You didn't post Sprints voice coverage area.
Like I said above. I think this coverage matters more right now. Looks pretty damn good to me. I think when coverage area is so close, the phone does matter. All things being nearly equal with coverage area people will shop for the phone they like. Most consumers don't even check consumer satisfaction ratings either. They go with the phone they like provided they get good coverage.
I don't think your point stands in this case.
Since you are showing all CDMA coverage in North America I will tell you that VZW and Sprint use the exact same network. Same technology, and for the most part, have almost identical device lineups.
What this map doesnt tell you is that it includes the iDen network that used to belong to Nextel. If you have a sprint phone, you do ot get all of this. iDen and CDMA are completely incompatibal. This is why they are losing customers at a 6 to 1 rate to AT&T and Verizon Wireless.
Sprint's CEO Dan Hesse on the 2nd quarter earnings statement:
“In the quarter, we saw the best retail net add performance in the past seven quarters. We also saw the best quarterly sequential change in CDMA net add performance in two years, ARPU that has been stable for six consecutive quarters, continued prepaid growth, and improved sequential Adjusted Operating Income Before Depreciation and Amortization* (Adjusted OIBDA),” Hesse said. “However, we are not satisfied that we lost a quarter of a million customers in the quarter.”
http://investors.sprint.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=127149&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1313470&highlight=
It was there best net add performance in 2 years and still they lost 250,000 customers???!!!???!!!
That might have been the funniest thing I read this year.
In short, if your service is working fine for you now, or if you are just fine with what you recieve... Then whatever I guess.
But if you want service, never had service, or need better service, VZW is the CRYSTAL clear option.
Steel Dog... Your obviously happy with your sprint service. Again, this might be due to the fact that they are just offering the cheapest price on the exact plan you want. Just remember that companies like T-Mobile and Sprint have to blind you with pricing and pretty phones to get people to sign up in the first place. That's why they exist. Sprint launches the Palm Pre before it completes full testing so they can beat VZW and get some cheap activations. T-Mobile does the same with Android. Then when issues start to mount they re-actively fix whatever the issue is and it costs them millions on the back end. But atleast whatever customers they have duped into service are now under contract. It's a huge snowball they never fix because they have to keep up.
Deanna, Sorry about your issue. Unfortunately, I have worked for many wireless companies and all have had to give that exact same news to their customers. You just had to hear it from VZW and it upset you. I get that. AT&T did it when they changed networks entirely around 2002. Then again when the original unlimited plan expired around 2005. Then again when the outdated Cingular plan structure expired in 2007. Not to mention the fact that all iPhone plans were initially sold with the data plan bundled into the price yet no one was told to tell the customer that. Not to blame AT&T... It's just that all carriers have this problem. Please try not to hate just one because that is where it happened to you at.
And I can create random names such as "3G" that means nothing to the average consumer. 
