On 2008-05-08, Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote:
> At 08 May 2008 02:28:36 +0000 Steve Sobol wrote:
>> Verizon. Formed by the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE. Verizon Wireless
>> included those properties plus the properties of Vodafone AirTouch
>> Cellular and PrimeCo (A 1900MHz carrier, Phillippe, FYI).
>
> Funny you mentioned the 1900MHz bit. I was going to throw Consumer
> Reports' cellular survey back at Steven Scharf in my last post but forgot
> to get around to it- despite his "Verizon-dominates-independent-surveys" as
> "proof" 1900 MHz is inferior to 800MHz, CR's survey ranked Verizon as best
> in
> the Miami market (like in many cities) in the No Signal, and Dropped Calls
> categories as well as overall score. The "punchline" of course, is that
> Verizon is a 1900MHz-only carrier in Miami. AT&T owns both 800MHz licenses
> there. (T-Mobile often came in second to Verizon many markets in the CR
> survey, above AT&T, despite AT&T being 800 and T-Mobile 1900. Maybe
> Verizon is just a little better at building out a network than the others,
> and it has nothing to do with frequency? Or maybe an even simpler
> explanation is the "can you hear me
> now" brainwashing is market independent?)
Yes, that's correct. In fact the Consumer Reports survey covers
three markets where Verizon is a 1900 MHz carrier: Miami, Tampa
and Dallas. Verizon's coverage is rated no worse there than anywhere
else in the country. And a couple of the very worst coverage scores in
that survey are for AT&T in Washington, DC and Boston, where AT&T is a
cellular operator.
Dennis Ferguson
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