We are going to be in Hawaii this summer and would like to call forward to our cell. We have a choice of two phones. I would prefer to use the Nextel due to the unlimited incoming call feature, how is the Nextel service or is Verizon better?

I was able to use my Verizon on Maui and Kauai - changed my plan to the unlimited long distance, then changed it back since I don't use it at home.

I think they will be about the same. I know people here on Maui with both services. Everyone seems to have the same dead areas, no matter what carrier.

It sounds like you already have the service for each... why don't you take both of them?

Hi Puddy, I will take both, its just that I have unlimited incoming calls on the Nextel so I could call forward from my house

I will be in Hawaii this summer...does Sprint PCS work there?

Hawaii is part of the US and is included in nation cell plans. If your phone works in the US, it will work in Hawaii. We have GSM service through the networks built by AT&T and T-Mobile, AT&T has a TDMA overlay, CDMA via Verizon and Sprint, and iDEN through Nextel. If you have a different carrier you will roaming, just the same as you would be anywhere else in the US.

With any carrier there are going to be pockets of dead zones, especially when you get into more rural areas. On Maui the only difference I have noticed is that if your carrier uses TDMA technology you will have reception in Hana. There doesn't seem to be a GSM signal there.