which co. for Western MA and Cape Cod?

Well since Evil AT&TWireless is no longer a company, how are things with Cingular for you? If you don't like them try Evil Verizon or try Sprint.

 

Helpful site for New England coverage

http://www.cellguru.net/

 

Cingular and Verizon are the top 2 providers in MA. Looking at the coverage maps (and discussions over the past few years), the overall edge goes to Cingular in western MA. All the providers are fine in the urban areas. You should be able to use Cingular towers on your AT&T phone. Do you have problems with service now?

I can't say much about Cape Cod, except there are issues because of the NIMBYs (who don't want a cell tower near them). I don't recall hearing who is better there.

 

I vacation on the Cape every summer for a week or two and I've used Nextel and Cingular up there. Nextel was spotty but Cingular worked great except on the beaches.

 

What phone were you using with AT&T? If it was one of their original GSM phones without 850 Mhz, you have been missing out on a lot of Cingular's great coverage throughout MA.

 

Funny that you mentioned Sprint since they would just roam on Verizon in that area.

 

Travel to all aspects of the Cape a lot and through western MA, Verizon has never failed me. Great coverage, never searching.

 

VZW has no service in Great Barrington, MA. Cingular does have service there (all I can use on Cingular is analog). That's the first civilized place I've been that Verizon has let me down as an Alltel roamer.

royc

 

Well that was just in case the OP didn't want to go with the other Evil wireless provider.

 

I had AT&T (GSM) for about a year and found it worked very well all around western mass. Including Northampton, Amherst, Hadley, Chicopee, Westfield. I have not used it much down the cape tho. In Rhode Island it worked pretty well.

I just migrated my line to Cingular and it still works really good!

I wonder if you had AT&T TDMA service.

 

What area do you mean. Sprint rarely roams around here (wmass) two of my friends have Sprint, and one of them sells it. Not tooo bad, but not great.

 

Since you are leaving ATT (now Cingular) that leaves Sprint or Verizon as options. Sprint has excellent coverage in Chatham; and Western MA has coverage either thru Sprint's own network, or in more rural areas thru roaming agreements. see http://www1.sprintpcs.com/explore/c...USER<>ATR_cartState=group&bmUID=1108535453049

Sprint's America Roaming option for $5/mo allows you to use up to 50% of your minutes roaming without incurring extra roaming charges. (If you do get roaming charge, it is 0.50/min compared to Verizon 0.69/min)