Hi David, I agree with you about use of the tower's.
They all Companies bragging rights could come true.
Enjoy your IPad. I do mine!
KeithC.
From the AlabamaHills!
--- In iPad@yahoogroups.com, "David H. Bailey" <dhbailey52@...> wrote:
>
> On 3/29/2012 9:15 PM, Jim Saklad wrote:
> >>> Were you aware at the time that, if you are outside of a Verizon 4G market, and you get to use 3G, that Verizon's 3G is slower than ATT's?
> >>
> >> Verizon has better coverage so what would you rather want? Good coverage or speed?
> >> Petej
> >
> > Both, thank you.
> >
> > I look at the maps.
> >
> > If I knew I would be spending a lot of time in an area where AT&T coverage was spotty, but Verizon coverage was good, I would sacrifice speed for having *some* connectivity.
> >
> > If I knew I would be mostly in areas with equally good coverage from both systems, I would opt for the one with the faster speeds.
> >
>
> And why they can't both cover all the same areas is beyond me as well --
> why can't the FCC force all cellular companies to use the same towers
> around the country, the way that each independent telephone company one
> may select doesn't have to run its own telephone wires to your house.
>
> Build a national cellular grid that covers everybody, like the electric
> grid and the old fashioned pre-cellular telephone grid, and force
> everybody to play nicely with everybody else and actually compete on
> features and price like a fair and truly free marketplace ought to be doing.
>
> But then I also believe in the tooth fairy and happy endings. . .
>
> --
> David H. Bailey
> dhbailey@...
>
