cell service suggestions?

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

I've currently got T-Mobile on my cell phone, and most of Davis Square is a black hole for me. I get almost no service along Elm street, and none at all inside Redbone's or Diesel.

Anybody got suggestions for a carrier with better coverage in the area?

Comments

[somesuch.livejournal.com]

That's weird...I have T-Mobile as well, live right in the square and never have problems with reception, except in the basement of the Goodwill.

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

Odd. Maybe it's my phone. (I'm using a Treo 180, GSM). I'll snap the SIM chip into my old Motorola and see what reception is like.

Wait, stray neuron fires! Are you on an analog or digital network? I'm digital.

[nathanjw]

T-Mobile doesn't have any analog network - or, rather, no GSM phones are dual-mode GSM/AMPS, so T-Mobile, Cingular, and AT&T don't have any fallback to analog networks, while Verizon and Sprint, using CDMA phones, do have some dual-mode CDMA/AMPS phones that can do analog fallback.