Compare Sprint and Verizon Coverage Maps
If you go and compare the maps on the company websites Sprint has very little footprint across America, but a lot of roaming. And in most of those areas they roam on Sprint or another CDMA carrier US celluar or Alltel (which by the end of the year is Verizon). Now the reason that Sprint wants to cancel people who roam frequently is that those roaming agreements are more expensive then if you where making calls on there network. Unfortunately, the Sprint network is sparse compared to Verizon and they never fully developed their own network. That is one reason among many that there churn numbers are so high. Furthermore, when you look at the data coverage maps you find the same thing. Which means many of your advance services while roaming lik...
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If you go and compare the maps on the company websites Sprint has very little footprint across America, but a lot of roaming. And in most of those areas they roam on Sprint or another CDMA carrier US celluar or Alltel (which by the end of the year is Verizon). Now the reason that Sprint wants to cancel people who roam frequently is that those roaming agreements are more expensive then if you where making calls on there network. Unfortunately, the Sprint network is sparse compared to Verizon and they never fully developed their own network. That is one reason among many that there churn numbers are so high. Furthermore, when you look at the data coverage maps you find the same thing. Which means
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verizon has a great service because they make the customer pay out the rear for it... n&w starting at 9pm is just one example... but they need these prices to be high to pay for the network agreements that they have that that have a 2nd company show up on their phones as a verizon network... it gets complicated but the roaming network is counted as a native network because the company pays out the ass for it... anyway...
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Did you guys ever try to look at the Alltel map? It was recidulus it looked like they scanned an image and then only let out zoom into a 5 state area! 😳
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Actually verizon is a great business they know how to make money and they are profitibale quarter after quarter. They can charge what they do and not offer nights at 7 because they don't have to. Sprint does this and offers unlimited everything for 99 and yet they struggle and you can doubt it my man but looka t the facts, sprint is closing stores in fact one closed in my town. They are not making money and nextel killed them. Sprint has a huge clientel unfortunatly that do not pay their bills and that is one reason verizon has always had high deposits...too keep these people out. Its sad I know but I'm not being mean this is the truth.
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Well, I would very much beg to differ. I roam on Verizon like 60-70% of the time, and have yet to be terminated and have had my phone for 1 1/2 years. Every other person I know that has Verizon around me, hasn't been terminated yet either. Verizon is one of those carriers that just doesn't terminate because of roaming. And the phone's display does change, it says "Extended Network" and not Verizon.
And as for coverage, I would also beg to differ. Verizon trumps Sprint so bad when it comes to coverage. For example, here in Michigan, Sprint only covers the major cities and suburban areas and maybe a FEW rural areas. While Verizon covers almost every square inch of their licensed areas. And all you have to do their maps to get them to show y...
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And as for coverage, I would also beg to differ. Verizon trumps Sprint so bad when it comes to coverage. For example, here in Michigan, Sprint only covers the major cities and suburban areas and maybe a FEW rural areas. While Verizon covers almost every square inch of their licensed areas. And all you have to do their maps to get them to show y...
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I live in mid-michigan and I only know of 3 spots that I travel between Detroit and Grand Rapids, and Harrison and Lansing
Plus remember this?
http://tech.yahoo.com/blog/null/3554 »
Plus remember this?
http://tech.yahoo.com/blog/null/3554 »
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drake said:»
I live in mid-michigan and I only know of 3 spots that I travel between Detroit and Grand Rapids, and Harrison and Lansing
Plus remember this?
http://tech.yahoo.com/blog/null/3554
Yep. Like it or not, Verizon is in last place according to their own figures.
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jrfdsf2 said:drake said:»
I live in mid-michigan and I only know of 3 spots that I travel between Detroit and Grand Rapids, and Harrison and Lansing
Plus remember this?
http://tech.yahoo.com/blog/null/3554
Yep. Like it or not, Verizon is in last place according to their own figures.
This article is from '06. A lot can change in a couple of years. I don't disagree with what's being said, but I do wish you guys would back up claims with links to your sources. Preferably as recent as possible.
