Having spent the last 8 years in rural cell phone areas after living in a metro area for 10 years. Verizon is the only carrier in any rural town I have lived that have had any decent phones, but their coverage is guarenteed (along with Alltel) to drop out the moment you leave home. The local company here now is GSM, but they have flimsy phones with even flimsier options available. In order to have something like the iPhone out here, you have to sacrifice service, and in some cases even value. The cellular market is becoming more of a oligopoly with ATT, Verizon and Alltel as the only real options, and they seem to focus more on the metro areas rather than the rural.
“There's a certain feeling of wading through water with this phone, as every time we went exploring the menus, we were met with a delay long enough to make us doubt our keystrokes registered.”
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Having spent the last 8 years in rural cell phone areas after living in a metro area for 10 years. Verizon is the only carrier in any rural town I have lived that have had any decent phones, but their coverage is guarenteed (along with Alltel) to drop out the moment you leave home. The local company here now is GSM, but they have flimsy phones with even flimsier options available. In order to have something like the iPhone out here, you have to sacrifice service, and in some cases even value. The cellular market is becoming more of a oligopoly with ATT, Verizon and Alltel as the only real options, and they seem to focus more on the metro areas rather than the rural.