Intel Corp (INTC)

[Andy Grave]

I'm thinking of switching to T-Mobile. Verizon is just .... greedy. Well, they all are. T-Mobile, just less so. If you live in major metros that is.

I'm now on a prepaid 1G data plan at $45 a month....plus if you get on auto pay, they give you another 1G free.....really more than I need. even when I'm out of the house. My issue is they totally misrepresented their cell coverage. I'm in a rural area but their coverage map strongly implies I'd have a good cell signal. I DO NOT. I have dropped calls way too often and it is only very marginally better outside my home. I can't ever get a data connection and thus get web connection thru my wireless smart router from Cablevision which provides internet and TV. Can someone here tell me what they measure for cell strength on their phone? I get -104dBm inside my house and perhaps -96dBm at best out side. This must be terrible but Verizon simply refuses to give me typical numbers corresponding to strong/medium/weak signals. They say, I need to call from a separate phone to diagnose my phone at my house. I dumped my land line for Verizon. Then these idiots tell me to see if I can get my friend (with a cheap android phone) and a different carrier to come over so I can use his phone with perhaps a better connection to call from my house. Only then can they fully diagnose my issue on their network. Incredible