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Cellular Phone Forum / General / General Topics / May 2004Bay area reception
Which provider has the best reception in the bay area (California)? Cingular? Verizon? AT&T? T-Mobile? Someone else? Thanks... Reception wise, it really depends where you live and work. The best bet would be to ask your friends and colleagues for a recommendation. Cost wise, Cingular and T-Mobile have the best prices plans. > Which provider has the best reception in the bay area (California)? > Cingular? Verizon? AT&T? T-Mobile? Someone else? > Thanks... > Which provider has the best reception in the bay area (California)? > Cingular? Verizon? AT&T? T-Mobile? Someone else? > Thanks... I've been in the bay area for 4 years now (San Jose) and verizon seems to have the best service. Unfortunately they are also the most expensive and have the worst selection of phones. The worst service is Cingular; I have a lot of friends that signed up with them because they have the best prices, but not one of them renewed their contracts due to bad reception. I am with Verizon and have never missed a call due to no reception and I get dropped calls maybe once every two months. -Mike To be fair to Cingular, their service has much improved in the Bay Area. Really, 6 months is an eternity in the technology business and things can get better to worse and vice versa very quickly. Cingular does have good prices with Rollover minutes -- that means you can save your unused minutes for future use. That's a good deal that allows you to maximize your price plan. If you sign with AT&T in the Bay Area you'll have access to both the AT&T and Cingular network. By year's end AT&T and Cingular will be one network. AT&T has a new promotional campaign that asks "how many bars have you got?" They signed major roaming agreements that should provide much better coverage to their customers. T-mobile has great plans if you need to talk 1500 minutes and up. They also have a California and Nevada plan at $49.99 for 3000 minutes (outgoing calls limited to CA and NV). T-Mobile also a good unlimited Internet Plan at $19.99. Sprint has pretty good deal also. Some of my friend use Sprint and report good coverage in the Bay Area. My personal feeling is that Verizon is too expensive and they don't deserve the premium. > > Which provider has the best reception in the bay area (California)? > > Cingular? Verizon? AT&T? T-Mobile? Someone else? [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > -Mike >If you sign with AT&T in the Bay Area you'll have access to both the AT&T >and Cingular network. By year's end AT&T and Cingular will be one network. I read in the newspaper that Cingular and T-Mobile are terminating their agreement in California/Nevada. T-Mobile has been using Cingular's towers in these two states, and as part of severing the agreement, Cingular will be giving their infrastructure in these two states to T-Mobile. So Cingular-AT&T will just end up with the current AT&T infrastructure in these two states. Cingular is selling some infrastructure to T-Mobile but the extend to what they are selling is unspecified. Cingular + AT&T should have better coverage than currently. I suspect Cingular will sell infrastructure where they have overlap with current AT&T network. > >If you sign with AT&T in the Bay Area you'll have access to both the AT&T > >and Cingular network. By year's end AT&T and Cingular will be one network. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Cingular-AT&T will just end up with the current AT&T infrastructure in > these two states. >Cingular is selling some infrastructure to T-Mobile but the extend to what >they are selling is unspecified. No, it was specified, spectrum and infastructure (all of the towers and switches and cables and nuts and bolts). In addition T-Mobile is also getting 10MHz more spectrum although at the moment I have forgotten where. -- John S. e-mail responses to - john at kiana dot net >So >Cingular-AT&T will just end up with the current AT&T infrastructure in >these two states. And it is plenty of infastructure to be sure. It might also be a plan to help avoid regulatory issues to get the sale to go through. -- John S. e-mail responses to - john at kiana dot net > To be fair to Cingular, their service has much improved in the Bay Area. > Really, 6 months is an eternity in the technology business and things can > get better to worse and vice versa very quickly. A relative of my GF just returned all of her equipment to Cingular (5 person family share plan) after having it for two days and cancelled her contract... No signal in their house and "...most of my time on the phone was spent redialing" (her words). Their problem is lack of towers for coverage. > Cingular does have good prices with Rollover minutes -- that means you can > save your unused minutes for future use. That's a good deal that allows you > to maximize your price plan. No doubt... Cingular has the BEST plans going along with a pretty nice selection of phones. Reception sucks though. It doesn't matter how great the plan is; if you are paying to talk and not able to then it is not a bargin. > My personal feeling is that Verizon is too expensive and they don't deserve > the premium. Personal call... I pay to talk and Verizon has been the best so far. In outlaying areas many times myself and the other Verizon customers are the only ones who have signals. I also go up and down 101 and 5 to the LA area fairly often and I get signal almost the whole time (there are some small parts of 5 that I get no service). Like I said, I pay to talk and if I can't then it doesn't matter how cheap my plan is. I would rather pay more and talk when I want. As you mentioned, Cingular may get better IF the merger with AT&T goes through. It may raise prices though. Cingular's Acquisition of AT&T Wireless Could Cost Consumers $5 Billion a Year http://www.axcessnews.com/technology_052604.shtml -Mike > Which provider has the best reception in the bay area (California)? > Cingular? Verizon? AT&T? T-Mobile? Someone else? > Thanks... I like Verizon's rural and suburb coverage and the ability to roam on Sprint. ATT or Sprint may be worth a look. ATTWS network is in flux, since the purchase by Cingular. Their old (Cell One) analog/TDMA network was extensive, but is being converted to GSM. Word is...get an 850mhz capable GSM phone, if one is going to get ATT GSM. The combined ATTWS and Cingular (GSM) network looks promising, but there is no analog fallback for rural/mountain coverage. Not sure if ATT or Cingular is activating GAIT (GSM/TDMA) phones, here in Califonia. I'm uncertain how GAIT and 850mhz GSM phone coverage will play out in CA? Analog coverage is also useful for some areas in the hills and parks, just outside Bay Area metro coverage. It's surprising, how much coverage area a good analog phone adds in the hills (often valleys). Most car bound users would never notice, since Verizon has widespread digital coverage. Links.... Bay Area Cell Info http://www.sfbacell.com/ Cell Phone Information - Pacific Northwest http://cell.uoregon.edu/ Mountain Wireless Review-California http://www.mountainwireless.com/cellcal.shtml - David |
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