You should be able to get a new iPhone with Verizon every year as will if you want to.
Technically if you pay outright, you can get a new phone every week with Verizon.
Seems like a fault of yours. Carriers give out charts of there service areas. I personally have always asked for one when switching carriers. I know my daily commutes and spots I frequent. That is a problem you could have solved before even purchasing Sprint service. Also when in known bad coverage areas Sprint along with AT&T (not sure about Verizon) give you microcells which boost service in your home or office for free. Research can solve a lot of problems you're complaining about.
"Those who fail to plan plan to fail"
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All the research in the world doesn't help if what you're looking at is dead wrong.
If you'll look at the Sprint coverage area for Memphis and the surrounding areas, you'll see that everything is allegedly covered. There are no dead spots on the map.
It was still showing in the coverage area where I bought my house. Ha. Yeah right. Over half of the phone calls I ever got went straight to voicemail. If I was doing anything on my phone - YouTube, Internet, Emails - it went to voice mail. People just quit calling me and texted me instead asking me to call them because my service was so poor that I'd say 1 out of every 6 phone calls would actually go through.
It's not a plan to fail thing, it's a you get what you pay for with their cheap service. Yeah Verizon costs more but I've yet to find a dead spot - even in the Corn Patch which is about as remote as you can get. My closest neighbor is over half a mile away. And even better - if I'm streaming something on my phone like when I'm in the barn mucking stalls and I bring my iHome out, calls come through. Never did on Sprint.
As for the microcells, I'm sure they work, but you need to route them through your Internet which I don't have at home. I cant justify forking over $80 a month to Time Warner for Internet only which is what they were charging me every month until I told them to shove their modem up their a**.
And to keep this on track since it is the AT&T forum, the ex has AT&T and gets okay service at my house.