<p>Which companies work best @ MIT? </p>
<p>Specifically, please compare T-Mobile and Verizon for me. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>T-mobile is crap. Verizon isn't much better.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>lol get me in on this =] i'd love to know.</p>
<p>i wanna know too....what about AT&T?!?</p>
<p>Search the forum -- this question comes up every year.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Mollie is right. It's a crapshoot.</p>
<p>Just don't pick T-Mobile.</p>
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<p>I used to have AT&T. It was <em>horrible</em>. Most of the people that I know with AT&T have had the same experience.</p>
<p>Now I have Verizon, and it works pretty well.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Again, AT&T sucks, don't do it. Verizon = good.</p>
<p>What about Sprint?</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>all the cool kids use t-mobile</p>