Alaskan Camper Rentals

HAVE VERIZON NATIONWIDE IN CA WILL WE HAVE COVERAGE IN ALASKA WITH FREE ROAMING AND LONG DISTANCE?

TRAVELING IN MOTORHOME AND COSIDERING CHANGING TO
VERIZON BROADBAND WILL IT WORK?

Public Comments

1. only if alaska has the broadbank capacity.

if you go to the verizon web page and link on the map of alaska it will show you the good and weak spots.

I worked for the cell phone companies and alaska and north maine has some real crappy service.

2. You'll have coverage in Alaskan cities of any size and along the road system between the larger cities and towns. But there will be very limited coverage in Northern BC and Yukon Territory (just around the larger towns) and for the first 500 miles in Alaska.

The developed areas of the National Parks like Denali, Kenai Fjords, and Portage Glacier have coverage but further into the park gets spotty. And if you fly into mroe remote parks or off-the-road towns, some of them have no coverage or their own independent system that doesn't allow calls to be billed through the national carriers. But you're not getting your motor home to any of those places.

Mostly: in town there will be coverage. Major highways will have okay coverage. Rural routes will have very spotty coverage outside of any towns.

Coverage maps from your provider are very optimistic for Alaska. They show coverage along all the highways which is not yet true, but it is getting closer all the time.

3. Verizon works everywhere in Alaska that has cellular service. ACS Alaska, Alaska's largest telecommunications company, uses ONLY verizon as it's roaming partner. Your phone will work in the very few spots that AT&T phones do not.

There is no 3G coverage in most of Alaska. Your internet will work at most at dial-up speed. When I use an AT&T laptop cellular card in Alaska it is PAINFULLY slow.

If you need coverage "everywhere" in Alaska you'll have to get a satellite phone but there is cellular service in most cities.