>Our cell phones are go=phones from T-mobile and cost only the >minutes we use, and one does not lose any minute for a whole year.So >we are spoiled . Does anybody else, if not the iPhone, use at least >AT&T for their carrier to see whether it does OK in the Louisville >vicinity? >Marta
I am in the process of switching from them to Nextel. When I started (two years ago--arrrgh!) building the new house, I found that my Verizon phone had almost no coverage there, so I dragged everybody I could get hold of out to test their cell coverage. I found that Cingular had the best, so I switched to them. I needed to change my holdover-from-GTE no minutes plan anyway so that my architect and contractors could leave voicemail. The Cingular phone worked beautifully at this remote spot in northern Spencer county. It also worked everywhere else I tried it in Spencer, Shelby, and Jefferson counties. Then we finally got the roof on the house. It's a metal roof. I have no reception at all indoors. So I switched to Nextel and bought the same phone as the one contractor who gets reception inside. (It's not all coverage--it's partly the phone. His partner has a different phone and has to go outside to call.) I seldom go west of Middletown in Jefferson County, but the few times I've checked my Cingular phone in downtown Louisville or over near the fairgrounds I've been all right. (I was sorry to leave just as the iPhone came out, but what good would one do me if I had to go up to the mailbox to check my messages?) -- Mary Anne in Taylorsville, Kentucky "Sadly, the program didn't always work." Macworld, September 2003
