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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / Cingular / September 2003Cingular made up my mind.
I called Cingular this morning and gave then an example of why I wanted a GAIT phone from them. Their response was that a GASIT phone would not do me any good as some of the areas I am traveling through are not covered by any cell phones. What an idiot! Suffer with less coverage because in a few places there is no coverage? Good bye Cingular. > I called Cingular this morning and gave then an example of why I wanted > a GAIT phone from them. Their response was that a GASIT phone would not > do me any good as some of the areas I am traveling through are not > covered by any cell phones. > What an idiot! Suffer with less coverage because in a few places there > is no coverage? Good bye Cingular. I was at a party on Friday night and several people were playing with their GSM SE T616 phones (two on AT&T, one on Cingular). It was amusing because they're laughing at my big old Motorola 270C, and I tell them that I prefer being able to make calls to taking pictures. They all ADMIT that the coverage sucks on GSM, but they like the phones, and they all travel to GSM countries (UK, France, Israel).. The ones on AT&T had just changed from TDMA, and they had really experienced the coverage issue, the one who was on Cingular was clueless, he had had Cingular for so long that he had no concept of coverage. No concept of coverage with Cingular?? Where are you? I have great coverage throughout the country (the worst is in Wisconsin/Illinois, but it's roaming coverage, so still coverage). Cingular Preferred Nation and Cingular Nation have the best coverage, and you night/weekend minutes apply wherever your anytime minutes apply. I'm debating whether or not to stick with Cingular because I now live in an area that Cingular does not service (it's not roaming, chargewise) and I cannot get a local number. Rollover saves me every three or four month from huge overage (sometimes up to 400 minutes of overage). Before I moved, they politely told me that they could not deal with coverage or network features in the area in which I was moving, because that was the sole responsibility of the romaing partner. I gave them a call when my caller ID and voicemail indicator didn't work. They called the roaming partner, and two days later it did work. I was persistend, but polite. Of course, the Preferred Nation requires either a TDMA/AMPS or GAIT handset, while the Cingulr Nation requires a GAIT handset. Don't get that confused with the Cingular GSM Nation. AD >>I called Cingular this morning and gave then an example of why I wanted >>a GAIT phone from them. Their response was that a GASIT phone would not [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > concept > of coverage. > No concept of coverage with Cingular?? Where are you? I have great > coverage throughout the country (the worst is in Wisconsin/Illinois, but > it's roaming coverage, so still coverage). Sorry, I should have mentioned that I'm in California. Cingular is GSM only out here, and is consistently ranked as the worst carrier in terms of coverage. Cingular and T-Mobile (piggybacked on Cingular) share the distinction of being "Bottom-feeders"Cingular's customer service demonstrates that they couldnt care less if they tried to! ATTWorthlessShit is the next in line with thier oversold TDMA system thats NEVER ready to get the job done (ATTWS says your handset is at fault or YOU dont know what your doing or talking about). Sprint is next with thier lousy PissPoor building penatration (or serious lack of it) and having their customers ROAM on Verizons system at $0.69 a minute even in your own home town(SPCS's customer service KNOWS they suck, but they tell you to re-read your contract and to call again!) Nextel...fair to good coverage, holes here and there, good customer service (Especially if your GOVT) Will bend over backwards to try to help, but repeated billing mistakes are the norm, requiring monthly calls to CS to *FIX* the problems over and over again..callers sound like they have clothespin on nose and its going to get worse....Verizon..good coverage..some holes here and there, good building penatration...Good customer service, but with LOTS of billing errors when first starting up.Have had 2 months of screwed up bills.....this is in the Southern California Areas....Eddie > > No concept of coverage with Cingular?? Where are you? I have great > > coverage throughout the country (the worst is in Wisconsin/Illinois, but [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > out here, and is consistently ranked as the worst carrier in terms of > coverage. I am in Everett, Washington. Everyone provides good coverage here. Ironically much of the area I travel in is well known for supporting GAIT phones- including Canada. AT&T sells the T62U. My problem has been a reluctance to walk away from a cell phone company that has done rather well for me when all they need to do is say yes over something that they sell in high volume in their own home turf. So what if I end up roaming on TDMA? That is my problem, not theirs. This is home turf for AT&T but I doubt if they would refuse to sell GAIT phone in a store back east. "Steven M. Scharf" <scharf.steven@linkearth.net> wrote in article <gF59b.3276$UN4.894@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net>: > > No concept of coverage with Cingular?? Where are you? I have great > > coverage throughout the country (the worst is in Wisconsin/Illinois, but [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > out here, and is consistently ranked as the worst carrier in terms of > coverage. >It was amusing because they're >laughing at my >big old Motorola 270C I LOVE my clunky 270c. Use it for work. > I LOVE my clunky 270c. Use it for work. I too have a 270c. It has the best speakerphone I've ever seen. Anybody know any new phones with great speakerphones? Are there any flip phones with speakerphones? I don't think I've ever seen one. Daniel  Signature-------------------------------------------------------------- | danielmbarton@yahoo.com | -------------------------------------------------------------- |
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