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| reply to BiggA
Re: Prices listed are for broadband only device & plan said by BiggA:In non-Cricket areas, they are just another MVNO. And either way, they are never going to provide the same quality of service that Verizon or AT&T will.
how does metropcs compare? (I heard rumor att wants to buy them). I notice in Chicago area, they don't have home coverage, only "home extended" whatever it means. I also noticed they only sell phones, no hotspots or usb sticks. |
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| Cricket and MetroPCS have a joint roaming agreement and other than a couple exceptions do not encroach on each other's markets. The Chicago market is Cricket, therefore MetroPCS roams primarily on Cricket in Chicago.
For example:
New york
LA
Miami
Dallas
Atlanta
are metro pcs
Chicago
Houston
Baltimore/DC
Portland
St. Louis
Are Cricket
They both have several more markets than that. I just used those to illustrate. They could merge and have very little overlap (mostly in the philly area and vegas). |
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| Hmm interesting. However, cricket has more offers than metropcs, they also offer USB sticks with data only plans. |
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| reply to chgo_man99
MetroPCS is a joke. They work in the 'hood, and in major cities, but that's about it. Drive a few miles in any direction, and you're on Sprint. Drive a few more miles, and your roaming on Verizon, where you have to pay something like 20 cents a minute, although you get free texting. The data is the worst part, it's pretty much all 1xRTT, with a few areas with LTE. MetroPCS has a couple of markets with EVDO, but not my market. |
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