Verizon Coverage Better than AT&T Coverage?
If you decided to choose a cell phone just based on TV commercials alone, you would probably go with AT&T. That’s because they are bombarding the advertising space with those Luke Wilson commercial claiming their coverage is fine for 97% of Americans. This is in response to earlier Verizon commercials showing the Verizon coverage map (almost full) and the AT&T coverage map (with lots of holes it in).
If you look at what people are really saying (Google “at&t coverage sucks”) you will find a lot of unhappy AT&T customers. Many of them are iPhone users. And these are not problems isolated to remote areas of North Dakota. There are complaints of AT&T coverage holes in the middle of New York City as well as places in the San Francisco Bay Area that lack coverage. There is one guy who says he lives a mile from an AT&T store and can’t get a signal. Now that is irony! Ask any iPhone user how he/she feels about their AT&T service and see that they say.
You will some complaints about Verizon as you will with just about any other large company. But it seems to me that Verizon does really have AT&T coverage beat. This is one of the reasons that Lightyear Wireless aligned with Verizon and uses their backbone. They really are the largest carrier. And there are rumors that Apple is a designing an iPhone to be used with the Verizon network. I don’t know when it will be available or when it will be available for Lightyear Wireless customers but you can bet on one thing with the Wireless industry. Things will be changing frequently!
