Best cell service providers, (areas covered)

Which is best depends on where you are and how much airtime you need. Overall, verizon has the best coverage, but there are locations that have ATT coverage and no verizon coverage. If your airtime usage is relatively low you can save a bundle using prepaid phones. Tracfone uses verizon, ATT, or sprint as the primary carrier depending on which phone you get and where you activate it. Page Plus uses the verizon network. Straight Talk is another big provider, don't remember which carriers they use. All 3 of these companies are owned by Carlos Slim. For a better list of the prepaids, look at the forums at howardforums.com. If you want you can read those forums until you're totally sick of it all. Like another post mentioned, we use 2 carriers: A tracfone on ATT and a Page Plus phone on verizon. We pay about $100/year for the Tracfone and $50/year for Page Plus, with pretty low airtime usage.