so no mobile near Mobile...<br><br>Seems so....Alabama-ish...<br><br>oh. crap. im in jawja.....<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:37 PM, drifter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drifter@oppositelock.org">drifter@oppositelock.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">I can report that T-mobile doesn't work at all along the Gulf coast<br>
south of Mobile. Ala.<br>
<br>
Sean<br>
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On Thursday 15 July 2010 15:54:23 Michael B. Trausch wrote:<br>
> On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 14:28 -0400, Greg Clifton wrote:<br>
> > I am considering going GSM, however, the big V has me by the short<br>
> > hairs, or at least the wallet on 2 of 5 phones on the family plan till<br>
> > June '11 and till Aug '10 for another, so I can't afford to leave now.<br>
> > Furthermore, ATT coverage isn't all that great and Tmobile is worse (I<br>
> > live ~ 30mi S. of Atl). Maybe LTE which V & ATT are going to will<br>
> > solve that by 2013? I am leery of Sprint's Wimax service so I don't<br>
> > think that is a viable option for the next year or two at least.<br>
><br>
> I haven't been south of Atlanta much, but I can say that my T-Mobile<br>
> service has been pretty reliable everywhere that I have been from<br>
> Atlanta metro to Detroit, MI, both on and off the beaten path, so to<br>
> speak. There is one place in Ohio where T-Mobile doesn't cover that I<br>
> have been---but then again, there is *no* cell phone coverage there<br>
> whatsoever. I can about 10% of the time in that one particular location<br>
> get a local GSM carrier. Fortunately for me, roaming is free on our<br>
> plan.*<br>
><br>
> --- Mike<br>
><br>
> * Well, at least with the plan that I had at the time, it was. We've<br>
> since switched to the "Even More Plus" contract-less and subsidy-free<br>
> plan. I haven't actually checked the details on roaming on that plan,<br>
> since I roam almost never.<br>
><br>
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