Talk:United States/@comment-26674008-20160303074940/@comment-26674008-20160324080010

It's tricky to describe AT&T's band 12 support. As far as I know they only operate the B and C blocks in the 700MHz range that comprise the band 17 and none of the A blocks that are band 12 only. But by agreement with the FCC they're going to refer exclusively as band 12 from now on, though band 17 devices remain compatible.

This is already cause of confusion. When the Galaxy S7 was released, Samsung only describe the band 12 support and not the band 17 support, which confused even phone blogs that asked where band 17 went So, I think it is better to simply say AT&T operates on bands 12 and 17.

Verizon is very much a prepaid option now, for some. Anyone with an iPhone 6S, no matter if international model, can activate a prepaid Verizon SIM. In the future, it maybe should be added to this page, as the CDMA problem will moot. As of now it is only the iPhone 6S but eventually Verizon may support lots of phones sold internationally. I had hopes the Galaxy S7 would be more universal, but it did not. Even if only iPhones ever meet the compatibility, after some years there will be large number of Verizon compatible phones.

I have my own many personal complaints on Verizon. But I will easily testify that for many rural areas, they are the only provider. AT&T covers very well, but over certain large regions of the country, AT&T has no native coverage and no prepaid coverage, only roaming on their partners for postpaid customers.