Cingular in Raleigh, NC

"tom glaab" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Spud <[email protected]> wrote
> Does anyone know how the coverage is in the RTP area?

Wireless Week is reporting today:

Cingular Wireless has opened its third retail store location in
Raleigh, N.C. The company also added 17 new cell sites in the state
this month in an effort to enhance its wireless coverage in Raleigh
and throughout Eastern North Carolina.

tg.

Coverage is good , just not so good indoors due to the fact that cingular
runs at 1900mhz in the Carolinas and that doesn't penetrate buildings.

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"tom glaab" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Spud <[email protected]> wrote
> Does anyone know how the coverage is in the RTP area?

Wireless Week is reporting today:

Cingular Wireless has opened its third retail store location in
Raleigh, N.C. The company also added 17 new cell sites in the state
this month in an effort to enhance its wireless coverage in Raleigh
and throughout Eastern North Carolina.

tg.

Coverage is good , just not so good indoors due to the fact that cingular
runs at 1900mhz in the Carolinas and that doesn't penetrate buildings.

meant to say doesn't penetrate buildings as well as 800/850mhz

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In <[email protected]> on Sat, 04 Dec 2004
03:40:12 GMT, "AT" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Coverage is good , just not so good indoors due to the fact that cingular
>runs at 1900mhz in the Carolinas and that doesn't penetrate buildings.
>
>meant to say doesn't penetrate buildings as well as 800/850mhz

It's not that simple. While 1900 penetrates wall less well than 800/850, it
does a better job of penetrating small openings (e.g., windows). Overall the
difference is usually relatively small.

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In <[email protected]> on Sat, 04 Dec 2004
03:40:12 GMT, "AT" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Coverage is good , just not so good indoors due to the fact that cingular
>runs at 1900mhz in the Carolinas and that doesn't penetrate buildings.
>
>meant to say doesn't penetrate buildings as well as 800/850mhz

It's not that simple. While 1900 penetrates wall less well than 800/850, it
does a better job of penetrating small openings (e.g., windows). Overall
the
difference is usually relatively small.

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John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular>
tter

While that may be technically true, my real world experience has been the
deciding factor for me. I have used both Alltel & Verizon CDMA 800mhz
service all over the Raleigh durham area, and have used Cingular's 1900mhz
service all over the same area, and Cingular is SOOO much worse indoors than
the others. In areas where I have full strength on alltel , and I walk
inside a structure (like a mall), my signal would drop a bar or two, whereas
with Cingular I regularly drop from FULL signal outside the door to NO
signal inside. This has happened all over the area, and unless a cingular
tower is extremely close the rf performance indoors is terrible.
Fortunately, the areas I need service the most with Cingular are areas with
relatively strong levels, but when my contract is over I'm going back to
CDMA in the carolinas.

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In <[email protected]> on Sat, 04 Dec 2004
18:37:45 GMT, "JG" <[email protected]> wrote:

>"John Navas" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>It's not that simple. While 1900 penetrates [walls] less well than 800/850, it
>does a better job of penetrating small openings (e.g., windows). Overall
>the difference is usually relatively small.

>While that may be technically true, my real world experience has been the
>deciding factor for me. I have used both Alltel & Verizon CDMA 800mhz
>service all over the Raleigh durham area, and have used Cingular's 1900mhz
>service all over the same area, and Cingular is SOOO much worse indoors than
>the others.

You can't determine frequency-related performance by comparing different
carriers. That's probably a carrier issue, not a frequency issue.

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You can't determine frequency-related performance by comparing different
carriers. That's probably a carrier issue, not a frequency issue.


Do you ever NOT have an answer for any question? I thought this thread was
about Cingular's coverage in Raleigh nc. I live in raleigh, do you?. I've
used 3 different brand phones on the gsm network all over the city and I can
tell you without a doubt Cingular's coverage indoors is not as reliable as
the 800mhz CDMA coverage. It definitely is a carrier issue as you say,
Cingulars! My friends on Sprint's PCS network have similar problems.
Their phones work outside fine, but **** indoors.

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In <[email protected]> on Sun, 05 Dec 2004
01:36:01 GMT, "JG" <[email protected]> wrote:

>"John Navas" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
>You can't determine frequency-related performance by comparing different
>carriers. That's probably a carrier issue, not a frequency issue.
>
>Do you ever NOT have an answer for any question?

Do you ever READ the post you're quoting and responding to?

>I thought this thread was
>about Cingular's coverage in Raleigh nc.

What you responded to was:

>>... just not so good indoors due to the fact that cingular
>>runs at 1900mhz in the Carolinas and that doesn't penetrate
>>buildings.

>>meant to say doesn't penetrate buildings as well as 800/850mhz

>It's not that simple. While 1900 penetrates wall less well than
>800/850, it does a better job of penetrating small openings (e.g.,
>windows). Overall the difference is usually relatively small.

>I live in raleigh, do you?.

The above material isn't specific to Raleigh in any way. If you're just
responding to the Raleigh part of the thread, then you should have made that
clear; e.g., by trimming away the part above.

>... It definitely is a carrier issue as you say,

Indeed.

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