Very sneaky

I'm sure you're going to want to shut down this thread for me saying this, but I just read a Nielsen (Telephia) report from Dec. 08 that indicates Cricket in San Diego has a 4.48% dropped call rate. The Boost iDEN dropped call rate in SD in Dec. 08 was 2.70%.

Just the facts - Cricket has 66% more dropped calls than Boost in San Diego. I'd say Boost is superior to Cricket in So Cal (which I guess for you just means San Diego, unless you factor in the PEC for Metro. Metro has 113% more dropped calls than Boost in the LA market).
 
BOOST SUCKS, haha I'm on t-mobile, but guess what i'd take cricket any day of the week if i could.... I just get to good of a deal on t-mobile right now.... All though i have a cricket line to play with its not my primary nuraber, I never drop a call with them either all though i have with t-mobile, boost and sprint all the time.
 
I completely disagree with this and this makes me even more wary of these "ratings". I was a RF engineer for AT&T wireless, I have done contract work for multiple other cell phone carriers. I have used 10+ different phones on cricket, I have used CDMA and GSM networks, 2G and 3G.

Cricket is by far the best carrier in San Diego. In the 2 years I've used them exclusively, I have maybe dropped 2 calls when I have over -100db signal strength. These results are bogus.

I am not happy with MetroPCS in LA, which I do use as PEC because my job requires me to travel to LA often. There is no carrier that compares to Cricket for call quality and dropped call ratio in San Diego. This is also Crickets home market and where the company is based out of.
 
By the way Cingular also used Telephia reports about dropped calls. We were not allowed to do any maintenance while they were doing drive testing. We would use those Telephia ratings to advertise. Truth of the matter is we knew we were some of the worst with dropped calls, but as long as everything worked for the 5 days they were doing drive testing we didn't care.
 
cricket has claimed to be #1 or #2 in successfull call completion rate in every market they operate in, and honestly i have to say i believe them. i've said this before, but i have had cricket since dec 05, i use my phone for an average of somewhere near 2000 minutes a month and i have experienced less than 5 dropped calls on my end... on the other hand other people have dropped off at a much higher rate...
you can also add that nextel's iden network has been operating at reduced preformance since the rebanding began and i don't think it ever really recovered... causing them to lose a lot of postpaid customers... i believe this is a key factor in the reasoning behind boost unlimited moving to iden so that sprint can generate some revenue off that network... it just sickens me that they are asking the american taxpayers to subsized it by calling it a national emergency responder network or whatever....
 
chicago is an AWS market.

i also use t-mobile. i have it for blackberry. also my dealer line doesn't get long distance so on the rare occasion i need to originate a long distance call or when i go on vacation i use my t-mobile line. Cricket has FAR superior coverage within the stated coverage area than t-mobile or sprint (used to work for cdma side), i cannot directly comment on the dropped calls on t-mobile because i use only under 100 minutes a month on that plan, but sprint here is terrible. if cricket had blackberry service and offered data roaming i would probably only use cricket. cause it would beat carrying two phones...
 
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