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wa0mqe wrote:
wip, the Verizon 4G card should revert to 3G automatically when 4G is not available. You mentioned which you had 3 years ago, it should have been 3G, providing you were using a Verizon data phone, or a Verizon data modem.

To answer your question about Verizon in the lower 48, just like all the other carriers, they lie about their coverage. Their coverage maps are apparently a wild a@%ed guess. For example I can tell you their map shows solid coverage in most areas in Texas, yet even with the map showing excellent coverage it's not true.

I don;t believe they "lie." Verizon's coverage maps include the following:

These Coverage Locator maps depict predicted and approximate wireless coverage. The coverage areas shown do not guarantee service availability, and may include locations with limited or no coverage. Even within a coverage area, there are many factors, including customer’s equipment, terrain, proximity to buildings, foliage, and weather that may impact service. Some of the Coverage Areas include networks run by other carriers, the coverage depicted is based on their information and public sources, and we cannot ensure its accuracy.

Moreover, they use a mathematical prediction model, not unlike the one that the US copyright laws suggest be used to determine if a household is eligible for Distant Network Service.

We have traveled extensively and use a Verizon air card. I have not yet failed to have coverage when their coverage may said i would. I have, on occasion, had coverage when the map suggested that i wouldn.t. Sometimes, the coverage has not been what I would want; this weekend, we are on a very busy tower. Also note, i have only traveled once, in 2006, out west with the air card, But, the above statements are true about that trip.

Tom