Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Finding Cellular Service

A gentleman at work stopped by my desk today to say he was going out of town for Christmas, and wondered how far he could go and still get service for the “on-call” phone. I thought I would pass along some links to you, the reader, in case you ever need to 1) figure out if you are going to have coverage where you are traveling, or 2) figure out how the hell you can get away from everyone and legitimately say, “I guess I didn’t have cell coverage down there.”

Below are links to check the coverage area for four major cellular carriers:

  • AT&T
  • Sprint/Nextel
  • T-Mobile
  • Verizon

    You may also want to know if you can use your phone while traveling abroad. You will need to know what digital signal your phone operates on, such as CDMA or GSM. You should be able to find this information by model number on your provider’s website. The links below will take you to the overview of international services for each provider. If you are lucky, you will receive a phone call from an 11-year-old in Missouri, at 4:30 a.m. in Italy, wanting help identifying the transitive verbs in a sentence.

    International service information:

  • AT&T
  • Sprint/Nextel
  • T-Mobile
  • Verizon
  • 2 comments:

    Larry Slobodzian said...

    That is grest information. Thanks!

    Larry Slobodzian said...

    I meant to say great information.