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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / ATT Wireless / August 2004Who has better coverage for true GSM
Who has the better coverage in the Washington DC area. I have T-Mobile now. My contract ends in December. The coverage where I live in Germantown Md, sucks. I have to have true GSM to talk to my Girlfriend overseas and SMS. Is ATTWS any better. When she moves here sometime next year I going to get her a phone on GSM so she can sms and call back home. Thanks for any help Brad > Who has the better coverage in the Washington DC area. > I have T-Mobile now. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Thanks for any help > Brad I don't know how T-Mobile roaming works, but I do know that ATT Wireless has roaming agreements with T-Mobile and Cingular; that is, if you have a GSM America plan and there's no ATTWS GSM signal nearby, but there is a Cingular or T-Mobile GSM signal nearby, your phone will switch to that--and will show the carrier--and will allow you to make a call, and will charge you based on your plan. For GSM America, if you're still within your plan minutes, such roaming would be no cost. So maybe T-Mobile customers won't roam to ATTWS towers, but I know that ATTWS customers will work fine on T-Mobile towers as necessary. >> Who has the better coverage in the Washington DC area. >> I have T-Mobile now. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >So maybe T-Mobile customers won't roam to ATTWS towers, but I know that >ATTWS customers will work fine on T-Mobile towers as necessary. The AT&T roaming agreement is rather limited. It affects only specific territories and corridors, and was really a better deal for AT&T customers at the time it was announced than TM customers. >Who has the better coverage in the Washington DC area. >I have T-Mobile now. >My contract ends in December. >The coverage where I live in Germantown Md, sucks. >I have to have true GSM to talk to my Girlfriend overseas and SMS. There ain't no false GSM. Why would SMS from a decent CDMA provider (wlel, that lets out Sprint right there), like Verizon, not work? <snip> -- John Bartley K7AAY http://celdata.cjb.net This post quad-ROT-13 encrypted; reading it violates the DMCA. Nobody but a fool goes into a federal counterrorism operation without duct tape - Richard Preston, THE COBRA EVENT. On 7/18/04 12:07 PM, in article MexKc.4541$Iz3.4305@nwrddc01.gnilink.net, > Who has the better coverage in the Washington DC area. > I have T-Mobile now. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Thanks for any help > Brad I have a T-Mobile account and used to have an AT&T account. At a friend's house in Springfield VA, I couldn't get *any* kind of signal on my AT&T phone. Then one day a few months ago (Dec '03/Jan '04?) I received a phone call there. Finally, I thought, they've added a tower nearby! Then I received my bill the next month and saw they had charged me .25/min roaming. As it turned out, AT&T had made roaming agreements with T-Mobile and Cingular, but on my plan at the time I would be charged. In February, I switched that AT&T number to Cingular (mobile number portability, hurray!) because on the Cingular nationwide plan all calls would be subtracted from my monthly minutes, regardless of which carrier I was on. When roaming, it simply says "Cingular Extended" on the display. Additional advantages to Cingular include rollover minutes, and for $2.99/month and a one time $39 purchase of a Fast Forward device (doubles as a charging cradle) I can forward incoming calls to my home or office phone and not be charged for the minutes. Yes, I know you can use GSM codes or the phone's menu to forward calls on other carriers, but they charge you for the minutes. Finally, AT&T charged .25/min for international SMS (outgoing), where T-Mobile and Cingular charged less. I don't remember how much at the moment, as I'm not at home and don't have past bills handy. HTH, Mark >Additional advantages to Cingular include rollover minutes, and for >$2.99/month and a one time $39 purchase of a Fast Forward device (doubles as >a charging cradle) I can forward incoming calls to my home or office phone >and not be charged for the minutes. Yes, I know you can use GSM codes or the >phone's menu to forward calls on other carriers, but they charge you for the >minutes. Make that *some* do. T-Mobile does not charge you for forwarded minutes if you use conditional forwarding but uses your forwarding bucket which includes 500 minutes per month. Unconditional forwarding uses plan minutes. I believe AT&T charges the per minute rate for forwarding that you would pay if you went over your allotted minutes. I don't know how ¢ingular charges for forwarding minutes. >Finally, AT&T charged .25/min for international SMS (outgoing), where >T-Mobile and Cingular charged less. I don't remember how much at the moment, >as I'm not at home and don't have past bills handy. T-Mobile charges 5 cents per message. I think you've got something wrong there as how can you be charged "per minute" for sending SMS???? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I currently have both AT&T and T-Mobile. The T-Mobile account is almost 2 years old and the AT&T is still in the 30 day trial. It's starting to look like I will send the AT&T phone back. T-Mobile's plans seem easier to understand. Plain English. Also if you have T-Zones, they are unlimited. mMode is metered As pissed off with T-mo as I get some times, the plan and coverage is really good. The grass is NOT greener on the other side of the fence > T-Mobile's plans seem easier to understand. Plain English. Hmmmmm, I had no trouble understanding ATTWS's plan. What does yours say? >I currently have both AT&T and T-Mobile. The T-Mobile account is almost >2 years old and the AT&T is still in the 30 day trial. It's starting to >look like I will send the AT&T phone back. > >T-Mobile's plans seem easier to understand. Plain English. Also if you >have T-Zones, they are unlimited. mMode is metered There are both metered and "unlimited" mMode plans.  SignatureBest regards, John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/ > [POSTED TO alt.cellular.attws - REPLY ON USENET PLEASE] > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > There are both metered and "unlimited" mMode plans. T-Zones appear to be a lot easier to customize and navigate (and, yes, I've used both - but I've only got about a week on T-Zones since my port from AT&TWS.) Signaturespam delenda est >> >I currently have both AT&T and T-Mobile. The T-Mobile account is almost >> >2 years old and the AT&T is still in the 30 day trial. It's starting to [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >T-Zones appear to be a lot easier to customize and navigate ... Point taken. SignatureBest regards, John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/ >The grass is NOT greener on the other side of the fence And be sure that you always add - YMMV -- John S. e-mail responses to - john at kiana dot net |
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