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evilhomer said:jrfdsf2 said:drake said:»
I live in mid-michigan and I only know of 3 spots that I travel between Detroit and Grand Rapids, and Harrison and Lansing
Plus remember this?
http://tech.yahoo.com/blog/null/3554
Yep. Like it or not, Verizon is in last place according to their own figures.
This article is from '06. A lot can change in a couple of years. I don't disagree with what's being said, but I do wish you guys would back up claims with links to your sources. Preferably as recent as possible.
https://www.phonescoop.com/carriers/forum.php?fm=m&f ... »
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Well I just bought a Sprint phone just to test out the signal in different areas around here, and I've been impressed with certain areas and disappointed with others. I've looked at my Verizon phone at the same time of looking at the Sprint phone and at no time did the Sprint phone ever have service when the Verizon phone didn't. Actually, my Verizon phone has service everywhere I go and the Sprint phone goes into roaming quite a bit.
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michael_herc said:
Well I just bought a Sprint phone just to test out the signal in different areas around here, and I've been impressed with certain areas and disappointed with others. I've looked at my Verizon phone at the same time of looking at the Sprint phone and at no time did the Sprint phone ever have service when the Verizon phone didn't. Actually, my Verizon phone has service everywhere I go and the Sprint phone goes into roaming quite a bit.
That's one area out of the entire United States.
Where I live, the opposite is true.
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And I think a lot of it is because Verizon operates in the cellular band in most places in Michigan and Sprint is all PCS, which doesn't go as far as a cellular signal.
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I think that number of subscribers or the actual performance of the network from one place to another is trivial. I would not get subscribe to VZW if it were weak in my area. Same said for Sprint. It doesn't matter it any of the services claim coverage to 100 billion if it doesn't somehow happen to reach me. Frankly, the coverage with most of the carrier is so close as well that it's almost a fluke not to have a signal on one carriers device and not the other in the same spot.
Nor do I think it much matters anymore how many subscribers that the claim to have because, frankly, the major carriers are so close in numbers that it doesn't matter. The fact that unlimited plans are becoming so common place (I believe I can credit Sprint for tha...
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Nor do I think it much matters anymore how many subscribers that the claim to have because, frankly, the major carriers are so close in numbers that it doesn't matter. The fact that unlimited plans are becoming so common place (I believe I can credit Sprint for tha...
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I would think Alltel more. The Sprint phones that I'm testing out either roam on Alltel or Thumb Cellular (local carrier that covers me).
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I'm not sure who this jrfdsf person is or where they get their info, but you need to do. A little more research. You my friend could not be farther from the truth if you tried.
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This info is from the websites of each carrier: Verizon- 260 million covered Sprint- 262 million T-Mobile- 268 million Sprint (Nextel)- 274 million AT&T- 273 million
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I think we know that is extremly unaccurate becuase I know yournot saying tmobile has better coverage than most. I mean come on....that's a joke and you know it. I think I've already said too much on that matter.
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reklisammy said:
I think we know that is extremly unaccurate becuase I know yournot saying tmobile has better coverage than most. I mean come on....that's a joke and you know it. I think I've already said too much on that matter.
http://search.sprint.com/inquiraapp/ui.jsp?ui_mode=a ... »
http://www.t-mobile.com/Company/CompanyInfo.aspx?tp= ... »
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Actually the only person with more customers than verizon is att. Where are you getting your numbers.
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reklisammy said:
Actually the only person with more customers than verizon is att. Where are you getting your numbers.
Those numbers reflect people covered by the networks, not necessarily customers.
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Actually, in response to an earlier thread, according to jd power and associates, Verizon has the biggest home network and sprint has the largest roaming network. In response to the post about verizon booting people for making 50% of their calls when roaming is bogus. I live in a small town in ohio which does not have Verizon coverage yet(Coming July 1st). But i have had Verizon for 3 years with a pittsburgh number and have yet to be approached by verizon because of my roaming.
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WirelessAdvocates328 said:
Actually, in response to an earlier thread, according to jd power and associates, Verizon has the biggest home network and sprint has the largest roaming network. In response to the post about verizon booting people for making 50% of their calls when roaming is bogus. I live in a small town in ohio which does not have Verizon coverage yet(Coming July 1st). But i have had Verizon for 3 years with a pittsburgh number and have yet to be approached by verizon because of my roaming.
