Cuca

Which companies work best @ MIT?

Specifically, please compare T-Mobile and Verizon for me.

Thanks!

Olo

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.

locke

lol get me in on this =] i'd love to know.

akybaky

i wanna know too....what about AT&T?!?

molliebatmit

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.

Olo

Mollie is right. It's a crapshoot.

Just don't pick T-Mobile.

jessiehl

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.

over30

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.

cellardweller

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.

altstarr

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.

jzzsxm

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.

neuron

What about Sprint?

lalaloo6

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.

River Phoenix

all the cool kids use t-mobile