Looking for a national ISP for wireless and PDAs (e.g., PalmPilot)

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ANTant@zimage.com - 25 Oct 2003 11:22 GMT

Hi.

How well is Cingular's wireless service for Palm Pilots compared to
other companies?

Thank you in advance.

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Todd Allcock - 27 Oct 2003 05:56 GMT

> Hi.
>
> How well is Cingular's wireless service for Palm Pilots compared to
> other companies?

The devil's, as always, in the details. Often data rates increase (or
data simply stops working!) when you roam into markets that your
carrier has "voice" roaming agreements with, but not data.

When I was a Cingular TDMA customer, for example, my data stopped
working whenever I was in AT&T areas, even though my roaming was
"free" in those area . AT&T's TDMA network simply didn't support
data!

I now live in Denver, (not a Cingular town) and I currently use
T-Mobile. T-Mo's website actually has two different national coverage
maps- one for vce, and one for data, so you'll know where data will
and won't work.

AT&T also shows data roaming areas on their maps. I don't remember if
Cingular publishes a data map or not.

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John S. - 27 Oct 2003 14:26 GMT

>I now live in Denver, (not a Cingular town) and I currently use
>T-Mobile. T-Mo's website actually has two different national coverage
>maps- one for vce, and one for data, so you'll know where data will
>and won't work.

Can you post the URL's for each of these maps. Although I have looked for a
different map I haven't seen one.

Thanks!

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Todd Allcock - 28 Oct 2003 07:13 GMT

> >I now live in Denver, (not a Cingular town) and I currently use
> >T-Mobile. T-Mo's website actually has two different national coverage
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> Can you post the URL's for each of these maps. Although I have looked for a
> different map I haven't seen one.

No, I can't post an URL, because I'm apparently talking out of my a.s
now! ;-)

There used to be a data map that you had to hunt for- it was in the
"help" section under T-Zones/T-Mobile Internet roaming help at:
http://www.t-mobile.com/help/services/tz/roaming.asp (then you clicked
"view T-Mobile Internet coverage map".)

That link is still there, but now it points to:
http://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/national_NC_popup.asp, which looks
like the same multi-colored national map you get at:
http://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/national_popup.asp.

Not a big problem- essentially the data doesn't work in any of the
dark purple "roaming" areas. The old data map was pretty much just
the red T-Mo areas from the new map, while the old voice map was the
red and purple areas all colored red! ;-)

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bones_boy - 01 Nov 2003 17:21 GMT

> I now live in Denver, (not a Cingular town) and I currently use
> T-Mobile. T-Mo's website actually has two different national coverage
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> AT&T also shows data roaming areas on their maps. I don't remember if
> Cingular publishes a data map or not.

Just FYI, My Cingular GPRS works while roaming on AT&T (in Salt Lake City)
and on T-Mo (in Denver).

I think I recall reading where Cingular had signed roaming data agreements
with these two carriers separately (on the GSM/GPRS side, not TDMA/CSD).

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bones_boy - 01 Nov 2003 17:29 GMT

> > I now live in Denver, (not a Cingular town) and I currently use
> > T-Mobile. T-Mo's website actually has two different national coverage
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> I think I recall reading where Cingular had signed roaming data agreements
> with these two carriers separately (on the GSM/GPRS side, not TDMA/CSD).

Oh yeah here it is...

http://www.cingular.com/about/latest_news/03_05_01

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