The fact that you personally haven't been kicked off doesn't mean that NOBODY ever does. I've also heard of folks on Sprint who have roamed a lot and to date have never been booted, but that doesn't cha...
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Hey jrfdsf I actually found a site that talks about the carriers and there towers and their roaming agreements. First off verizon does not rank last and guess what...sprint actually includes guam in the survey. I mean I know they r a us owned island but come on...really! Ooo ya and in this alltell made claims of being the biggest network!!! Let's not all believe the first thing we hear and in reality if sprint did reach more people (which I doubt). Why don't they have more customers, or better coverage? Why also are they not winning jd power awards, please don't tell me you think jd is biased? Understand I am not bashing you or sprint but I am making a statement and I have years of experience in the business.
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Hmm the carriers make that stuff up Alltel claims to cover more area than anyone. So what the carriers say isn't worth that much since it isn't objective, but their own propaganda. It is most likely that non of those numbers are actually acurate but over inflated for each carrier. But this is a better indication of coverage according to phone scoop AT&T and Sprint have no coverage in Alaska. Guess who does the carrier with the best coverage Verizon!! Hope you don't need to use your phone ever in the nation's last frontier.
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californiabaseball11 said:
Hmm the carriers make that stuff up Alltel claims to cover more area than anyone. So what the carriers say isn't worth that much since it isn't objective, but their own propaganda. It is most likely that non of those numbers are actually acurate but over inflated for each carrier. But this is a better indication of coverage according to phone scoop AT&T and Sprint have no coverage in Alaska. Guess who does the carrier with the best coverage Verizon!! Hope you don't need to use your phone ever in the nation's last frontier.
My phone will work in Alaska. I probably will never go there though.
Interesting that you are now saying that all carriers inflate their claims, whereas bef...
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You just made my point for me thanks. You said, "Sprint's claim is based on network+roaming." Guess who they roam off of? Verizon, Alltel, and US Celluar, but mostly on Verizon hmm. I guess Sprint doesn't have the largest coverage after all. AT&T doesn't have the largest coverage either. And neither does Tmobile. Verizon has the most coverage and everyone knows it, even Sprint and all the other carriers.
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californiabaseball11 said:
You just made my point for me thanks. You said, "Sprint's claim is based on network+roaming." Guess who they roam off of? Verizon, Alltel, and US Celluar, but mostly on Verizon hmm. I guess Sprint doesn't have the largest coverage after all. AT&T doesn't have the largest coverage either. And neither does Tmobile. Verizon has the most coverage and everyone knows it, even Sprint and all the other carriers.
How did you get that from my post? 🤨
Verizon is in LAST PLACE in terms of native coverage. 265 million covered by Verizon is less than 268 million by T-Mobile, 273 million by AT&T, and 274 million (iDEN) by Sprint.
When you factor in native coverage + roaming, Verizon i...
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I did get my facts straight. First native means their own not roaming. So if Sprint has a ton of roaming agreements which they do then that is not native coverage. Second, counting IDEN even though Sprint owns Nextel is a joke. First, it is different technology. Second walkie talking is not the same as CDMA. Next to T Mobile Sprint has the smallest coverage of any major carrier!!! The fact is Verizon has the largest. Like I said earlier Sprint makes those numbers up they are not native coverage far from it. If it was native coverage they wouldn't need to roam!!!
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californiabaseball11 said:
I did get my facts straight. First native means their own not roaming. So if Sprint has a ton of roaming agreements which they do then that is not native coverage. Second, counting IDEN even though Sprint owns Nextel is a joke. First, it is different technology. Second walkie talking is not the same as CDMA. Next to T Mobile Sprint has the smallest coverage of any major carrier!!! The fact is Verizon has the largest. Like I said earlier Sprint makes those numbers up they are not native coverage far from it. If it was native coverage they wouldn't need to roam!!!
T-Mobile has MORE coverage than Verizon.
