| RHinNC 2006-12-10, 3:33 pm |
| It really matters where and how you use your phone. Most of my phone service
is done within 20 miles of my home. There is a Sprint tower within 1/4 mile
from my house. I have full EVDO service and it works very well, for me and
has for the past 7 years.
Plus the fact that my family in California, Washington State, West Virginia,
and Massachusetts all use Sprint. Sort of a no-brainer.
When they do these surveys they are bound to be wild variances. No one
phone/service will do everything for everybody.
"SMS" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
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> The January 2007 Consumer Reports has their annual survey of cellular
> phone service out. They surveyed about 43,000 cellular subscribers and
> rate the carriers in 20 metropolitan areas on metrics of coverage, network
> congestion, dropped calls, and static.
>
> As in previous years, Verizon is the top carrier in most metro areas, but
> T-Mobile and Alltel also did well in many areas.
>
> The most amusing part of the story is the sidebar about Cingular's claim
> of "fewest dropped calls." Consumer Reports states: "our own surveys have
> found Cingular to be only about average when it comes to dropped calls and
> one of the poorer performers in terms of overall satisfaction."
>
> This annual survey is statistically the most accurate survey of wireless
> carriers, though J.D. Power's survey of about 24,000 users has a similarly
> small margin of errer. JD Power reached essentially the same conclusions
> as Consumer Reports, with Verizon and T-Mobile leading in all regions.
>
> The metro areas where Verizon had a significant lead over Cingular (8 or
> more points) were Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Phoenix, San Diego, San
> Francisco, Tampa, and Washington D.C..
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