iphone/ATT use in Wi Northwoods

At&t won't be roaming to much more on Cellular One, since At&t just bought Dobson Cellular One, and maybe by the end of the year they just might have integrated the Cellular one network with At&t's, then you can get the iPhone w/o having to worry about roaming in Northwoods

I don't have any experience using At&t internationally.

Hope that helps you out

 

Lol, I think this is funny, on one hand I have experience internationally. At&t works fine in the countries that I have visited in Europe, Asia & South America. It is pretty expensive but text messaging is always an internative.

On the other hand, even though I am in WI, I have no experience in coverage in that area.

So, between our two posts it sounds like the OP will be fine with the iPhone at the end of the year.

 

What do you mean when you say that your coverage is iffy with your International SIM Card depending on what network you are connected to? Most carriers these days have roaming agreements with the same (in most countries ALL) carriers, so the phone will automatically pick the networks to use and you can manually change networks depending on who has the best service in your area.
I'm not sure what international SIM Card you are using, but I know of one that gives me pretty sweet international calling rates, Free Incoming calls in a lot of countries and an 800 number U.S. based callers can use if they don't want to call my European Cell Number. This is MUCH cheaper than using any U.S. GSM carrier overseas.
AceTelecomStore.com

 

Your best bet would be to talk to any neighbors you have that use Dobson, because minus any variation in phone quality, your experience should be identical to theirs.

 

I have a place 14 miles west of Land O Lakes. I have had no luck whatsoever with Cingular (now AT&T). Can usually get cell signal in the middle of our lake while on the pontoon boat. Sometimes while driving around. Usually what happens is that the system does not recognize my phone and actually I've had trouble in the past with my voicemail not even taking messages, just saying I'm not reachable. It's very very frustrating. I'm hoping the AT&T merger will help, although judging by the service last month nothing has changed. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news

 

Hello,
My family has been going to the Northwoods for years and many of us are in the sales field and travel frequently (mainly US). Some of us use AT&T (Cingular) and at our cabin on Stormy Lake (Conover, WI) we get limited service. If we stand in just the right place outside or in certain areas of the cabin we get ok service. We are considering putting in a boosting antenae to help. I know this doesn't help much but thought it was interesting how close you are to where we go. We seem to get better service when we get about 1/2 of the way to Eagle River.
Good luck

 

I live in North Of Boulder Junction , off of Hwy M , I can say that I have no issues using cellcom,
neighbor has AT&T and Verizon , they both don't seem to have great coverage in the area
sorry to give you bad news , good luck