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Anyone in NJ have Verizon Wireless or Sprint PCS?

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Storm

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How is the real-world service and coverage? Also what phone do you have? I was thinking about considering ATT Wireless but they seem to be in a transition phase offered only mlife type plans. Based on the coverage maps Verizon says it covers all of NJ. On the other hand Sprint PCS covers the major parts of NJ I'll be roaming around.

My question is does Verizon really cover all that area? Based on the national maps Verizon covers a majority of all states. It almost seems too good to be true, while Sprint PCS offers smaller coverage due to smaller market share? I'm just skeptical about Verizon's ability to offer such totality of coverage.

 
Verizon has the best coverage in NJ.

also, if you want to use ur cell phone for internet access Verizon has Express Net, 144 kbs speeds for Internet access.

 
VZ is good to poor in NJ (or at least in my house where i get a crap load of dropped calls), and Excellent in NYC. Crystal clear when making calls from NYC.
 
Originally posted by: Linux23
VZ is good to poor in NJ (or at least in my house where i get a crap load of dropped calls), and Excellent in NYC. Crystal clear when making calls from NYC.
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linux have you tried sprint or att??

i've had all three and neither of the other two even come close to verizon for coverage and i travel a LOT. i have clients as far south as Berlin and Waterford Works NJ and as far north as Fort Lee, Parsippany, I have clients in Philly, I have clients on the coast, Hazlet, Toms Rivers. and everywhere that i've been i get better coverage with verizon than i did with Sprint or ATT.
 
Originally posted by: LeeTJ
Originally posted by: Linux23
VZ is good to poor in NJ (or at least in my house where i get a crap load of dropped calls), and Excellent in NYC. Crystal clear when making calls from NYC.
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linux have you tried sprint or att??

i've had all three and neither of the other two even come close to verizon for coverage and i travel a LOT. i have clients as far south as Berlin and Waterford Works NJ and as far north as Fort Lee, Parsippany, I have clients in Philly, I have clients on the coast, Hazlet, Toms Rivers. and everywhere that i've been i get better coverage with verizon than i did with Sprint or ATT.
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I just dumped ATT a month ago...worst service EVAR.

VZ so far has been night and day compared to ATT, can't speak much about Sprint but most of my friends in NYC have dumped them for VZ, so that tells you a lot about their service.
 
FYI, Sprint has the same data rates as Verizon and better handsets IMHO. Can't comment on the coverage in Jersey tho.
 
Originally posted by: NutBucket
FYI, Sprint has the same data rates as Verizon and better handsets IMHO. Can't comment on the coverage in Jersey tho.
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verizon used to have a bad selection of phones, but their current line is as good as ANYONES.
 
I had Verizon on a StarTac phone - best coverage I had whole time I was in NJ.

Did not try Sprint, but tried most of others
 
Sure, I've got an opinion. I can't speak about the coverage in your area, but my opinion is that Verizon is certainly the more pleasant company to do business with.

If you ever need to call customer service, with Verizon, you'll rarely, if ever, wait on hold to talk to someone, while with Sprint, you will, possibly for an unacceptably long time. Verizon has pleasant people on the other end of the line, while calling Sprint got me people who were indifferent at best. Sprint used to do everything they could to discourage you from ever calling. I think the 30-50 minutes hold times were part of that. They even had the gall to charge some customers a $3 "service fee" just to talk to a live human being for a little while. Sprint now deducts airtime when you call the automated recording of your own airtime usage! How f-cked up is that? Any company that has ever showed such a blatant disregard for their customers like that is not a company I want to do business with. I will never give them my business ever again, no matter how much they claim to have improved their people skills.
 
Originally posted by: Thegonagle
Sure, I've got an opinion. I can't speak about the coverage in your area, but my opinion is that Verizon is certainly the more pleasant company to do business with.

If you ever need to call customer service, with Verizon, you'll rarely, if ever, wait on hold to talk to someone, while with Sprint, you will, possibly for an unacceptably long time. Verizon has pleasant people on the other end of the line, while calling Sprint got me people who were indifferent at best. Sprint used to do everything they could to discourage you from ever calling. I think the 30-50 minutes hold times were part of that. They even had the gall to charge some customers a $3 "service fee" just to talk to a live human being for a little while. Sprint now deducts airtime when you call the automated recording of your own airtime usage! How f-cked up is that? Any company that has ever showed such a blatant disregard for their customers like that is not a company I want to do business with. I will never give them my business ever again, no matter how much they claim to have improved their people skills.
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This hasn't been the case for a while. Sprint has really improved their business practices mainly due to a new CEO. Complaints have dropped a lot. I've been with Sprint for 2.5 years and haven't had any bad experiences yet.
 
Haven't used Verizon in about 4 years but from what I can gather they are pretty good these days.

I'm on the Cingular GSM network in NJ and I'm considering trading up to some tin cans and a piece of string.. I might
be able to sustain a call that way.


 
my whole family's been on sprintpcs for over 6 years in North Jersey. I live in the middle of Jersey, where I attend school, works perfectly there too. Customer service is great too, they've improved alot. Havent really tried in in Southern Jersey yet.
 
Storm,

Get Verizon. Not only do I think Verizon is better and has the best coverage, I have actually had some tests on this. At work here, we tested out Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint with some co-workers. After about a year, Verizon won hand down. AT&T came in second and Sprint came in last.

Hope that helps your decision a bit.
 
Verizon is best IMO. I'm from South NJ, and usually won't have a dropped call until I hit this one area on 295 South near the Delaware Mem bridge... Other than that, on avg last year I only had a dropped call of about 1 in every 40-50. I used to have Cingular, and it would drop calls much more frequently than Verizon did...

When driving to NYC through all of NJ I'd talk to my sister using Verizon, and never had a problem. In fact, I'll drive up from Southern MD where I live now to NJ and talk maybe half of the way up to friends and rarely get a dropped call! BTW, I'm using the Motorola V60i. Good luck.
 
The three phones I carry are Verizon, ATT and Sprint. Verizon has the widest coverage but if you are in one of their dead zones (like my house) they duh, don't work. Sprint works at my house but otherwise is pretty spotty. ATT is the one I use at certain clients' sites where nothing else works, and we are grandfathered into a weird plan that has free calls between our phones so we all call each other all the time and it's really cheap.

Coverage maps don't show the dead spots, see if you can borrow a phone and make sure it works at your house.
 
sprintpcs for 6 years in the NYC area. only service i have ever used. great in manhattan. sucks a little at my home in queens since wtc.

i had pretty good coverage in jersey when i venture out there
 
Verizon here for the last 5 years with a trusty (and crusty) old StarTac.
Pretty good service all around except for farm country in Gloucester and Salem counties.
 
PCS sucks in NJ (had them for a few years and my wife used to work there setting up the cell towers). I recently switched to Tmobile and am enjoying it MUCH better then PCS for sure.
Live in Northern NJ and work in central.
 
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