Well like I said no other carrier out here has anything like practical coverage. T mobile comes closest but the work phone is on there. And at home it only functions on a particular part of my front porch. And there are big chunks of my sales territory where it’s a brick.
There are a couple of those discount resellers. But they all rent space on Sprint and AT&T. Neither of which are usable out here. Work had to switch our phones from AT&T to T Mobile because it was impossible to do our jobs (100% of which require the phone) out here and some other outlying areas.
That’s the entire idea with GSM and it tends to be how phones work in other countries. But despite legal changes intended to create that in the US it doesn’t ever seem to come about. Locking phones to carriers has been various kinds of not allowed for decades but here we are.
