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In Reply to: Re: That map is Sprint's Coverage Map (m) posted by Gary Ray on March 05, 2001 at 10:08:11:
First of all, Sprint's coverage map is *not* indicative of GSM's US footprint in any way. Nor does that map include GSM roaming in any way shape or form. Did you mean to say analogue?
Sprint's roaming is via 800Mhz AMPS analogue, and not via GSM. No such phone exists today that will do both GSM and the flavor of CDMA that Sprint and other CDMA carriers use.
I've driven cross country more than a few times, and I will say that CDMA coverage is *much* spottier than GSM. Unfortunately with most GSM phones you can't roam on analogue. While the area is larger; when you're out of the area on GSM, you're incommunicado.
With a Sprint dualband phone you roam on the existing AMPS network which exists almost everywhere in the US. But comparing apples to apples, in places where GSM carriers have licenses, their coverage blows Sprint away.
On a recent drive from Nashville down to Corpus Christi, I had solid GSM coverage from Nashville all the way to the MS/Louisiana border. The only reason I had no coverage throughout most of Louisiana is because no GSM carrier is licensed there. The moment I had service in Lake Charles again I never left coverage until I reached home in Corpus Christi, and had I chosen to continue to the border, I again would never have lost coverage. Contrast this with Sprint, where I had coverage in metro areas, and then went back to analogue as I left those areas. I actually had three phones with me on this particular trip, one Sprint PCS, one Omnipoint (now voicestream) GSM and one US Cellular (don't even ask, they're awful) and the one I was able to use consistently even in bad coverage areas, was the GSM.
Jeff
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