Will I get roaming charges with GAIT?

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Brian Bernardini - 28 Jun 2004 00:20 GMT

I'm a little confused about this whole GAIT thing. From what I've read,
it seems like even though the coverage area with a GAIT phone is huge,
I'll still get hit with roaming charges if I go outside of an official
Cingular coverage area, even if I have a plan in which roaming and long
distance charges are included. True or false?

-Brian

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Elmo P. Shagnasty - 28 Jun 2004 00:48 GMT

In article
<bbernarWOOOAHdini-2E083A.19204027062004@text-east.newsfeeds.com>,

> I'm a little confused about this whole GAIT thing. From what I've read,
> it seems like even though the coverage area with a GAIT phone is huge,
> I'll still get hit with roaming charges if I go outside of an official
> Cingular coverage area, even if I have a plan in which roaming and long
> distance charges are included. True or false?

No.

With a nation GAIT plan, you have a phone that can handle multiple
technologies, AND a plan for which there is no roaming--period.

So your area for making a call that's covered by your plan is HUGE.

Every call made from anywhere there's an available signal is covered by
your plan.

Pretty much, with Cingular's nation GAIT plan, if there's a signal then
it's yours to take. If it's daytime, it's part of your anytime minutes;
if it's night or weekend, it's part of that bucket.

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Brian Bernardini - 28 Jun 2004 00:59 GMT

> In article
> <bbernarWOOOAHdini-2E083A.19204027062004@text-east.newsfeeds.com>,
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> it's yours to take. If it's daytime, it's part of your anytime minutes;
> if it's night or weekend, it's part of that bucket.

Cool. Too bad the phones aren't anything to write home about.

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Elmo P. Shagnasty - 28 Jun 2004 19:57 GMT

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<bbernarWOOOAHdini-B5ACDA.19594027062004@text-east.newsfeeds.com>,

> > Pretty much, with Cingular's nation GAIT plan, if there's a signal then
> > it's yours to take. If it's daytime, it's part of your anytime minutes;
> > if it's night or weekend, it's part of that bucket.
>
> Cool. Too bad the phones aren't anything to write home about.

yeah, tell me about it.

Face it: the phone companies don't want GAIT. They want anything that
isn't GSM to die.

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Chris Russell - 30 Jun 2004 03:10 GMT

And that's too bad as GSM sucks as implemented by Cingular. The reason I
gave up my GAIT service and paid the $150 ETF instead of $450 to the end of
the term. Echoes, low volume (on ATTWS and T-Mobile roaming, volume was
good), background system noises, crosstalk among other problems. Then a
fried SIM card and they wanted $25 for a new one. Thank God I also had a
SprintPCS Nokia 3588i on a Free & Clear America plan. Much better service
on a larger national calling area.

Chris

> In article
> <bbernarWOOOAHdini-B5ACDA.19594027062004@text-east.newsfeeds.com>,
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> Face it: the phone companies don't want GAIT. They want anything that
> isn't GSM to die.

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The Ghost of General Lee - 30 Jun 2004 22:44 GMT

>> Cool. Too bad the phones aren't anything to write home about.
>
>yeah, tell me about it.
>
>Face it: the phone companies don't want GAIT. They want anything that
>isn't GSM to die.

Well, maybe the GSM carriers are, but the general trend is the
complete abolishment of AMPS capable phones. The carriers can't wait
until they can turn those analog channels off.

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