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04-01-2008, 04:47 PM
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#1 | | Junior Member
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| Cell Phone Service
Which companies work best @ MIT?
Specifically, please compare T-Mobile and Verizon for me.
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04-01-2008, 05:19 PM
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| T-mobile is crap. Verizon isn't much better.
EDIT: let me qualify that. T-mobile has crap reception. You have a hard time pulling signals from some places on campus. Verizon has strong reception but their customer service and pricing suck. I guess you were just interested in the signal strength, though. For that, go with Verizon or AT&T. | |
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04-01-2008, 05:19 PM
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| lol get me in on this =] i'd love to know. | |
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04-01-2008, 05:20 PM
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| i wanna know too....what about AT&T?!? | |
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04-01-2008, 06:34 PM
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| Search the forum -- this question comes up every year.
The bottom line is that people disagree. Boston is a big city, and has generally good wireless coverage. MIT is made of concrete, which makes for generally poor wireless service. | |
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04-02-2008, 01:47 AM
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| Mollie is right. It's a crapshoot.
Just don't pick T-Mobile. | |
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04-02-2008, 08:05 AM
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i wanna know too....what about AT&T?!?
| I used to have AT&T. It was *horrible*. Most of the people that I know with AT&T have had the same experience.
Now I have Verizon, and it works pretty well. | |
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04-02-2008, 08:16 AM
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| Verizon has worked great for my son for 4 years. He's in EC and has never had a problem in his dorm, on campus or in Boston. It's not cheap, but he doesn't have to go outside to use his phone. | |
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04-02-2008, 08:27 AM
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| My D has AT&T and it works fine for her even inside her dorm, Simmons Hall, which has thick concrete walls and small windows. I would suggest a phone with wireless data access. My D uses it to check her mail, assignments and the position of the shuttle to/from her dorm in bad weather. It is a lot more convenient than lugging her laptop around all day. | |
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04-21-2008, 12:12 PM
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| My two kids at MIT have Verizon after doing the research. Besides having the best reception, 2/3 of their MIT Friends are on Verizon. Verizon to Verizon calls are free as long as the account is directly with Verizon and not through a reseller. Their peak phone minutes went down dramatically when they switched to a Verizon account. Before it was 800 minutes a month and now it is less than 300 minutes. | |
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04-21-2008, 04:51 PM
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| You will be unhappy with AT&T, period. I had it and had to get rid of it. People that I know who have it hate it.
Almost everybody here has verizon or TMobile. The free calls to other verizon customers is a huge plus and many many many students take advantage of it.
Again, AT&T sucks, don't do it. Verizon = good. | |
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04-21-2008, 08:23 PM
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| What about Sprint? | |
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04-21-2008, 08:35 PM
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| I have Sprint and live in MA/go to MIT a lot/ will probably be there next year. I never have service problems with Sprint, except one little spot along the infinite :-). But I find Sprint really great. We should call each other :-P I think I get free calls to other Sprint users. | |
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04-23-2008, 05:11 PM
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| all the cool kids use t-mobile | |
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