Re: Does anyone carry a Verizon phone AND an Iphone?

SMS wrote:

A few years ago I went out to Everglades National Park, the entrance on U.S. 41 (Tamiami Trail) which is a major cross-Florida highway. There was only AMPS in the park, and amusingly it was on AT&T which owns both the A&B side 800 MHz in south Florida. I could make and receive calls on AT&T but AT&T and Cingular subscribers had no coverage (well if they had a really old GAIT (AMPS/TDMA/GSM) phone maybe they did). There is no GSM coverage at all along 41, though the AT&T coverage viewer proclaims "moderate coverage" (T-Mobile shows no coverage at all). Verizon now has full digital coverage right along the road, but that 1900 MHz coverage will not extend very far into the park.

Oh and Sprint shows roaming coverage identical to the Verizon native coverage.

One more reason that GSM users need to at least carry a glove-box CDMA phone on PagePlus when traveling.
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