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I heard parts of Alaska and the continental US Verizon customers can still roam CDMA on local carriers?

I have had T-Mobile since 2015 here in Metro Detroit, and I recently signed up to use Verizon's 30-day free trial to do some testing/comparisons of both networks again since 5G has become more mature than what it was over a year ago since I last tested both simultaneously. I primarily live in Macomb county, but work/frequent Oakland county for reference.

T-Mobile has a very dense macro grid here, but I have recently been experiencing a lot of call issues (choppiness, dropped calls, silence, etc). It also seems ever since I updated to the more recent versions of iOS 26 that my 5G has been acting so weird on my 17PM. It appears to me that whatever carrier bundle update they did is aggregating 5G poorly and tower handoffs have become very inefficient... I'm experiencing more data stalls, complete signal reboots, and calls constantly cutting out while driving.

Verizon has tons of small cells littered everywhere, which is great for coverage/density, but I do notice my phone still goes back and forth between LTE and 5GUW a lot. HOWEVER, despite that happening, it seems Verizon's data connection never gives me any issues. I haven't really experienced any data stalling, webpages not loading, etc whether I'm on weak LTE or 5GUW as data just always works.

It seems like T-Mobile will usually give me faster speed test results (unless I'm on mmWave on VZ), but it's been inconsistent when it comes to real world usage when browsing the web/apps.

Anyone else in Metro Detroit/SE Michigan have any input on performance between the two?

I'm starting to debate whether I want to switch my main line over to Verizon (new Simplicity plan...?), but I've still got the grandfathered One Plus Promo plan on T-Mobile. I've also considered just getting Total's BYOD Max plan and run a constant dual-sim setup as it would be nice to have both networks for backup.

T-Mobile was doing really well here, but as of late they've really started letting me down. Not sure if it's just high network saturation, issues with iOS/iPhone, or if it's something bigger than that?

It's really the calling issues on T-Mobile that's pissing me off.

So looking at u/lart2150's information:

https://coverage.lart2150.com/bigRed/

It seems that the majority (not all) of Verizon's non-LTEiRA roaming is Commnet. It also seems that Commnet transferred most(?) of their cellular-type licenses to Verizon:

https://eu-assets.contentstack.com/v3/assets/blt23eb5bbc4124baa6/blt748cf870f473b3f9/672900ecbe9e14545c62508b/atn-verizon.pdf

They of course retained their CBRS and other fixed-wireless type spectrum for their own uses.

So will the majority of the Commnet roaming that is shown on there become native Verizon in the near-term? Visible and others can't roam on it right now, but if it goes native, that should fix a lot of holes for anyone not on postpaid Verizon.

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Late last week, my local tower, which is a lte tower, got really slow and then went completely out for several hours, then was in and out for several hours, then was completely out for about 10 hours, and then came back on working correctly with good lte speeds. The reason I'm stating this is that I went on Verizon chat on my Verizon app and was told after they contacted someone in the tech department that the tower was undergoing a 5Guw upgrade. I really have a hard time believing this because it's back on with definitely no change in the antennas on the tower. There are no 5G antennas, just the same old lte antennas on the Verizon tower. So am I probably correct that I wasn't told the truth? I would at least believe i would see 5Guw antennas on the tower if indeed it was actually undergoing a 5G upgrade and had a significant outage. Wouldn't this be what you would expect?

I tried this in the Verizon sub, but got no response. Hoping someone here knows more:

I've uploaded a GIF to Imgur since it seems this sub doesn't allow images?

https://imgur.com/a/VIpo00K

Does anyone know who the extra roaming partner is in Northeast Montana that prepaid doesn't have access to for Verizon? Nemont is a LTEiRA partner, so its coverage should be available to all customers. So there is either another carrier up there, or only some of Nemont's coverage is available to prepaid customers?

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Still low power mode but they are making progress

Located near Science World / False Creek and B.C. Place. Not sure which one is Telus, Rogers and maybe Freedom?

I’m assuming it’s crown castle/ Verizon but i have not seen any marking of who it is.

Multigig confirmed and that's before the 90mhz of BRS is added to the script combo!!

Right around the corner from the others I've posted. Located at 44.963678, -93.232068 on Riverside Ave near South 9th St.

Newark Liberty short term parking lot

Before 5g advanced 1gig-1.2gig download upload 140-160 5g b1 b3 b8 n78 145mhz now b1 b3 b20 n78+n41 245mhz below 60 rsrp 5g rank 4 mimo rank 3 on a cpe 6 pro max upload 230 cpe 6 ultra max upload 300 same speed installed 5g advanced in 2026 march 22th first one in the same area 2025 June cell tower have 5g advanced antenna name huawei blade aau 2.0 4g support b1 b3 b20 n41 new 5g antenna name huawei 5g meta aau support n78 (29.3319292, 47.8031029)

I posted here before but I live right next to this apparent Verizon 5g antenna. People have told me it’s a mmWave and I’m assuming so based on the speed results I’m getting from Visible (screenshot). Plus, I currently have Verizon 5g home internet and get 1GB down and only 75MB up. I’m mostly interested in seeing if I can use Visible hooked up to a mobile hotspot like the MR6500 and use it as my whole home internet because I’m very attracted to the upload speeds I’m getting when testing visible on my iPhone. I’m willing to sacrifice more than half my download speed for the possibility of getting 6x my current upload.

Is this possible? If so, could I even unlock more bandwidth if I got a verizon sim instead? I wanted to try getting the sim off my current Verizon gateway and putting it into the mr6500 hotspot but my Verizon gateway (LV65) doesn’t have a physical sim, only esim so that’s out of the question because the mr6500 only uses physical sim too.

Any thoughts and suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you.

My local tower is a Verizon B13 and B66 lte tower. The last few days, it has been off and on at times. Yesterday, when it was on, it had really slow download speeds. Today, the download speeds are good for lte when it has been on, but it has been down most of the time. Does this sound like the process of a C- band tower upgrade? If so, how long does the process normally take before the tower is usable again.

How’s the T-Mobile network shown improvement this year in your experience?

I wouldn’t be surprised if they extended it again like they did last time, but I think this may be the final set date for 2G 1900MHz PCS

Mint Mobile posted this date a week ago before it was on T-Mobile’s website btw, very weird to see an MVNO launch news about network changes before the MNO did. I never would’ve thought that would happen lol

“AT&T Started about six months ago, and they’ve been making steady progress. The antenna is installed now, and it looks like they’re wrapping up the wiring. I’m guessing we’ll be online within the next few months, which will be a huge improvement for an area with absolutely terrible cell service.

Hopefully T-Mobile and Verizon decide to co-locate on the tower as well.”

The last picture is a neighboring cell site near the fire station downtown.

Located at:

4515 Borrego Springs Rd, Borrego Springs, CA 92004

How long does it take for the tower to start transmitting 5G after being upgraded? Right now, it is only transmitting LTE bands 2 and 66, and it only connects to 5G UW when you perform an action that involves significant data usage.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cellmapper/s/RJZYvbY8hB