Wireless phone companies in the United States must now provide more detailed coverage and rate maps, plus they must give new customers a 14 day period to try out their new service to see if the geographic coverage is suitable. In the past the phone companies published maps that would show full state or regional coverage when, in fact, there were large mappable holes in many areas. Then they would charge large fees to customers who terminated their contracts because of inadequate service availability.
Read more at
USA Today and at the
Santa Fe New Mexican
# posted by MapWatch @ Monday, July 26, 2004
