Re:Sprint to be exclusive carrier of Essential phone
by smacktoward on Monday June 12, 2017 @02:07PM
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I live just outside Washington, DC and have Sprint. The service is fine for me here. But then last year I took a trip to Florida and couldn't get a signal to save my life.
In other words, Sprint's coverage is great right up to the moment when it's terrible. Which you can live with if you're mostly in a place where it's great, but which makes it hard to recommend to people generally since you have no idea if they happen to spend most of their time in places where it isn't.
Re:Sprint to be exclusive carrier of Essential phone
by covercash on Monday June 12, 2017 @02:09PM
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Weird, I have coverage in and around CHOP on TMO. It's not the best, sometimes drops from weak LTE to 4G, but it functions. All the Penn facilities offer reliable (but certainly not fast) wifi, so as long as your phone supports wifi calling, it shouldn't be a problem.
Re:Sprint to be exclusive carrier of Essential phone
by Prefinem on Monday June 12, 2017 @01:36PM
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I live in Kansas City where Sprint is located. You think they would have the best service out here because of headquarters and all, and yet, every person that I talk to that has Sprint hates the cell service quality.
I live in Pennsylvania and travel to Connecticut and West Virginia all the time. I don't see coverage issues and in fact in the back woods of the country Sprint has better coverage due to a few acquisitions it has made in that area.
TMobile has a real problem on the East Coast. Coverage is bad in my city. Doesn't work in WV and when my son was sick with cancer CHOP (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) in the Surgery Wait Room they tell you that they can't call you if you have TMobile, which means you can't leave the waiting area at all.