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Stumbling upon Droid Life randomly after purchasing a Motorola DROID in late 2009, then setting out to learn everything he could about Android, Tim quickly became an integral part of the site's comment section. After quite some time of strictly commenting on Droid Life, Tim was offered an opportunity to write feature stories for the site, such as custom ROM overviews, as well as interviews with Android community members. Following success of those, Tim became a full time writer and editor for Droid Life, now spending his time on news articles, device reviews, producing videos, and much more. Tim currently resides in Portland, OR with his longtime girlfriend and two wonderful dog children (Loki & Thor). In his spare time, Tim enjoys playing guitar, drinking coffee, practicing photography, and destroying kids on Call of Duty.

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  • Still wish they’d spend some of the millions they invest in their network at filling in completely dead zones. I don’t care about 4G or 5G or XLTE, I just want some coverage!

    • I agree, there is one spot in the mountains North of me that I actually lost signal. It was only through a narrow valley, but I wish VZW would focus on completely blanketing all populated areas.

      • My biggest area that I gripe about is a 15-20 mile stretch of state highway, granted in a rural area, but still lots of people travel on it. I just hope my car never breaks down along it – as I wouldn’t be able to call anyone.

        • Yes, this exactly. The valley I mentioned has two small towns in it. I realize it is a low priority for VZW, but they should still focus on expanding their coverage as well as improving the already existing network.

        • A lot of it is political, many small and rural areas don’t approve of cell towers being installed.

    • Well everything is moving to LTE. so n point in trying to bring you 2G or 3G coverage. Also maybe Verizon doesn’t maybe the spectrum in your area. Also maybe your local government is being dicks about allowing Verizon to put up new towers. This is very common. Local government do not want ugly towers in the area still somehow demand coverage in said area,

  • Higher speeds means more data used quicker. Higher cell phone plan. Yuck!!!

  • What’s the point of having super fast data speeds if you charge your subscribers too much to use it?

    • Then use a different carrier. i don’t get complainers. Complaining won’t lower prices so go to a carrier that has them.

    • too much to use? my plan for a family of 4 is cheaper than T-Mobile. and a lot better coverage (trust me, I’ve tried out T-Mobile several times).

  • Lewiston? Seriously Verizon? How about patching the dead zone at my house in Portland?

    • Do you have to pay Verizon an extra $20 or are you one of the lucky ones?

      • Negative, I went back under contract in October so I avoid the fee for 2 years. I’m paying $68/mo after tax for unlimited data, unlimited text, and 450 minutes.

          • But that’s best case scenario. There’s no way you’re hitting that every place you go. I know this from experience

          • Same with all carriers, some will be 100+ and others will be <1. Where Verizon has band 4 and band 13, speeds are usually very good in the 50-75Mpbs range, but lots of band 13 only sites are <10mbps and some congested areas like my college campus are usually around 0.50Mbps during the day.

          • I know from experience when I was on Verizon’s Network I will go one place and barely struggle to get to get 10 up and 10 down and then travel down the street less than 5 miles and get a hundred megabytes per second. Yes it also definitely depends on the time of day as well however sometimes I would travel in certain areas of the city where I live or the surrounding areas and would still get a very strong reading depending how many people are using that specific Tower at the same time of course.

          • I experience the same thing with T-Mobile here as well, some places 100Mbps+ and others 5-15Mbps

          • This is what I almost always get in my usual places. The OPs 100+ is great, and I wish I would see speeds like that even occasionally. But, luckily I almost always have at least as good a signal as this screenshot shows.

        • How do you get 450 minutes? They tell me that 700 minutes is the minimum for Nationwide Plans.

          • 450 minutes was the base plan, I’ve had it since around 2009 or so.

          • So apparently that’s for individual lines whereas I’m under the family plan, even though the rest of my family switched to t-mobile. And I’ll lose my unlimited data if I switch from the family plan to the single line plan.

    • If it works with “XLTE”? Yes, band 4 has been in all Verizon phones for a few years now, and is one of the most common bands in the U.S.

    • It should it worked with the Moto Nexus 6 after it’s 2nd update

  • Idk if its just me but it seems like my Verizon Data speeds have slowed down. Web pages take longer to open and video streaming has really suffered. I am on the UDP so I hope that Im not being throttled.

    • Nope, I just posted a screenshot of me getting ~150Mbps down on Verizon on my UDP plan, and I had around 200GB used that month so far.

      • Your experiences don’t equate with everyone else. Where i live AT&T gets 40-70 down consistently but my friend lives in Detroit and he can’t get that 20% of the time.

      • Yes and YOU are part of the reason why they are getting slower speeds. Can’t wait until Verizon shitcans all of you UDP people.

        • *confused* I used 200GB and get 150Mbps down, so that alone proves I am not the reason.

          • People like you are. bandwidth is limited and you’re using way more than you should. no reason to use 200 GB on a friggen PHONE. Cellular is not mean to be regular internet. Get REAL internet. it’s call wi-fi it’s brand new invention you should try it.

          • You didn’t even read what I wrote, even hundreds of gigs is only using that tower for a few hours a month at full speed. Bandwidth is not as limited as carriers say they are, they would love for people to use hundreds of gigs if they pay for it, that’s why they sell home broadband routers…

          • Bandwidth is limited? Explain to me how.

            Oh, guess what, real internet isn’t available here, we only have DSL, it’s through ATT, it’s expensive, and it’s terrible. I pay less and get more, with my unlimited data plan sim in an LTE router.

            I’m tired of people like you defending the anti-consumer practices of companies that whine about how bandwidth is some finite resource, like they have to grow it in a field, all the while, posting record-busting profits every quarter. They don’t need defending, find something better to do with your time.

            I’m using a crapload of data, my record is 1 TB in a month, HOWEVER, I am courteous, and do it almost entirely at night, when everyone is asleep. I doubt that even matters, personally, but I do it. So yes, I am “Part of the Problem” but guess what, it has nothing to do with unlimited data users “Ruining it for everyone else” and everything to do with GREED and MONEY. Verizon thinks they made a mistake by having unlimited plans, because now they can’t price gouge people like me who were smart and got them early.

        • We’re not allowed to use the service we pay for? Maybe Verizon should add more bandwidth to meet the needs of the customers with whom which Verizon entered into service contracts. You’re blame is misplaced and you’re mad…about something else.

    • Some websites have really bumped up the ads and made loading them noticeably slower.

    • Verizon does not throttle UDP. You do get mobile data is a SHARED resource. the more people using it the slower ti will be. There is finite amount of bandwidth to go around.

  • I went to a Verizon store to see what it could cost to get something similar to what I have with T-Mobile. It was going to double the price and less coverage.

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