Hey all,

I'm going to be getting a new phone soon and am debating carriers. I've already settled on an iPhone, so the question is between Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T. My question to y'all is, what are your experiences?

My company has an AT&T corporate account, so the easiest thing for me would be to just get on the company account - AT&T bills them directly. But everyone I know in NYC says AT&T has a lot of random dropped calls and poor voice quality. The consensus among my many AT&T iPhone friends is that you can't use it for reliable voice, but data is fine.

Verizon is great at marketing itself as the best network, but my boyfriend has them and he has to stand by a window in our apartment to use his phone. Still, if they could be convinced to give me a Network Extender for free or cheap, I think they'd be my preference.

Finally, Sprint. A friend has them (he lives in Brooklyn) and says the service is fine. But I was reading a lot of complaints about their data network - apparently it's overtaxed so people get a lot of slow data speeds.

If I choose Verizon or Sprint, I can expense my phone bill (for now). I lean to them anyway since they will unlock the iPhone so I can use a different carrier's SIM when overseas. (I say I can expense for now because my firm might start making everyone get on the AT&T plan, in which case I'd keep my current number and get a separate work phone with AT&T - if they're truly that bad.)

I have had T-mobile for the last 7 years, and they've been surprisingly good both here and Chicago. Good voice quality, few if any dropped calls, decent coverage.

Thanks for any insights.