Cell Phone Coverage

[bonefish]

I'm an ATT customer right now, but I travel in a lot of areas in the midwest where it doesn't work at all. Thinking of switching to Verizon, but I'm curious what the reception is on the west end of the Lake(north of cook)and near the Tower area. Oddly enough, both places have been areas that my ATT reception has been pretty good. Just what I don't want - better phone reception while on vacation than while I'm working!

[shamrock7]

ATT has a tower in the Frazer Bay area so you should have acceptable coverage over most of the lake. But then if you don't want coverage, just turn it off. That actually works better than poor service.

[StillFishin']

I have Venison and it is not good on the west end. Check out the coverage maps on the celphone's websites. Since the

Frazer Bay tower went up I think most AT&T costumers have been pleased.

StillFishing'

[delcecchi]

In addition to the Frazier bay tower, there is tower in cook that used to be cellular one but now is att. Tmobile roams on the ATT network on the lake, if you have a 850 MHz phone.

[SledNeck]

i see there is 3g coverage for at&t now on the lake...

[Steve Foss]

I have Venison and it is not good on the west end.

I have venison, too, and it tastes just as good on the west end as it does on the east end. Sorry.

That being said, my Verizon service is good on the east end but not good on the west end.

[lkvrmln-NilesBay]

Verizon is spotty on the lake...though, I do get fairly good reception in the cabin in Niles Bay. I believe a new tower was put up near Angora for Verizon. It has certainly helped the reception in Cook and on 24...need to get Verizon on the Fraser Bay tower and then I could ditch my land line.

[upnorth]

Overall in NE MN AT&T is better than Verizen. I worked for a year for a Power Coop in the area and Verizen kept trying to sell us phones and promising better coverage, but off the main hwys Verizen fades pretty fast. AT&T is the best bet in the area. They gave me a Verizen Blackberry at first and had to switch cuz it was so bad here in Chisholm, get called from work and had to wonder around the yard to find a decent signal.

[bonefish]

Thanks guys. Looks like if I want my phone for safety reasons on the west end, I'll be sticking with ATT for at least one more 2 year tour.

[muskie-mike]

I have an apple IPAD and it works on the 3G network at my cabin on Fectos pt at speeds up to 2 meg. The speed varies a lot,I don't know why. Also got rid of my land line and went with ATT GO PHONE for $100 a year. At 10 cents a minute that's 1000 minutes a year,plenty for me..

[delcecchi]

Thanks guys. Looks like if I want my phone for safety reasons on the west end, I'll be sticking with ATT for at least one more 2 year tour.

You can go tmobile. And no 2 year contract. They have a good pay as you go plan also.

[chucker1101]

I carry both my work phone and personal phone on the lake. Work is AT&T, personal phone is Verizon. So i can compare the two side-by-side pretty regularly.

AT&T is hands down better than Verizon now. I get 3G AT&T service consistently. Verizon is difficult, and their map of coverage on their website isn't accurate at all. I don't believe it takes into account terrain.

I've got contract with Verizon, unfortunately, until Fall 2011. I plan on changing my personal to AT&T as soon as i can.

[PSU]

Without reading through all of the threads, I assume Sprint is out of the equation for all parts of Vermilion? Starting with a new company in The Cities who uses Sprint.

[leech~~]

Without reading through all of the threads, I assume Sprint is out of the equation for all parts of Vermilion? Starting with a new company in The Cities who uses Sprint.

I called my wife from Burntside with Sprint last year? And I called her from Oak Isle on LOW as well. Huuum! That does kind of take away my excuses for fishing late and not calling!

[mbeyer]

Sprint is not so good for me. Poor signal on east end island.Occassional signal on Moccasin Point and in Tower. Decent signal in the middle of Big Bay.

[Slip Sinker]

I had Verizon 2 years ago and it only worked on the east end. AT&T works all over the lake including my cabin in Black Bay. The only other provider we have had any luck with is TMobile(my wife's phone). TMobile works on the west end for sure but we have never tried it on the east side. The only problem with AT&T is that their customer service is not good. I have to put up with it because their coverage is the best on the lake.

[delcecchi]

I had Verizon 2 years ago and it only worked on the east end. AT&T works all over the lake including my cabin in Black Bay. The only other provider we have had any luck with is TMobile(my wife's phone). TMobile works on the west end for sure but we have never tried it on the east side. The only problem with AT&T is that their customer service is not good. I have to put up with it because their coverage is the best on the lake.

Tmobile and ATT are both GSM. Tmobile roams on the ATT network from the towers near cook and near Frazier Bay. So they are basically the same coverage, at least as of last summer.