Best Cell Service on STX?

Pretty much consensus around here is T. You can go to their respective websites (T and S) and enter an STX zip code and see their coverage maps. T shows coverage island-wide. S has some gaps. That said, I have been impressed at the quality of S service out east. As for Innovative, I wouldn't trust them with my wireless service.

Thanks...it looks like only ATT has 4G coverage though according to the Sprint map?

Correct. No 4G from S. Can't comment on quality of T's 4G.

I've had sprint and Att, they coverage really seems about the same to me, but in the caribbean sprint has a problem with accts getting stolen, after the fifth time I gave up my 12 year old acct with them that had the dream plan. But if you keep your stateside sprint number (if you have sprint) there seems to be no problem with them being stolen.

Has anyone tried any of those cell phone boosters? If so, which ones and did that work? (Not interested in the ones you pay a monthly fee to)

Hiya, as someone who purchased an iPhone4S on S today, can you expand on these accts getting stolen? What do I need to look out for?

jbatl--Account/Number stealing happened to me several times in 2009. What happens is that while in a public place of some sort, someone with a special reader/device can pick up all of your phone's programming info. They can then program that info on a different phone and use it to call a variety of places (calls from my phone account were placed to Jamaica and some Eastern European countries) all at your expense, racking up giant bills. Sprint can reprogram the phone, however, the criminal only needs to call you back, text message, leave a voicemail and get all of your info again. Then you have to re-program. They gave me credit for the $900+ bill that was racked up, but short of getting a new number, Sprint (at least as of 2 years ago) had no way to fix the problem. I switched to AT&T because I didn't want to change my number (and I wanted an iphone).

It happens on Sprint because of their technology. GSM phones use SIM cards so if you have to have the physical SIM card in your phone to use the programming/account info.

It was happening quite a bit back then, not sure if the account stealing is presently still as rampart.

Edited to say: I don't know how you can avoid it. I was only in a couple of public places when it could have happened--2 very well-established restaurants or walking down the street to my car--who knows.