+ 100 on Verizon's network
i had one of their silly flip-phones with 25 TV channels not too long ago
the only problem i ever had was that the battery would die after 40-45 minutes of channel-surfing & it was d@mn near impossible to connect the phone to a computer for updates, sync, etc.
i haven't visited NYC since 04 so i haven't much of an idea on how things are but my tMo devices were working fine whenever i needed them to.
with cellphone networks, there is just no given. What might work here will fail elsewhere and what works everywhere else doesn't work here