Now getting less coverage with Tmobile, lame
I was checking the 3g coverage on watson to see if 3G covers where I live in mesa yet and I noticed that all of the roaming coverage in North East Arizona that Cell One provides has been removed from the coverage map, they used to allow roaming on it. I was thinking about getting the g1 phone but not now, I go up to NE Arizona all the time and at least ATT allows you to roam off of the Cell One towers. Does Tmobile plan on building out in the Show Low Pinetop area, if not than there is no way Im switching now.
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I have noticed that other people on web forums have mentioned that at&t ended its roaming agreement with T-Mobile as their roaming contracts end. at&t acquired Dobson (Cell One). I live in Chandler and I have noticed this when driving to Payson and up on the rim country (show low, etc.) I am with T-Mobile and I really like them, but I need better coverage around Arizona.
I am speculating on T-Mobile's strategy, but T-Mobile won a lot of licenses nationwide for AWS. They have 30 MHz of bandwidth in the Phoenix area, but if they wanted they could also provide 1700 MHz coverage everywhere; not that they will. I am thinking about going to at&t for now and wait to see if T-Mobile builds out their network (2G or 3G) in the 1700 Mhz band to ...
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I am speculating on T-Mobile's strategy, but T-Mobile won a lot of licenses nationwide for AWS. They have 30 MHz of bandwidth in the Phoenix area, but if they wanted they could also provide 1700 MHz coverage everywhere; not that they will. I am thinking about going to at&t for now and wait to see if T-Mobile builds out their network (2G or 3G) in the 1700 Mhz band to ...
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