coverage in greater wash dc, baltimore, eastern shore ?

Contemplating switching to sprint from verizon

Mainly to get advantage of new lower priced data services such as
email, web access on a treo phone

As I travel from western edge of wash area (leesburg, middleburg,
charlottesville)
to southern maryland (calvert county, PAX Naval air) to northern
Baltimore suburbs (Towson, Owings Mills) to easter shore - Lewes,
Rehoboth along rt 16 in delaware

would like to know how good coverage is in these areas

appreciate cc to email for any postings to list
tx
tom

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As that is the home area for Bell-Atlantic now Verizon it is logical to assume,
and my son confirms, that Verizon has the best overall coverage. It is entirely
possible that there are areas where Sprint's coverage may be better. Go to the
areas where you need to use the phone and ask around.

[email protected] (tom williams) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Contemplating switching to sprint from verizon
>
> Mainly to get advantage of new lower priced data services such as
> email, web access on a treo phone
>
> As I travel from western edge of wash area (leesburg, middleburg,
> charlottesville)
> to southern maryland (calvert county, PAX Naval air) to northern
> Baltimore suburbs (Towson, Owings Mills) to easter shore - Lewes,
> Rehoboth along rt 16 in delaware
>
> would like to know how good coverage is in these areas
>
> appreciate cc to email for any postings to list
> tx
> tom


You can also check out this site to get an idea on where some of
Sprint's towers and future towers are located:

http://www.sprint.com/pcsbusiness/co...towermaps.html

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 03:35:01 -0800, tom williams wrote:

> Contemplating switching to sprint from verizon
>
> Mainly to get advantage of new lower priced data services such as
> email, web access on a treo phone
>
> As I travel from western edge of wash area (leesburg, middleburg,
> charlottesville)
> to southern maryland (calvert county, PAX Naval air) to northern
> Baltimore suburbs (Towson, Owings Mills) to easter shore - Lewes,
> Rehoboth along rt 16 in delaware
>
> would like to know how good coverage is in these areas
>
> appreciate cc to email for any postings to list
> tx
> tom
As a person who stayed in germantown, md and traveled daily between the
metro station near there and union station I can say I had perfect sprint
signal. The only problem I had was in the metro tunnels. Verizon only
provides 800mhz digital signal and 800mhz analog which rules out my sanyo
4900 for digital roam. Which as anyone knows on the metro you will quickly
jump out of analog cell range before you complete your call while the
metro is in motion.

I live in the Leesburg area and have great Sprint PCS coverage. I travel
down rt. 15 to Manassas regularly. Through Centreville, Chantilly, Herndon,
Sterling and Reston are my regular areas and Sprint works great for me. I
use a Samsung i500 and it is a great phone. Good luck.
"tom williams" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Contemplating switching to sprint from verizon
>
> Mainly to get advantage of new lower priced data services such as
> email, web access on a treo phone
>
> As I travel from western edge of wash area (leesburg, middleburg,
> charlottesville)
> to southern maryland (calvert county, PAX Naval air) to northern
> Baltimore suburbs (Towson, Owings Mills) to easter shore - Lewes,
> Rehoboth along rt 16 in delaware
>
> would like to know how good coverage is in these areas
>
> appreciate cc to email for any postings to list
> tx
> tom

Here's a pair of articles from the Washington Post about coverage.
They're from 2 years ago - coverage may have improved since then.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2001Oct4.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2001Oct4.html

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