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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / ATT Wireless / April 2004cingular
did n-e one here when attws will be using cingulars towers? -kayla >did n-e one here when attws will be using cingulars towers? -kayla Tomorrow morning at 9:30 am. A guy in the mall told me. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - remove NONO from .NONOcom to reply In article <wMBjc.54593$um3.1052527@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>, > did n-e one here when attws will be using cingulars towers? -kayla You can roam on most of them now. > In article > <wMBjc.54593$um3.1052527@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>, > > > did n-e one here when attws will be using cingulars towers? -kayla > > You can roam on most of them now. minus the towers around my office. when I go into Manual selection, it sees the Cingular towers, but it says "No system access" >>>did n-e one here when attws will be using cingulars towers? -kayla >> >>You can roam on most of them now. > > minus the towers around my office. when I go into Manual selection, it sees > the Cingular towers, but it says "No system access" The roaming agreement that is now in place between ATTWS and Cingular allows ATTWS customers to roam on Cingular towers in areas where ATTWS doesn't have towers themselves. If there is an ATTWS tower nearby, the Cingular tower is going to reject your access. It wouldn't make any sense for ATTWS to allow you to access a competing tower in an area where ATTWS already provides coverage. The same is true for any carrier and any roaming agreement. Note that the roaming agreement in place between these companies has nothing to do with the proposed merger, which will take place many months from now (assuming that it does go through). > >>>did n-e one here when attws will be using cingulars towers? -kayla > >> [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > nothing to do with the proposed merger, which will take place many > months from now (assuming that it does go through). I do not get any ATTws signal in the office. but I guess there is good enough signal outside to not allow roaming. (even though Cingular works in the office) oh well. I will just wait for the merger. >>The roaming agreement that is now in place between ATTWS and Cingular >>allows ATTWS customers to roam on Cingular towers in areas where ATTWS [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > enough signal outside to not allow roaming. (even though Cingular works in > the office) oh well. I will just wait for the merger. It's not a question of where you have signal, it's a question of where ATTWS _believes_ (rightly or otherwise) that it already provides coverage. It would make no sense whatsoever for any carrier to allow you to roam to another carrier (thereby incurring costs) when the "home" carrier can provide its own coverage at the same location. >The same is true for any carrier and any roaming agreement. Actually roaming agreements can be worded any way the two carriers want them to read! So without seeing how they are structured, it is impossible for you to make the statements that you made in this message. My take on it is that if you hit a Cingular (or other roaming partners tower) tower instead of an AT&T tower your call will go through and you will not be charged roaming. Doesn't matter if you are in an area covered by boh carriers or not. -- John S. e-mail responses to - john at kiana dot net >>The same is true for any carrier and any roaming agreement. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > So without seeing how they are structured, it is impossible for you to make the > statements It really has nothing to do with the wording of the agreement. Cingular would gladly let ATTWS use ALL of its towers - since it gets paid by ATTWS for every call-minute that it serves to an ATTWS customer. But ATTWS doesn't want to pay more than necessary to its roaming partners, so they make sure that the only authorized Cingular towers are those where ATTWS doesn't provide overlapping coverage. Pretty simple. > My take on it is that if you hit a Cingular (or other roaming partners tower) > tower instead of an AT&T tower your call will go through and you will not be > charged roaming. Doesn't matter if you are in an area covered by boh carriers > or not. You don't need to take my word for it. Just go and try it out! Or just take Trey's word for it - he's already made this discovery. >You don't need to take my word for it. Just go and try it out! Or just >take Trey's word for it - he's already made this discovery. I am going to as soon as I get to an area that has poor AT&T signal (my home for instance). I will then manually select Cingular as they have pretty good coverage wher I live. More when I get home next - probably the end of May. -- John S. e-mail responses to - john at kiana dot net At my house I have an ATT signal but can still select Cingular and use it. Sacramento, CA > >You don't need to take my word for it. Just go and try it out! Or just > >take Trey's word for it - he's already made this discovery. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > John S. > e-mail responses to - john at kiana dot net |
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