Northern Oregon Coast Coverage
Dan Albrich
between Tillamook and Florence Oregon. Verizon's upgrades (last year) to
digital have really paid off. With both my AT&T and Verizon phones in the
dash board, I could see many areas where my AT&T phone had no service, and
Verizon did had digital service. The astounding thing to me was that
Verizon now has more digital coverage on the central and northern coast than
AT&T.
I spent this weekend in Yachats, and AT&T roams on Cellular One there
(analog-only). Verizon has digital service there, including data (QNC data
etc.). Verizon phones all along that stretch can make and receive calls on
both A and B sides because Verizon has roaming agreements with Cellular One
too.
In any event, the battle for better coverage at the northern Oregon coast
appears to be in Verizon's favor after their upgrades.
-Dan
PS: Since you can use either A or B sides, and this is a native Verizon
area, I set my phone for "auto-A" which always selects Verizon's native
B-side coverage first anyway. In general I found Verizon to be the
stronger, but inside my hotel room the A side was stronger and would be
autoselected this way. Caller ID, and VM indication also worked fine for me
even when roaming on Cellular One. Note that Cellular One is not in the PRL
and not included with AC, so this is more useful for SingleRate customers
like myself. In the areas I traveled this weekend, a Verizon phone would
work anywhere any other phone could, and more. Now if Verizon would build
out their southern Oregon licenses...
Notable improvments include cape perpetua and the ability to make and
receive calls in digital mode even at the base of devils churn.. Very good.
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Eugene, Oregon -- Pacific Northwest
Mike C
to digital, currently, only Ukiah(in Mendocino County)has digital, the rest
of the two counties are still analog. Verizon currently has the least
amount of digital coverage here, as well as the worst coverage, US Cellular
and Edge beat them by a longshot. Verizon is putting up 12 new sites here,
but that'll take another 12-18 months they tell me(after writing the
president's office and finding an awesome rep to tell me their progress, as
these sites were supposed to be up by this summer!!) I am glad to see your
area is getting upgraded, I am more than unhappy with Verizon's progress
here.
"Dan Albrich" <junk...@shaney.uoregon.edui> wrote in message
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Dan Albrich
Yes, Verizon's advantage in northern Oregon coast is a narrow one, and their
coverage in southern Oregon does not compete (Edge Wireless really helps
the AT&T crowd tremendously).
I'll seriously consider switching back to AT&T when my contract expires in
November due to the loss of justalurkers website. This sounds like the end
of what was a reasonable cellular company to deal with. Anyway, thankfully,
I have never recommended Verizon to my friends here in Oregon, only AT&T
which appears to be the right choice...
-Dan
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Eugene, Oregon -- Pacific Northwest
"Mike C" <cali...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Mike C
there just isn't much choice here. While Edge has great coverage, and is
all digital, they don't have any data features, and their rate plans aren't
anything to write home about. US Cellular has better plans, and has great
coverage, but their local store in Ukiah, and cs in Medford are a pain to
deal with, and are especially stingy with promos, renewals, etc. Verizon
has the poorest coverage, but they will be adding 12 new sites by the end of
next year. They have the best plans, hands down, and their features,
especially data wise, are great, and unmatched by anybody. Sprint, Nextel,
Cingular, Metro PCS, and Tmobile/Vstream all have licenses to operate here,
but have yet to build out their systems. I am glad that things are better
with Verizon in your part of Oregon, didn't mean my post to sound like a
jealous kid or something :)
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