So far coverage has been pretty good. Coverage at the Universal Orlando Resort has been awesome! I noticed several microcells in both parks last time, apparently they are Sprint. I got coverage on every ride so far, even deep inside concrete. I know that VZ, Att (my T-Mo phone at the time showed no networks), and T-Mobile do not work in those places. There are microcells on top of the Back to the Future ride, I think one across the water from it near Jaws (could be their radio's though) and I forget where I saw the one in Islands of Adventure (Jurassic Park?). I'm gonna look at apartments tomorrow, so we'll see how Sprint works across the city. Edited to add: I've noticed a lot of people here use Sprint. Very odd, I'm used to seeing 75% Verizon users.
Verizon sucks. If Sprint is weak in an area--Verizon is worse. I dunno how Cingular is, I just know if my T-Mobile phone was dead, it usually had Cingular coverage on emergency only. I looked at one apartment today and really liked it. Sprint coverage was horrible. Verizon was non-existant. Figures. However, I am taking a tour of the property--there is a HUGE tower like 1/4 of a mile away. No excuse for the bad coverage. However....Sprint is slated to add on there In fact, there are 5 new towers coming online in the metro east section of the town.
I really find it amazing to hear people complain about coverage in this part of Florida. Especially with Verizon or AT&T, but at least your Sprint is good to go for you, and even more so when they add to the tower by the apartment your looking at. I guess your able to force roam on Alltel if needed, which should have excellent coverage down there, my parents never had a problem when in Orlando.
Wow, I did not know that Verizon sucked that bad down there. I guess you won't be using your free roaming much these days, lol. I'm glad to hear that Sprint is adding to the tower nearby soon; maybe Verizon is too.
I don't use Verizon roaming at home either. Sprint's better than Verizon pretty everywhere, or at least usable. Only Bethany Beach do I know I better just switch on over to Sprint. Used to be a black hole with everyone except T-Mobile (microcells are nice). Now, the town has opened a water tower for use, and Sprint just hasn't jumped on it yet.
I actually had a problem with my Sprint phone today, going up a hill, on the phone the call was garbled & had a lot of noise to it, then it dropped the call at the top of the hill. I had a decent signal for most of the call & never had a problem with calls on my AT&T phone on this road. It started to deflate my opinon of Sprint some. Can't wait to see how it is in DE tomorrow.
Tom, your opinion of Sprint deflated because it dropped a call on a road where AT&T is fine? Come on now. You may have had a bad handoff or pilor pollution or something, or maybe Sprint does not fare well in that one area. Or there may have been a network problem.
I kind of figured it was pilot pollution or something like that & was pretty much joking on my comment. I have only had 2-3 problem area's so far & it's close to AT&T when it comes to network concerns. Actually around me I really don't have any problems with coverage, but sometimes outside my area it's about the same. In DE I had equal coverage with both and had a problem at the track with a call failed & figured it was when they announced the race was cancelled & all the people were making calls & I had a garbbled call at the 1 hotel in Newark where I had a -63 db reading, but moved 10' and it was fine. I had no problems with the iDEN and minor garbled calls with CDMA side in the Newark area, but otherwise it was good. I am still trying to figure out which would be the better way to go if I decide to leave AT&T, but with the new shared SMS plan coming out I don't think I will be leaving.
Yes, I live in the Orlando Metropolitan Area (Seminole County to be exact). Verizon does royaly stink. But for as bad as VZW is AT&T is worse. Both have dropped calls, garbled voice, etc, etc. I will be switching to Sprint this month - and yes Sprint is probably best either that or Nextel in our area.
