<p>I am going to UPark this fall and i want to get the best service possible.
For the past year and a have been on t-mobile and i live in PA in a relatively mountanous area like UPark, for a lack of better words.
The service has been terrible! And for the past year and a half i have been paying for a cell phone service that only gets service in my house and so i was finally able to terminate the contract early.
And now that i have to get a new phone, i have to consider where im gonna live for the next 4 years: University Park
I dont want to make the same mistake and pay for phone that doesnt get service anywhere.
I am torn between AT&T and Verizon.
Do you guys have any advice on which one works best over there.
Thanks</p>
<p>T-Mobile has terrible coverage. We bought a T-Mobile phone after the rep assured us we’d have great service, and we can’t get a signal anywhere within 4 or 5 miles of our home. </p>
<p>Our son has a Verizon phone (we started him out with a pre-paid Verizon phone while we saw how it would work on campus). He has never had any problems with it anywhere on campus. Virtually all of his friends on campus have Verizon, too - which means that he can call them for free, since they’re in-network. </p>
<p>I don’t know of anyone with AT&T on campus, so I can’t offer any insight there.</p>
<p>I live in State College and have AT&T; we have had no problems. (H works on campus and S lives there.) I think they are becoming more popular with the increase in iPhones. (We had Verizon until a year or so ago; the coverage was a little spotty.)</p>
<p>We have Verizon and have not had any problems. Most of S’s friends are also on Verizon which makes a basic family share plan a cost effective option. The plan gives us unlimited in-network calling and a nominal number of shared out-of-network minutes. S’s phone has an add-on text messaging plan which gives him unlimited in-network text messages and 1500 out-of-network (his gf is not on Verizon.)</p>
<p>We had Tmobile and my daughter got terrible reception up at UP. When our contract expired, we got Verizon and it is great up there. We are from the Philly area and my daughter drives along I-80 to come home and Tmobile lost it’s signal here and there along the route. With Verizon, I have checked myself on the ride up and could never find a dead spot. Also, as Karp4170 has found, most of my kids’ friends are on Verizon, so they can call as much as they want and it doesn’t count against our monthly minutes.</p>
<p>Anybody have Sprint? We still have a year on our family plan, so d is stuck with it for now.</p>
<p>I would also like to get some Sprint feedback. We have been on Sprint for years and would like to remain so. Also, the Sprint Pre is supposedly coming out in early June - would like to arm the young freshman with a quality phone with good coverage :o Sorry about that but I am wanting to get that phone too!</p>
<p>Sprint is fine. You get full bars just about everywhere. I have noticed, however, that inside buildings on campus you get almost no service, but that may be true of any network.</p>
<p>H has no problems from inside buildings with AT&T.</p>
<p>Sprint is actually generally bad around campus compared to Verizon & AT&T; DONT GET TMobile :P. I would say either Verizon (I have) or AT&T. One nice thing about Verizon though is a lot of kids up here are on Verizon and that means no minutes used when you call Verizon customers.</p>