where T-Mobile has coverage.
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