Nathan Parker
EF1
Now that I've finished my PhD program, I'm probably going to be doing some more travel across the US (plus I am headed to Israel next year).
Since storm chasers cover a lot of ground across the US, I'm curious as to the current state of the cell phone providers in the US.
Right now, I'm on T-Mobile sharing a Magenta Max 55+ plan with my mother, two lines for $90. T-Mobile has pretty fast 5G UC speeds around town, and only one dead zone inside a rural grocery store.
We'll keep T-Mobile at least through our Israel trip since I've heard T-Mobile has seamless international roaming, plus the in-flight Wi-Fi might be a good perk (unless there are more cost-effective international roaming options, I do have $50 credit at ALOSIM).
When we get back, if we don't need the "Max" perks, we could drop down to Magenta 55+ for two lines for $70.
However, after I get back from Israel, if I do any traveling across the US, I wonder if T-Mobile has beefed up their nationwide coverage, or if Verizon or AT&T is still better (would I hit a lot of dead zones with T-Mobile?).
We're AMAC members, so we could do an MVNO such as PureTalk pretty affordable which uses AT&T's towers.
I was using about 20GB per month, but lately I'm averaging under 2GB/month. Mother was on a flip phone and I just now moved her to an iPhone. Even then she's averaging less than 2GB/month. When I'm on my iPhone off of Wi-Fi, I'm mainly checking emails or a couple of work sites or a couple of weather apps, nothing too data-intensive. Now that I have better home Internet, my need for mobile hotspot hasn't been quite as used as much either.
In your travels across the US during storm chases, which carriers have you found to be the most overall reliable, and which cell phone plans have you found to be cost-effective for US travel and storm chasing?
Thanks!
Since storm chasers cover a lot of ground across the US, I'm curious as to the current state of the cell phone providers in the US.
Right now, I'm on T-Mobile sharing a Magenta Max 55+ plan with my mother, two lines for $90. T-Mobile has pretty fast 5G UC speeds around town, and only one dead zone inside a rural grocery store.
We'll keep T-Mobile at least through our Israel trip since I've heard T-Mobile has seamless international roaming, plus the in-flight Wi-Fi might be a good perk (unless there are more cost-effective international roaming options, I do have $50 credit at ALOSIM).
When we get back, if we don't need the "Max" perks, we could drop down to Magenta 55+ for two lines for $70.
However, after I get back from Israel, if I do any traveling across the US, I wonder if T-Mobile has beefed up their nationwide coverage, or if Verizon or AT&T is still better (would I hit a lot of dead zones with T-Mobile?).
We're AMAC members, so we could do an MVNO such as PureTalk pretty affordable which uses AT&T's towers.
I was using about 20GB per month, but lately I'm averaging under 2GB/month. Mother was on a flip phone and I just now moved her to an iPhone. Even then she's averaging less than 2GB/month. When I'm on my iPhone off of Wi-Fi, I'm mainly checking emails or a couple of work sites or a couple of weather apps, nothing too data-intensive. Now that I have better home Internet, my need for mobile hotspot hasn't been quite as used as much either.
In your travels across the US during storm chases, which carriers have you found to be the most overall reliable, and which cell phone plans have you found to be cost-effective for US travel and storm chasing?
Thanks!