Wireless providers in NJ, Essex, Union, Hudson counties

welll verizon's bread and butter is nj,ny,pa....they are based out of nj....and i belive coverage wise they are the best...i can't speak for all the counties but i can tell you for bergen ,passaic, hudson, and middlesex....verizon kicks but....i know for a fact that nextel does not work in some parts of bergen county....and neither does t-mobile....but nextel does fairly well in NJ.....i would probably rate nextel second....in my opinion t-mobile comes in last because many of my friends have it and when we're in populated areas or on the main roads it works fine but when we go inside small towns they get no signal...atleast with sprint u still get analog...

 

as far as my experience verizon tends to lead the way in coverage in jersey. however if their tower is far away from your house and at7t is a block away. you guess whos going to work better. if your looking for overall coverage then verizon will be a safe bet

 

This is how I would rate them in terms of coverage.

1- Verizon
2- AT&T TDMA
3- Nextel
4- Sprint PCS
5- AT&T GSM
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10- Cingular/T-Mobile

Don't go by the number of licenses. That's the last indicator you should use. From first hand experience, I can tell you that Verizon and AT&T TDMA services are the best in this area.

 

probaby because in his area ATT TDMA = Cingular TDMA and vice versa.

The rating of
10- Cingular/T-Mobile

probably refers to cingulars GSM service.

 

THAt's right....I use Cingular TDMA and I was referring to Cingular GSM/T-Mobile in the listing since they share the GSM network here. I tried their GSM service a couple of weeks ago and I liked GSM sound and features, but the difference in coverage between TDMA vs GSM is like night and day. So going with GSM was really a frustrating experience to say the least. TDMA on AT&T and Cingular have the best coverage here next to Verizon.