Cell Phone Service in NH- Verizon or ATT Customers Come In!!! (Concord: credit, home)
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We currently have service with Verizon and due to the landscape it doesn't work at our home (no service will reliably) but are generally happy with the service's coverage. However since our usage is erratic rollover minutes would be beneficial to us and I'd appreciate a greater selection in phones; so I'm investigating ATT as well.
So for those of you with ATT, how is your coverage and in what parts of the state? Also if any of you have had Verizon recently- which service has been better for you? Thanks!
Oh- and I've looked at coverage maps; while ATT shows a lot less coverage- I also tend to believe it more because Verizon shows coverage in areas I know they have none.
I have had great luck with my Verizon service, and I travel the whole state for work. Very few areas that I have no service. I have heard, from friends and family, that ATT really stinks in NH. Many people want Iphones, including me, but can't get them because the service from ATT is so bad around here.
I have had great luck with my Verizon service, and I travel the whole state for work. Very few areas that I have no service. I have heard, from friends and family, that ATT really stinks in NH. Many people want Iphones, including me, but can't get them because the service from ATT is so bad around here.
I'm with Verizon wireless, and plan on staying. My profession demands that I do a ton of driving, and being licensed in both MA and NH I have to be available as often as possible when on the road in BOTH states. I got mad after going WAY over on my minutes a few months in a row, and went with AT&T for a short time. LUCKILY I was able to get out of the contract with them and went back to Verizon. There are VERY FEW areas of the state where I can't get a signal, much of which is right along High Range Road in Londonderry, and spotty service all along Route 128 from Londonderry all the way down to Lowell/Dracut.
I currently have Nextel and CAN'T STAND IT! My boyfriend and I went to the Verizon store to look into plans but my credit is not so great and they wanted a $400 deposit up front before I could sign up! I don't have an extra $400 laying around at this time of year, so I have to just suck it up for now! : ( I'm bummed out about that, but what can you do, you know?
I have some friends and neighbors that have Verizon and say it is, by far, the best service in NH.
There are less dropped calls and more service coverage than Nextel thats for sure!
Check into getting your phone "upgraded" through the Verizon office - not purchasing a new phone, but they upgrade it through the computer - like a "patch" of sorts. That might help with some of your trouble spots renlouis, it did my boss here in NC.
I have ATT here in NC and love the rollover minutes personally, but you have to use them within a year I think. My coverage in NC is sporadic as well.
NH is unique in that its topography tends to wreak havoc on phone signals. I drove truck for a couple years throughout NH so I'll offer what I can. The biggest trouble spots in NH tend to be along rt. 89, the Monadnock region, the Lakes region, almost anything north of Concord, and the inner seacoast area.
Nextel - I had Nextel for years when I lived on the seacoast, and spent most of my time in Maine and Eastern Mass. Nextel worked great then, but when they merged with Sprint they went downhill. Nextel doesn't work in the Monadnock region, and is spotty at best in northern NH.
Sprint - They have greater coverage than Nextel, but their customer service is awful. It is difficult to travel the state and stay connected. Spotty service up north.
Verizon - Many of the drivers I worked with had them. Good overall coverage. Can travel laterally in the state and stay connected. There is coverage up north, but it may be roaming off of Canadian towers (can't remember.)
AT&T - This is my current phone provider. Good choice of phones, and good coverage. Not the cheapest company though. Got them after I quit driving so I am unsure of the conditions north of Concord.
T-Mobile - Cheap plans, good phone choices, good coverage. They don't seem to have the best tower overlap so rural areas can suffer.
U.S. Cellular - My gf has them. Great customer service, but crappy plans. Her phone tends to roam a lot, even in downtown Keene and downtown Portland.
There are other companies out there too. Tracphone (sp?) is actually one of the best because they use the other companies towers meaning you almost always have coverage.
We have US Cellular and we are very happy with them. We live in the Lakes region. Yes there are not US Cellular Towers everywhere. We pay for the plan where you don't pay extra for roaming. We also don't pay for incoming calls. We are not on the highest plan either-more like a medium plan. I am in Florida a lot to help out my parents and we are in New Jersey a lot visiting. We are always on roam in both of those states but since we pick the higher package we don't pay for the roaming-ever. Granted some people don't want to pay for the higher packages but for us it works. We have had Sprint and Verizon. We are much happier with US Cellular. Customer service is great and we became really unhappy with Verizon towards the end. We go all over the state and have never had a problem getting service-yes it might be roaming service but as I stated that is included in our plan.
Verizon is the only thing that works in my part of NH consistently, unfortunately. I don't like their customer service...in that there is none. But ATT was absolutely horrible here. Verizon had ots of phones to choose from imho. I have the blackberry 8130 -- they had a deal going a few months ago where it was only $49.
jackie
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