OK, I have T-Mobile, I sell Verizon.

I can tell you of T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon T-Mobile is the only on to get signal at my parents house in the middle of no where on Lake Superior an hour north of Duluth. But Verizon is the only one that gets signal in the town by their house.

Verizon doesn't have unlimited txt (yet) but the have unlimited IN TXT/PIX/FLX on plans ranging from $10-$20 per month and 500-2500 out msgs respectively. Right now T-Mo's unlimited text is $14.99 per month.

I honestly don't know if I get charged for roaming on T-Mo but I know VZW doesn't. VZW has other features that T-Mo doesn't (VCast, Music Store, VZ Navigator {on select phones) but if you don't plan to use them that doesn't matter.

I would suggest...
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T-mo's coverage is weak in comparasion to VZW. You should listen to people that are telling you T-mo's coverage is poor because i'm assuming they use it in the same area you would. The CDMA carriers seem to have much better coverage in most areas, but T-mo is normally the cheapest (because they have to be).

Give T-Mobile a try. Use the 14 day trial period, to see for yourself. As others have said, T-Mobile has alot of roaming agreements in MN, with their 850MHz roaming agreements there.

Here:
http://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/?class=coverage »

Use that to check your coverage. But, still give the 14 day trial period a chance to if T-Mobile works where u go.

i wouldnt say their coverage is very bad, but it needs to drastically improve in order to gain more subscribers.

many of the other carriers need to improve their coverage anyway...

you could always try the trial policy to see if t-mobile is good for you and compare it to cingular, and whoever is better chose them.

Another good idea is to ask the people who live in your area what they use. Ask the people you talk to the most which carrier they have. Both VZW and TMO have free mobile to mobile minutes so if all your friends have VZW and you get TMO (or vice versa) they all get to talk to each other for free, and not you. If you're like my friends and it's a big mixed bag of all the carriers it's not such a big deal. I also live in the MPLS area, I have TMO, most of my friends, however, have VZW. I get a lot of dropped calls at my apt but thats about it. No one on VZW has ever had a call dropped at my apt.
Like everyone has said get one, take advantage of the trial period, if you don't like it switch.

Do not allow other people sway you one way or another. The facts allow you to make the correct decision and choose T-Mobile over other carriers. T-Mobile added over 506,000 Square miles of new coverage last year. Did any other carrier come close? NO! Also T-Mobile has sighed 850 roaming agreements with many other GSM carriers. MN was one of the largest benefactors. The agreements were with the regional carriers you know and a couple National carriers like Cingular. Cingular is used only when there are NO other options. Have you seen the new Handsets coming out? PEBL, T809, HTC SDA, HTC MDA, and a couple coming out soon. Not only are they nice looking, They work and do not get downgraded by reviews or replaced in 3 to 6 months sinc...
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