More bars in more places, my left foot.
Mar. 4th, 2010 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
backermanAT&T's coverage map for Washington and Oregon:
Doesn't look too shabby... except that's got 2G thrown in, which is sloooooow and doesn't let you use voice and data at the same time (one of the things they've been plugging.) Let's see what it's like with only the coverage you care about:
If it's not 3G, it's not coverage. The first commercial UMTS installation happened over eight years ago, you recto-cranially-inverted people at AT&T. You have no excuse.
Updated after the cut.
Update: (N.B. I had to stitch some of these together from multiple images because the map server didn't show a large enough area at one time. Also, the boundaries of the non-EVDO/non-UMTS (as applicable) service are still semi-present because the original images were JPEGs, not PNGs, and I can't be bothered to make the Photoshopping perfect when it still tells me what I want to know.)
Verizon's EVDO (Mobile Broadband):
Sprint's EVDO:
The loser, T-Mobile's UMTS:
Amazingly enough, USCC finally realized that it's the 21st century now and we want EVDO. They just recently started turning on 3G in the northwest, and are moving much faster than TMo, so maybe there'll be something worthwhile in a few months.
Doesn't look too shabby... except that's got 2G thrown in, which is sloooooow and doesn't let you use voice and data at the same time (one of the things they've been plugging.) Let's see what it's like with only the coverage you care about:
If it's not 3G, it's not coverage. The first commercial UMTS installation happened over eight years ago, you recto-cranially-inverted people at AT&T. You have no excuse.
Updated after the cut.
Update: (N.B. I had to stitch some of these together from multiple images because the map server didn't show a large enough area at one time. Also, the boundaries of the non-EVDO/non-UMTS (as applicable) service are still semi-present because the original images were JPEGs, not PNGs, and I can't be bothered to make the Photoshopping perfect when it still tells me what I want to know.)
Verizon's EVDO (Mobile Broadband):
Sprint's EVDO:
The loser, T-Mobile's UMTS:
Amazingly enough, USCC finally realized that it's the 21st century now and we want EVDO. They just recently started turning on 3G in the northwest, and are moving much faster than TMo, so maybe there'll be something worthwhile in a few months.
