EVDO Now Up And Running In Western MD and Eastern Panhandle of WV
I would've posted this earlier had I not been in Myrtle Beach all week but it looks like as of around Tuesday, US Cellular EVDO 3G is now up and running in the majority of, if not all of, Mountain Maryland and Eastern West Virginia. Considering the fact that I have virtually no bars at my house and still pick up EVDO lets me know that they pretty much saturated the whole area. Now if only they'd build a tower nearby.
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Congrats! Enjoy it! We still don't have it in St. Louis... I'm jealous, and a bit bitter as well.
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sorry, but obviously you are not talking about US Cellular because I can tell you that USCC probably hadn't even dreamt of EVDO four years ago. Yes the majors carriers like Verizon and Sprint were rolling it out then but for us USCC customers, it's refreshing to finally see that "EV" on our phones. The fact that I live in the mountains keeps the majority of the nationwide carriers away for some reason. We do have a slight presence of Sprint in our area. However, they really are just experimenting in the area with their CDMA network, as they're slowing progressing away from the slight iDEN presence that they've had here for years. We do not have native Verizon or T-Mobile service, but we do have AT&T, which is quickly becoming just as po...
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Wow, you still don't have EVDO in St. Louis? Have you tried dialing *228 to update your roaming list / get any tower updates? But anyway, that's really surprising considering that the largest city in my area is Cumberland which has about 25,000 residents as opposed to your 350,000 people in St. Louis and nearly 3 million people in the metro area. I guess they just thought it would be easier since I'm sure there are less towers in my entire area than in St. Louis alone. Interesting... Keep us up to date!
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