verizon vs tmobile

It may just depend on why you want to switch. If it is for the phones I say go with Tmo or cing. But service wise, Id say go with Verizon. For me, I switched from Cing to Verizon, mainly because the majority of the people I call are on Verizon so that helps out with the bill. But I know there are some cool phones coming out for verizon in the near future so that will help me stay with verizon. But mainly it just depends on your reasons for wanting to switch. good luck

Per consumer report... Verizon is top#1 then TMobile. For the other carrier forget them.

Decision, Decision... I had TMOBILE for years, because it is in the GSM technology and it carry the SIM card for unlock phones. Where you can buy SIM card and pre-paid mobile card in other country while traveling and cheaper. CDMA which Verizon and Sprint used are different technology and does not carry advance phones. Once again you can note use Verizon phone with Cingular or TMOBILE.

Both carried customer where rank #1. Since I had been TMOBILE customer for years... they acknowledge my dedication, and they are always on top to get me the answer either right or wrong asnwer, hehe. I had learned with all carriers, when you have problem, the store can get you the right answer faster and better!

I love mobile phone technology and I continue to stay with TMOBILE.

I have to say something about Cingular: I have been one of their customers for about 5 years now, and although I have problems with their support - especially their lack of it for unlocked phones you did not buy from them - I have found that rollover minutes and coverage alone are worth it. Rollover minutes are something that I am surprised that all carriers have not adopted yet. They're great. It's a money saver. The only time it wouldn't matter, I suppose, is if you always use every single minute in your plan every single month, however if you do that each month you should scale up your plan anyway. All you need is a week or two of under-utilization and instead of getting screwed because you still have to pay the freight rain or shine, you get to keep those unused minutes. Plus which, Cingular has great coverage.

And you have no clue what you are saying? T-Mobile will work wherever Verizon has coverage? Where did you get your facts from? Really, you shouldn't be giving advise if you don't know what you are talking about.

I do know what I am talking about. Below is a link to my source go to this link and in the " details " box it says "All our national voice plans include No nationwide long-distance or roaming charges" so if there is no roaming charges on ALL of thier plans you can roam/use Verizon's network on your T-mobile phone
http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/detail.aspx?tp=tb1&id=ea93d12a-3a45-4de6-9dbd-6cff082ce00b

Just because there's no roaming charge doesn't mean to say that T-Mobile has coverage everywhere that Verizon (or any other network) has. I don't think it works that way.

if a T-mobile phone is in a area that doesn't receive a signal from T-mobile but receives a signal from Verizon (or any other network)then you can use the other company's network on your T-mobile phone That is called roaming most cell phone companys charge you extra to do that but T-mobile doesn't. I have a T-mobile phone and I travel alot so my phone is roaming alot and I have used it while it is roaming and I don't get charged any extra fees

Ros2004 and I are right. Roaming means, if you get service, you will not pay roaming charges. If you don't get service, you cannot use your phone. Just check out the coverage map of T-Mobile and Verizon and Cingular and Sprint. They are all different. T Mobile has the least coverage of all major carriers in the USA. No roaming means, if you have service in your phone, you are covered by the national one rate plan (thus no roaming). Also remember, Verizon uses CDMA and T Mobile uses GSM. T Mobile might be able to roam, without paying roaming fees on Cingular network, but not on a CDMA (Verizon and Sprint) network.

Neocon explained it. If you get service on someone else's network, "no roaming charges" means you won't be charged for it. However. you won't always get service.

But then, most of the major cell phone service providers no longer charge roaming for anywhere in the continental U.S. Cingular and Verizon don't. However, I grant you that T-Mobile's least expensive package is probably cheaper than than either Cingular and Verizon's offerings.

Thanks, Ros! I always wondered what roaming "really" was...

You may not think that is how it work, but thinking about how something works and knowing are two quite different animals.

From the FCC

"?Roaming? is the term that describes a wireless phone?s ability to make and receive calls outside the home calling area under your service plan. Roaming occurs when a subscriber of one wireless service provider uses the facilities of a second provider. While the subscriber usually has no pre-existing agreement with the second provider to handle calls, the subscriber?s provider may have a ?roaming agreement? with the second provider. Under that agreement, the second provider agrees to handle calls placed by subscribers of the first provider and vice versa. When your phone is roaming, an indicator light on your phone may display the word ?roam.? On occasion, your handset will not display a roaming indicator, even though it is in a roaming area. Also, some handset software needs to be updated monthly. Often this can be done by simply pressing a few buttons on the handset. Keeping that software updated can increase reliability and reduce incorrect roaming charges."

When you are roaming you are using someone elses access points. The "coverage" maps are loosely based to display where coverage occurs for the access points belonging or affiliated directly with the service provider.

Very rarely have I been dropped from someone elses network, whether with my Cingular, Verizon, or T-Mobile phones. (PDA, Work, Home). Most cell-phone towers interoperate with each-other quite efficiently, though I have seen underhanded tactics like getting low-prio. on calls made from Service provider X while in the vicinity of Z. For example, X phone gets "All circuits are busy 75% of the time" while Z phone goes straight in. This is still a rare occurence.

The best display of this is when I took my T-Mobile to Guam. Guam does not have T-Mobile or very many other networks. I called Guam Cell to ask if it would work before checking and they will tell you that you are roaming on their network and using their services, and will be charged big fees and to us their service which charges long distance to call back to Mainland.

I turned on my phone, got the ROAMING tag, hit the web and saw that I was not going to be charged for ROAMING. I used my phone for more than 900 night and weekend (free) minutes and never saw an additional charge. I constantly called Mainland US and while in the US I always call Guam. Never once have I seen a fee, whether I was in Florida on T-Mobile network, South Dakota on (AT&T or Sprint?) network, or Guam on GuamCell networks.

I have not yet lost signal except in places where my co-workers all lose signal with their carriers as well. And when my T-Mobile is out of range, so are my Cingular and Verizon. Go figure.

Make of this what you want. FCC.gov has a nice blurb on it..

http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/cellcoverage.html

Later!

From the TMOBILE Svcs presentation. When you are not in the TMOBILE zone, it will pick up other services from other carrier. Which is called roaming and nt paid for any more fee. Actually TMOBILE was the former vociestream, and the agent at TMOBILE lend the roaming to other carrier.

All together, all carrier let you use your service for 30days, try it on your favorite place and does it work? HOme is the most important place. If a service work, stay with them. If you go over the minutes, get the suitable allotement without paying more. You do not use much? then pre-pay is the best for you, then dont have to pay monthly fee and recahrge your phone as needed.

GOOD lUCK!

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Time to shut down this thread since it was started in 2007. Feel free to open a new thread if anyone has something new to contribute.