[ale] droid bricks if mod'ed

drifter drifter at oppositelock.org
Thu Jul 15 17:12:41 EDT 2010


Well, not exactly. :)

Mobile is more than 20 miles inland from the Gulf -- at the top of Mobile 
Bay.  T-Mobile has service in Mobile and along the top of the bay, but by 
the time you have driven 5 miles south of Mobile (on either side of the 
bay) your T-mobile phone has dropped service.

Sean
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On Thursday 15 July 2010 16:53:18 Pete Hardie wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 16:37, drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:
> > I can report that T-mobile doesn't work at all along the Gulf coast
> > south of Mobile. Ala.
> 
> As I recall, that's about 120 yards of sand, then the Gulf.....:)
> 
> > Sean
> > -----------------------------------
> >
> > On Thursday 15 July 2010 15:54:23 Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 14:28 -0400, Greg Clifton wrote:
> >> > I am considering going GSM, however, the big V has me by the short
> >> > hairs, or at least the wallet on 2 of 5 phones on the family plan
> >> > till June '11 and till Aug '10 for another, so I can't afford to
> >> > leave now. Furthermore, ATT coverage isn't all that great and
> >> > Tmobile is worse (I live ~ 30mi S. of Atl). Maybe LTE which V & ATT
> >> > are going to will solve that by 2013? I am leery of Sprint's Wimax
> >> > service so I don't think that is a viable option for the next year
> >> > or two at least.
> >>
> >> I haven't been south of Atlanta much, but I can say that my T-Mobile
> >> service has been pretty reliable everywhere that I have been from
> >> Atlanta metro to Detroit, MI, both on and off the beaten path, so to
> >> speak.  There is one place in Ohio where T-Mobile doesn't cover that
> >> I have been---but then again, there is *no* cell phone coverage there
> >> whatsoever.  I can about 10% of the time in that one particular
> >> location get a local GSM carrier.  Fortunately for me, roaming is
> >> free on our plan.*
> >>
> >>       --- Mike
> >>
> >> * Well, at least with the plan that I had at the time, it was.  We've
> >> since switched to the "Even More Plus" contract-less and subsidy-free
> >> plan.  I haven't actually checked the details on roaming on that
> >> plan, since I roam almost never.
> >>
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