New SMS

Kevin Weaver wrote:
> With verizon you could check your use by seeing it in there free web
> browser. I had all the extras turned off.
>
> With cingular, I have the same. Everything turned off, but got the txt
> message yesterday telling me of the usage. I don't how it can send me
> that when I have it turned off. But as long as it's free then thats
> fine. But If I start to get the other spam like others were talking
> about then I'll call and make sure that won't happen from that point on.
> And if that causes the mins used to not come to me then thats fine as well.

I wish Verizon would allow only text messages from Verizon, and no
others. I'm sure that they could, but they don't want to, as punishment
for not giving them text message revenue.

Verizon knows what's best for their customers; they are protecting us by
disabling functionality in their handsets that we might want to use for
purposes that they don't like.

I don't blame you for abandoning Verizon. I would love to change
carriers, but unfortunately the coverage problems with Cingular, Sprint,
and T-Mobile in the San Francisco Bay Area don't allow it. Cingular is
improving, I've especially noticed improvement out in the east Bay, but
they are still far behind Verizon, especially in the rural areas and
greenbelt (due to AMPS). It'll be interesting to see the surveys in Jan
2009, once AMPS is turned off in some areas, and after Cingular has
another two years of working on their network, but for now Verizon out
here is like the oil companies with the law of supply and demand, "We
have all the supply, so we can demand whatever the $%#@ we want!" The
only positive is that among professionals it's rare to find a
non-Verizon customer out here, so most calls are mobile to mobile, so
people can get by with lower numbers of peak minutes. It's not just the
voice coverage, it's the wider high-speed data coverage.

Where are you located that Cingular is only slightly worse than Verizon?


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Kevin Weaver wrote:
> I'm in San Luis Obispo. I found one area today that is crap. We have a
> long grade the goes from atascadero to San Luis Obispo. There are lots
> of high mountains in the area. (Radio Hill) Where all the radio and tv
> towers are. Verizon has solid coverage where cingular drops twice in a
> few mile stretch. This is my 1st area I've found that cingular lags in
> coverage. None vs great with verizon. You can't find all the area's to
> compare during the 15 day trial. But to be fair, there are areas that
> are better with verizon. But this no coverage is not good news. This
> area is known for major car wrecks. And with this being a Radio tower
> hill, I would have though there would be no problem.

Well you can always keep a PagePlus CDMA phone activated for the areas
where Cingular has no coverage. That seems to be a popular way to retain
the Verizon coverage when switching to Cingular, at least in the Bay Area.

Kevin Weaver wrote:
> Funny you said that. I'm a pageplus seller for this area. But the lack
> of local numbers has caused me to not go thru with selling there service.
>
> There closest number they can give people in this area would be a Santa
> Barbara number. And people in the area won't buy them as it would be a
> long distance call.

Yeah, for landlines calling to the PagePlus phone, but I had a non-local
TDMA/AMPS prepaid for a while and it was no big deal. It was mainly for
urgent calls from my kids. If I had to call the number from a landline
it was pretty cheap with TalkLoop or OneSuite so I didn't worry about
it, but I usually called from my Verizon account where I rarely use even
1/2 of my monthly peak minutes.

PagePlus is almost the standard for low-cost prepaid with wide coverage
to supplement service for those with Cingular and T-Mobile that need the
coverage in places such as you have found that lack GSM coverage but
that have CDMA or AMPS coverage. The Bay Area is full of such gaps in
Cingular's coverage, though they appear to be working at filling them
in. It'll be interesting to see if the next round of surveys shows any
improvement for Cingular, as right now they are rated pretty poorly for
this area by all the independent surveys.