voicestream may not have a center in every city in the country, but with the exception of a lot of rural areas that don't have digital coverage (southern oregon being one that hurts for me), voicestream has agreements with lots of other carriers.
If you get their north america neighborhood plan, it includes no roaming charges and no long distance charges. Even though they don't have service in california, i've used my phone without problem in LA, san francisco and oakland.
currently, i'm paying $90/month for 900 minutes, which includes all the roaming and long distance i can poke a stick at.
>My experience with both US West (now Qwest) and GTE here in Oregon is that it is a huge pain to get installed and configured correctly (plus Qwest now doesn't provide static IPs by default and you have to special order them)
that's the problem with using the default isp's for each service. if you set up with any other local isp, you have full control of IP's, etc. that, and it's a hell of a lot easier to set up, especially over uswest.net, which uses PPP mode. Most local isp's in the portland area use bridging mode, which means all the config is done on the NIC, which makes it really easy to set up multiple IP's, or to set up a whole network behind a single IP, using NAT.
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voicestream may not have a center in every city in the country, but with the exception of a lot of rural areas that don't have digital coverage (southern oregon being one that hurts for me), voicestream has agreements with lots of other carriers. If you get their north america neighborhood plan, it includes no roaming charges and no long distance charges. Even though they don't have service in california, i've used my phone without problem in LA, san francisco and oakland. currently, i'm paying $90/month for 900 minutes, which includes all the roaming and long distance i can poke a stick at.
>My experience with both US West (now Qwest) and GTE here in Oregon is that it is a huge pain to get installed and configured correctly (plus Qwest now doesn't provide static IPs by default and you have to special order them)
that's the problem with using the default isp's for each service. if you set up with any other local isp, you have full control of IP's, etc. that, and it's a hell of a lot easier to set up, especially over uswest.net, which uses PPP mode. Most local isp's in the portland area use bridging mode, which means all the config is done on the NIC, which makes it really easy to set up multiple IP's, or to set up a whole network behind a single IP, using NAT.