Cingular TDMA in Bostom is Terrible

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Pat - 10 Sep 2003 01:00 GMT

I have no idea about where you live but Cingular in Boston is like Logan
Airport, constantly in renovation and too busy to service its patrons
properly.

I can't tell you how many times I had no opportunity to get an open channel.
Just Beeps.

I am hoping this GSM migration will improve things in the future. Evey
friend I have laughs at me and tell me to go Verizon.

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Chris Reeves - 10 Sep 2003 21:24 GMT

I have had Cingular since it was Cellular one and I live right outside
of Boston and Logan Airport and I have never had a problem with service.
Full signal all the time from my house, never a busy signal or dropped
call.

"Pat" <hotpatpar@hotmail.com> wrote in article
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> I have no idea about where you live but Cingular in Boston is like Logan
> Airport, constantly in renovation and too busy to service its patrons
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> I am hoping this GSM migration will improve things in the future. Evey
> friend I have laughs at me and tell me to go Verizon.

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Pat - 11 Sep 2003 04:10 GMT

Several bad spots in Boston and neighboring communities. Driving down
Memorial Drive can be fun.

> I have had Cingular since it was Cellular one and I live right outside
> of Boston and Logan Airport and I have never had a problem with service.
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Just Reading - 16 Sep 2003 18:33 GMT

Sounds like you are seeing channel congestion. GSM conversion should
eventually increase the number of channels available, as it fits more
calls into same spectrum (at least at lower codec rates); similarly if
Cingular can conclude their deal to buy Nextwave spectrum they will be
able to overlay 1900MHz in high use areas to increase bandwidth.

HOWEVER in the short term the GSM conversion is making things tougher
for TDMA users. Cingular have carved off a portion of their 850MHz
bandwidth to use with GSM, leaving less bandwidth for their TDMA/Amps
customers.

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