my company got 20 or so of the verizon "push to talk" phones about the first of Oct. For a free trial". We got robbed(did I mention we got the phones and service for two weeks for FREE???)... Theoreticaly they will work anywhere you have home digital service. Didn't work that way for us. Don't get me wrong Verizon has the absolute best coverage I have found yet in WA, ID, OR, N.CA. So much so that it is worth putting up with the worst customer service and billing service anyone who works for our company has ever seen. ( mostly related to our account reps---). We will probably be switching to nextel for company phones soon, mainly because so many of our customers have them and management is sick and tired of fighting with Verizon, Not because of coverage. If we change I will keep my Verizon...there have been too many places I absolutley had to have it work...and it did