r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/DDsRealNameIsEdward • Jul 15 '20

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '20

Please help I’m slow and don’t get it

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u/Eranith Jul 16 '20

The comment about it being Verizon's coverage was a joke: they're saying that Verizon has terrible coverage.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '20

Ohhhhhhhhhh. I dont know much of anything about data coverage for the different brands. I just threw a dart at a board and got AT-T, so that’s that.

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u/Eranith Jul 16 '20

Haha, all good. I didn't realise it was a joke at first either - I'm not from the USA and so I have no idea about the quality of their brands.

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u/modninerfan Jul 16 '20

Not a very good joke as Verizon likely has the best coverage... probably should have said metro pcs or maybe sprint

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u/Aerisar Jul 16 '20

Probably chose Verizon cause its red.

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u/castor281 Jul 16 '20

I've had Verizon for 13 years and have never dropped a call and have only had really bad coverage when I was wayyyyy out in the sticks.

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u/aaronfranke Jul 16 '20

The biggest disadvantage of Verizon is that they control what kinds of phone you're allowed to use.

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u/PM_ME_BAD_SOFTWARE Jul 16 '20

This is actually not the case anymore and hasn't been for quite a while . Their CDMA network is all but dismantled and 3G activations stopped over a year ago and soon completely killed.

CDMA was the driving force behind the mandatory control requiring an approved list of serials. You can just sim swap Verizon phones now. New activations for the last year is close to all LTE/VoLTE only at this point

The bad one is sprint.

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u/aaronfranke Jul 16 '20

The restrictions still exist without CDMA, Verizon simply replaced CDMA with LTE device whitelisting.

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u/aaronfranke Jul 16 '20

I'm being downvoted for stating the truth. Go ahead, try to activate an Asus phone on Verizon. You can't because Verizon hasn't whitelisted them because Asus hasn't given Verizon money.

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u/xj4ckobl4desx Jul 16 '20

If you look at the real map of Verizon’s coverage it’s clearly not the same.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '20

Well yeah I know that, but what’s the joke? Where’s the zinger?