I've been checking into other carriers lately, with thoughts of leaving Verizon. I talked the other day to a sales rep at a small AT&T store, checking into the phones and the price of the plans. I live in the Chicago Suburbs near O'hare airport, so Verizon has great coverage for me here. When I checked the Root Metrics coverage maps Verizon came first in my area, along with AT&T in second. Then Sprint and finally T-Mobile. I would jump all over T-Mobile for the price of their plans and no contract, but my first Cell phone (dumphone) dropped calls a lot, so left them for Verizon. That was back in 2007, not sure I trust T-Mobile now and no LTE coverage here yet.
Anyways, when talking with the Sales Rep at AT&T, I told him I have a friend who has AT&T and whenever we talk on the phone after he gets off work, he drops the call. He says he's usually passing a forest or an area with a bunch of Trees, when it happens. When asked what kind of phone my friend has, he has a Motorola RAZR Flipphone (Dumbphone). Well, said the Sales Guy, that's old technology, the reason it drops the Calls is because it's an old phone. I'm thinking to myself, is this a bunch of B.S. the Sales guy is telling me so I switch to them? I never heard of that before. Shouldn't any phone on their network work on their Network?
I do have another buddy who had a smartphone on Sprint, it was his last phone he had and we would always drop connections right in his house or backyard. When he finally upgraded last year to a newer Smartphone on Sprint, we now don't experience dropped calls. So I do believe some of what the AT&T guy says, just from the experience with my friend on Sprint. I would never go to Sprint, because I have another friend who's work smartphone drops calls all the time and he works all over the city.
So is it true that it could be the phone and not the Network? Hoping maybe someone credible who either knows this stuff or a Cell Phone Sales Rep can tell me if it's the phone or the Network? Thanks in advance.
Also want to add, the only advantage to moving to AT&T is $5 a month savings for the exact same plan I have on Verizon. Unlimited Talk and Text, plus 1G of Data.
Anyways, when talking with the Sales Rep at AT&T, I told him I have a friend who has AT&T and whenever we talk on the phone after he gets off work, he drops the call. He says he's usually passing a forest or an area with a bunch of Trees, when it happens. When asked what kind of phone my friend has, he has a Motorola RAZR Flipphone (Dumbphone). Well, said the Sales Guy, that's old technology, the reason it drops the Calls is because it's an old phone. I'm thinking to myself, is this a bunch of B.S. the Sales guy is telling me so I switch to them? I never heard of that before. Shouldn't any phone on their network work on their Network?
I do have another buddy who had a smartphone on Sprint, it was his last phone he had and we would always drop connections right in his house or backyard. When he finally upgraded last year to a newer Smartphone on Sprint, we now don't experience dropped calls. So I do believe some of what the AT&T guy says, just from the experience with my friend on Sprint. I would never go to Sprint, because I have another friend who's work smartphone drops calls all the time and he works all over the city.
So is it true that it could be the phone and not the Network? Hoping maybe someone credible who either knows this stuff or a Cell Phone Sales Rep can tell me if it's the phone or the Network? Thanks in advance.
Also want to add, the only advantage to moving to AT&T is $5 a month savings for the exact same plan I have on Verizon. Unlimited Talk and Text, plus 1G of Data.
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