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Cellular Phone Forum / General / GSM / March 2004GSM Coverage in Panama City, Florida
I have an expired AT&T Wireless TDMA account and want to upgrade to a new ATTWS GSM plan with a Nokia 6200 phone. I live in Tampa, Florida, but occasionally travel up to Panama City in the panhandle. When I look at the ATTWS coverage map in an ATTWS office, there does not appear to be any GSM coverage in Panama City. Does this mean that there aren't any roaming possibilities at all? Is there any GSM in Panama City, Florida? Could I unlock the 6200 and buy a pre-paid SIM card to use while I'm in Panama City? I will also have a spare, nonused, Nokia 6160 phone. Could I reactivate it and use a prepaid card with it when I travel to Panama City? Thanks for any help... -jb > Is there any GSM in Panama City, Florida? T-Mobile provides GSM-1900 coverage in Panama City (FL) but it does not extend down to Port St. Jo. I don't know if AT&T has roaming with T-Mobile in Panama City or not.  SignatureDonald R. Newcomb DRNewcomb (at) attglobal (dot) net USCellular down there (now AT&TWireless) stops just outside of panama city, where it picked up into Cellular one(now verizon) i think cingular was down there too fcc was really smart the way they carved up areas that on county was left out ofthe usc north florida licenses > > Is there any GSM in Panama City, Florida? > > T-Mobile provides GSM-1900 coverage in Panama City (FL) but it does not > extend down to Port St. Jo. I don't know if AT&T has roaming with T-Mobile > in Panama City or not. On 2/27/04 9:42 PM, in article ERV%b.49080$Ve2.12075@bignews6.bellsouth.net, > USCellular down there (now AT&TWireless) stops just outside of panama city, > where it picked up into Cellular one(now verizon) i think cingular was down [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >> extend down to Port St. Jo. I don't know if AT&T has roaming with T-Mobile >> in Panama City or not. How about Palm Beach - Jupiter area? I need T-Mobile GPRS in that area, does it work? Anyone uses it? Please don¹t reply to the address above it¹s a spam trap. If you want to send me a message you can do it via any of my sites below. SignatureVadim Zima ATA Certified Russian/Ukrainian Translator/Court Certified Conference Interpreter Work & Fun: http://zima.net Forum: http://www.zima.net/phpBB2/index.php Personal pages: http://homepage.mac.com/zimanet >How about Palm Beach - Jupiter area? I need T-Mobile GPRS in that area, does >it work? Anyone uses it? T-Mo has native coverage in that area and it works fine. -SC SignatureStanley Cline -- sc1 at roamer1 dot org -- http://www.roamer1.org/ ... "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a law against it by that time." -/usr/games/fortune On 3/3/04 10:52 PM, in article ohkd40tgmutkmuujqsr5h7ncugtfico4bg@4ax.com, >> How about Palm Beach - Jupiter area? I need T-Mobile GPRS in that area, does >> it work? Anyone uses it? > > T-Mo has native coverage in that area and it works fine. > > -SC Thanks for the good news, in three day I'll test it myself ;-) Thanks for the answers, everyone. I bought the 6200 on AT&T Wireless two days after my first post. I am very happy with it so far. Reception is very strong and clear, and no one has complained about my transmitting strength. I have yet to make a trip to Panama City. Hopefully AT&T will have a few more GSM towers in the area before my next trip up. I'm still curious about using a pre-paid chip in my old Nokia 6160 cell phone. That would be a good backup in case my GSM phone doesn't work. -jb >I have an expired AT&T Wireless TDMA account and want to upgrade to a >new ATTWS GSM plan with a Nokia 6200 phone. I live in Tampa, Florida, >but occasionally travel up to Panama City in the panhandle. > >When I look at the ATTWS coverage map in an ATTWS office, there does >not appear to be any GSM coverage in Panama City. Does this mean that You *should* be able to roam on Cingular and/or T-Mobile... AT&T has no licenses for Bay County and (barring a miracle, such as VZW selling off their 800 MHz system or part of their 1900 MHz spectrum there -- VZW does *not* need 55 MHz in P.C.) won't have native coverage in P.C. until the AT&T/Cingular merger is complete (assuming it does happen.) -SC SignatureStanley Cline -- sc1 at roamer1 dot org -- http://www.roamer1.org/ ... "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a law against it by that time." -/usr/games/fortune Stanley Cline <sc1-news@roamer1.org> wrote in message > You *should* be able to roam on Cingular and/or T-Mobile... That would be good enough for me. I thought it might have shown up on ATTWS maps as some kind of connectivity if I could roam. > AT&T has no licenses for Bay County and (barring a miracle, such as > VZW selling off their 800 MHz system or part of their 1900 MHz > spectrum there -- VZW does *not* need 55 MHz in P.C.) won't have > native coverage in P.C. until the AT&T/Cingular merger is complete > (assuming it does happen.) I was hoping this might be the ultimate answer when I extended my contract and bought the Nokia 6200. Thanks for the info. > Stanley Cline -- sc1 at roamer1 dot org -- http://www.roamer1.org/ Nice site. -jb > Stanley Cline <sc1-news@roamer1.org> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > -jb Alright, my dad has an unlocked nokia 6200 phone and has service with Suncom (www.suncom.com) up here in tri-cities Tn a member of the ATTWirles network. He went to Panama city last week and could not roam in panama city beach and he was highly pissed about it. So there is no way he can roam with GSM in panama city until the cingular/at&t merger is complete? He had to switch his service back over to a TDMA phone that he took with him just in case. Also when is the predicted merger going to take place ya reckon? Sean |
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