T-Mobile= 268 million covered.
Verizon= 265 million.
But you're right a...
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don't let jrfdsf fool you he knows sprint native foot print is sub par compared to verizon. who cares anyways because it's not helping them retain any customers, bottom line is in another 11 days sprint will have probably lost another million plus customers. how good can their network be?
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Cellenator said:
don't let jrfdsf fool you he knows sprint native foot print is sub par compared to verizon. who cares anyways because it's not helping them retain any customers, bottom line is in another 11 days sprint will have probably lost another million plus customers. how good can their network be?
jrfdsf isn't trying to fool anyone. The numbers speak for themselves. Last time I checked, 265 million people covered was less than 274 million.
Like it or not, Verizon is at the bottom of the barrel in terms of native coverage. That's one reason they are purchasing Alltel. Now that we live in the information age when facts such as these can be easily checked and compared, Verizon must maintain its rep...
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Square miles verizon by far has the biggest network, mute point anyways because by end of the year its game over in all categories. I'm laughing at how you love to cling to one stat, while you constantly Duck and weave the real stats! I can't wait for next month 🤣 🤣
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Cellenator said:
Square miles verizon by far has the biggest network, mute point anyways because by end of the year its game over in all categories. I'm laughing at how you love to cling to one stat, while you constantly Duck and weave the real stats! I can't wait for next month 🤣 🤣
I'm not the one ducking the issue, you are. The issue is COVERAGE, not customers.
You continue to insist that Verizon has the largest network when even they no longer claim that. Their own website disputes your belief. Case closed.
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Cellenator said:
yeah oh look i can roll my eyes too 🙄
Game over! haha
Good. Glad that it's over.
Now maybe I can spend time on more important things than babysitting you.
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Maybe we should talk about customers because Even if sprint had the largest coverage area, at the rate sprint/nextel are losing customers they they will have all that network for only jrfdsf!!!!
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Sprint can claim they reach that many people because they roam on other carriers that is not their native network but everyone elses. Go look at the Sprint coverage map outside of all the major cities it is all roaming. That isn't much of a network now is it. Go look at their broadband or 3G network you will find once again that Verizon has more covergage then Sprint.
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californiabaseball11 said:
Sprint can claim they reach that many people because they roam on other carriers that is not their native network but everyone elses. Go look at the Sprint coverage map outside of all the major cities it is all roaming. That isn't much of a network now is it. Go look at their broadband or 3G network you will find once again that Verizon has more covergage then Sprint.
First, ALL four major carriers concentrate the majority of their network coverage around major cities and along the interstate highways. that is why Verizon wanted to buy Alltel because they mostly cover RURAL areas of the country whereas Verizon covers those major cities and along the freeway.
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Ok please go learn english native means your own not toaming on other carriers. You repeatedly assume that native means roaming it does not. Second Verizon does not just have coverage in highways and in major areas. Have you ever seen a Verizon map who used their service. Did you look at the two companies broadband footprints. Apparently, you did not. Please do your homework and stop quoting coporate numbers about projected customers they reach. Tell me why is it that Verizon customers can make crystal clear calls in the middle of nowhere and everyone but Sprint customer can not if in fact their have move native coverage as you claim. Sprint has very little native coverage compared to Verizon please go look at the maps. The grey area on Spri...
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Ok please go learn english native means your own not toaming on other carriers. You repeatedly assume that native means roaming it does not. Second Verizon does not just have coverage in highways and in major areas. Have you ever seen a Verizon map who used their service. Did you look at the two companies broadband footprints. Apparently, you did not. Please do your homework and stop quoting coporate numbers about projected customers they reach. Tell me why is it that Verizon customers can make crystal clear calls in the middle of nowhere and everyone but Sprint customer can not if in fact their have move native coverage as you claim. Sprint has very little native coverage compared to Verizon pl
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I used to live by syracuse university I have a verizon phone, it worked everywhere. My friend directly across the street had a sprint phone, his phone worked at my house but not his...a mere 100 feet away! This is in syracuse my friend, while not the size of ny or chi. Its a city with more than a million people. You should not have problems like that in a city that size.
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