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advice on a network in Grand Rapids.

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mthguy

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I know, i know, AT&T's network isn't the greatest, BUT their 3g network here in Grand Rapids, MI is about 5 years mature, and tmobiles 3G is only about 18 months mature. I hear horror stories about tmobile coverage. I live in the city and I have family out by lake michigan and out in farm country. with my old as janky iPhone 3g I get 3g service in all those places. I would pull my hair out if i was stuck on anything slower than 3g when at my in-laws for hours on end.

so does anyone have experience with tmobiles 3g coverage and general speed in Grand Rapids? I demoed a nexus s at a best buy on launch day, and that thing really is quick. Just don't want to regret the decision.

FYI i got the iPhone 2 years ago january, so i am just hoping i can make it until my contract runs up before i get another phone. otherwise i would have switched long ago. also AT&T has no android offerings worth a damn. I am just hoping the iphone goes to verizon so AT&T is forced to improve their selection, and possibly have a nexus released with ATT3G bands.

I will take any advice.

Thanks.
 
Isn't Sprint on 4G over there? I would go with that or Verizon. T-Mobile sucks just about everywhere in Michigan.
 
yea, 4g is live here! pretty cool! that cellreception.com link has some really old really spotty data!

I would love a fairly stock experience and a nexus would be the tops.
 
Hi there,

I've had T-Mobile for eight years in Grand Rapids with no complaints. I get 3G coverage nearly everywhere, and voice coverage nearly everywhere as well, with a few anomalous dead-spots. They even offered me full technical support with my jailbroken iPhone 3G when I had it. To be fair, my friends on other networks experience similar dead-spots in other places as well.

I am very satisfied with T-Mobile and will keep them for the forseeable future. My next phone will likely be a MyTouch 4G.

Let me know if you have any specific questions.
 
seely said:
Hi there,

I've had T-Mobile for eight years in Grand Rapids with no complaints. I get 3G coverage nearly everywhere, and voice coverage nearly everywhere as well, with a few anomalous dead-spots. They even offered me full technical support with my jailbroken iPhone 3G when I had it. To be fair, my friends on other networks experience similar dead-spots in other places as well.

I am very satisfied with T-Mobile and will keep them for the forseeable future. My next phone will likely be a MyTouch 4G.

Let me know if you have any specific questions.
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Try living on the east side of the state with T-Mobile. There are so many dead spots on the expressways around here. Everyone I know who had T-Mobile because it was cheap dropped it when their contract was up because of dropped calls. T-Mobile isn't very good up north either from what most of them said.

I would put T-Mobile just ahead of Metro PCS. :(
 
alright! any grand rapidians on sprints network? i know there must be at least a few evo users out there! how have your 4g coverage been? what areas are dead for you?

verizon users! is it really worth all that cash? every time i think i am going to go verizon i look at those plans and i realize why i wasn't going that way.

my in laws live way up north of alpine just off of division N in comstock park/sparta I am there frequently and HAVE to have my phone's internet working at full speed because they don't have high speed and it is pretty boring up there otherwise. so anyone familiar with that area, and have comments on their respective netowrk there. T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon?

I would love to have sprints all you can eat plans at those prices, but the evo is showing it's age already and the epic is still stuck on 2.1. I would realyl like a nexus type experience, but i don't know if i want to deal with best buy, since the one here doesn't sell on contract through the store, so i would have to order it. AND since they have the exclusive they will never sale it. where as the my touch 4g is only 50 on amazon and wirefly.com and it is hard to convince the wife that i "need" to spend 200 when 50 appears to her to give me pretty much the same phone.

ARGH!
 
so Ideas on phones that would be similar to the nexus on any carriers? or a particular carrier that would have a service and plan that would be favorable?

also anyone know if that vibrant on tmobile has gotten a decent GPS fix?
 
Last i heard was that the Vibrant was dead, and they werent going to send out updates for it.

I have the MyTouch4G and its the best android phone I have ever had. I think it beats out the Nexus S operating on Gingerbread. The differences are minimal with the only positive feature that Nexus S has would be the Near Field Communication Chip, but seeing as that technology isnt being used widely YET, it could be overlooked.
 
I can only describe T-Mobile's 3G in GR as 'blazing fast' - I have a G2, and I typically get no less than 3Mbps, and in recent times I've usually been getting at least 4-5. I downloaded the latest episode of Trance Around The World onto my phone earlier today at work (in kentwood near the airport), and it went at over 8Mbps (that's over 1 mega BYTE per second).

3g coverage drops off if you go outside of the metro area. There is not coverage in hudsonville/zeeland, but there is some coverage in Holland.

Go here: T-Mobile Coverage and click the 'data coverage' tab. "Fast Mobile Web" = 3G.

Quite honestly, if it weren't for the darn 5GB cap, I'd drop my home internet and get a data card - it's faster than my DSL.
 
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