Verizon Wireless I thought this would never happen…

but a couple of weeks ago we switched from AT&T to Verizon Wireless. The primary reason for this was the spotty AT&T coverage at a couple of friends places that I frequent, one of my wife's favorite nearby restaurants and completely non-existent coverage in the place we most often go skiing to. In addition to a better coverage I was pleasantly surprised to find out that VZW supported several of the advanced services (HD Voice equivalent, built-in visual voicemail) on my Nexus 6P. The only one it did not was wireless calling (AT&T supports none of these). Of course since then I was fortunate enough to have my Nexus replaced with a Pixel XL so now all three of them are supported. About the only thing that I discovered so far that was easier to do on AT&T is call forwarding. Oh, and I keep running the SpeedTest and marveling at how often I see double-digits in the results (getting over 5-6 was a great accomplishment on AT&T). So aside from a minor bump in the price I've not seen any major drawbacks so far.

 

@palandri I may be confusing things but I think I read somewhere about the high buildings problems being inherent to CDMA. In my 2 weeks on VZW I've seen it drop to the CDMA once in one of the AT&T dead spots, the rest of the time it was LTE. I believe the LTE should be functioning the same between VZW & AT&T

@charlyee, I did not I'm still a DirecTV subscriber so it's not like I'm a public enemy #1 anyway

To both of you -- my best friend who lives very close and frequents the same spots I do has been with VZW for years and aside from one episode 10+ years ago in the town of Inverness I could never find a spot where my signal would be better than his

 

So far some improvements have been noticed. Sometimes minor, but still.

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