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#915215 - 12/05/14 02:24 PM Re: OP Cell phone coverage [Re: Timber]
STRIKE ZONE Offline
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Registered: 08/09/00
Posts: 12107
Loc: Hobart,Wa U.S.A
Verizon or bust.Good luck,

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#915217 - 12/05/14 02:32 PM Re: OP Cell phone coverage [Re: RB3]
Winterun Offline
Spawner

Registered: 11/07/02
Posts: 992
Loc: Tac/Puy
RB,
Verizon!!!

I don't have too many problems getting service out there. Seems the wife always get a text thru asking if I've drowned or not, I text back still swimming!!!

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#915218 - 12/05/14 02:35 PM Re: OP Cell phone coverage [Re: Winterun]
RB3 Offline
Repeat Spawner

Registered: 08/24/10
Posts: 1383
Yeah we will probably stay with them. I get highly annoyed by crappy customer service but I get to fish a lot more when the wife can periodically check my status.

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#915239 - 12/05/14 03:25 PM Re: OP Cell phone coverage [Re: RB3]
Steeldrifter Offline
Juvenile at Sea

Registered: 02/23/08
Posts: 176
Loc: Pierce county
Originally Posted By: RB3
Yeah we will probably stay with them. I get highly annoyed by crappy customer service but I get to fish a lot more when the wife can periodically check my status.


Even though not married anymore...........I prefer to turn my phone off while fishing except to take a picture.

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#915305 - 12/05/14 06:56 PM Re: OP Cell phone coverage [Re: RB3]
Salmo g. Offline
River Nutrients

Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 13521
Originally Posted By: RB3
Yeah we will probably stay with them. I get highly annoyed by crappy customer service but I get to fish a lot more when the wife can periodically check my status.


This does not seem like a good fishing lifestyle. By periodically, does she check on your status more than once a day? Once a weekend?

I went camping and hiking with a couple friends last summer. When there was cell service, they'd call their significant others 8 or 9 times a day. I think that's f'd. I mean, how connected does one need or want to be? They knew we'd be home late Sunday afternoon or so.

Before cell phones I told my wife that if I didn't show up by Monday morning it would be a good idea to send someone looking. Nowadays with cell phones I have found it useful to call after I'm done fishing and reach the freeway. I give her my ETA so she can plan for dinner to be ready when I get home. Checking in during the day should be an emergency. Checking in multiple times/day is indicative of excessive neediness IMO. Counseling may be advised.

Sg

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#915336 - 12/05/14 07:51 PM Re: OP Cell phone coverage [Re: Salmo g.]
RB3 Offline
Repeat Spawner

Registered: 08/24/10
Posts: 1383
She texts two times a day. Around when I told her I'd make it to the river and when I told her I'd be off of the river.

My wife fishes so she knows how it goes. She retires after September so from then on I'm usually solo.


Edited by RB3 (12/05/14 07:52 PM)

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#915339 - 12/05/14 08:00 PM Re: OP Cell phone coverage [Re: RB3]
dwatkins Offline
I'm Idaho!

Registered: 08/15/14
Posts: 3624
I'm keeping my ATT cause of being grandfathered in for unlimited data.
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#915377 - 12/05/14 11:44 PM Re: OP Cell phone coverage [Re: Salmo g.]
RobertF
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Originally Posted By: Salmo g.
I give her my ETA so she can plan for dinner to be ready when I get home.


rofl That's some old school [Bleeeeep!] right there!!!

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#915387 - 12/06/14 01:16 AM Re: OP Cell phone coverage [Re: ]
jason m Offline
Returning Adult

Registered: 05/27/07
Posts: 494
Loc: pierce county, WA
I just let her know when I'll be home so she has a samich ready for me, plated on her back so I can hit it, eat - then go to sleep while she processes the fish and tends to the chilrens'... cave man fist bump ^^









ps... god, I hope she never reads this... smile

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#915390 - 12/06/14 01:28 AM Re: OP Cell phone coverage [Re: jason m]
Speyguy Offline
Returning Adult

Registered: 07/09/01
Posts: 277
Loc: Bellingham
Verizon get's a signal almost out to Blue Dot, which was handy when friend's GPS quit working/AT&T didn't work much past PA

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#915840 - 12/16/14 03:41 PM Re: OP Cell phone coverage [Re: dwatkins]
bigb8bigfish Offline
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Registered: 03/10/01
Posts: 300
Loc: seattle,wa
I second keeping ATT. Haven't had problem getting thru out in the OP and at my age of hiking to get to my spots out there, family worry about me.
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