Updated AT&T coverage viewer

[shk718]

26th and 12th ave it's pretty good. and i also work in midtown and it just gets a bit slow around 11am. but what do you expect when there are a million people within a square mile

i expect att to put up more cell towers to cover the million people. they treat nyc like its a small town and don't have enought towers.

 

[goobot]

well

well im sticking with att considering where i live version, tmoble and sprint get no service and att get five bars of 3g. so when im using my phone in school i can just pull it out. when the version kids try they walk all around the room and rase their hand in the air when the teachers arent looking and try to get a signal for 1 bar and cant get that i get 5 bars right in my seat.

well in my area att is great.
i even got some kids to switch since version gets no service.

not to mention i got a tmoble kid to switch.


what it comes down to is do YOU get service in your home not in the middle of the desert

 

[lllll]

Just letting everyone know they seem to have updated the map viewer on their coverage site. Seems easier to use and more responsive.


http://www.wireless.att.com/coverageviewer/

That's an exaggerated map in response to Verizon making fun of ATT's coverage in the TV ads, there's a map for that. LOL

 

[aristotle]

That is absolutely... incorrect. You are apparently basing your post upon the commonplace, but bogus, idea that LTE is natively GSM compatible.

It is not. LTE has been chosen by GSM carriers, but that does not make it GSM. LTE has also been chosen by CDMA carriers, but that does not make it CDMA either.

In other words, CDMA -> LTE is the same as GSM -> LTE... each has to move to a totally different air and backend interface.

Actually, moving to LTE is slightly easier for CDMA carriers, as they are far more likely to have already implemented massive IP backend networks, which LTE is based upon.

Verizon has it all over ATT for 4G, as Verizon has invested heavily not only in the airwave auctions, but in fiber backhaul. Moreover, Verizon is defining the equipment, since they're first implementers.

Oh the irony.
Google is your friend. Go ahead and look on Wikipedia. LTE is the evolution of UTMS which is referred to as 3G GSM in Europe and Asia. In Canada, GSM Carriers offer HSPA+ and UTMS service. Look on GSMWorld for Fido.

I see where the confusion is. You saw W-CDMA somewhere and immediately thought that it was compatible with CDMA2000 which is what Sprint, Verizon, Bell and Telus use. WCDMA is used by UTMS and yet it is referred to as a 3G GSM technology. The core network of both UTMS and the new LTE is based on GSM rather than CDMA2000. The WCDMA air interface does share some similarities to CDMA but that is where the similarity ends.

 

[sdsvtdriver]

That map is useless and bogus.

Blanket 3G where I live... which is why my phone drops to 'Searching...' outside in the street.