Miles wrote:

> Are you speaking of the San Francisco Bay Area? If so, I don't know
> where you live or travel, but obviously it's not Marin Country where
> they poop out just past the center of Fairfax and then nothing out to
> the coast. And I haven't found them at the coast traveling 10 miles
> north or south from Sir Francis Drake.

Unfortunately, the areas you're talking about, central and western Marin
(and then up the coast), had a great deal of AMPS coverage that has
presumably gone away, so the PagePlus and Verizon coverage will have
suffered, but it's still good except in the really unpopulated areas.

I was out in an area of Marin last weekend (Marin Headlands) where I
used to always have great AMPS coverage, but no more. I could get one
bar of Verizon outside, and there was no AT&T or T-Mobile coverage
(Sprint had coverage roaming onto Verizon). Actually if I went a mile
out to the beach from where we were staying, the coverage improved on
all carriers, the problem was I was in a valley surrounded on three
sides by high hills, one one side by open ocean.

> The only reason I'm using them at the moment is that my contract with
> ATT expired a year ago and after going through the number game found
> that with my limited number of calls I was paying 20¢/min. Now with a
> PPD card with TMO it's half that.

Of course I can't resist saying that with PagePlus you could get those
minutes at 5.3¢, and have coverage as good or better as you had before.