new ATT 800 or1900?

I am curious, wasn't the old ATT 800mhz and Cinuglar 1900? So is the
new ATT 800 or 1900? Or both. Just confused. I have a V365 if that
matters.

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At 21 Jul 2007 17:59:06 +0000 Jeff Johnson wrote:

> > I am curious, wasn't the old ATT 800mhz and Cinuglar 1900?

Depends on the area. Remember both the "old" Cingular, "old" AT&T and
even Verizon, are amalgams of a myriad of regional cell companies
combined through mergers and acquisitions. In Kansas City, for example,
"Cingular" was 800 and "AT&T" 1900, in San Diego, the opposite.

> > So is the
> > new ATT 800 or 1900? Or both.

Both in some areas, one or the other in others. Verizon is usually 800
(or both) but is also 1900-only in some areas as well (but very few.)

> As a follow up, the reason I am asking is that since I switched from
> Verizon about 27 days ago(haven't reached the 30 day bailout yet!), I
> notice that while both my Verizon and Cingular phone work in my
> condominium, Verizon has a couple of more bars. I was not sure if this
> was tower placement, or 800vs1900 in terms of building penetration.


Tower placement, frequency, handset quality and even the will of the
designers are all factors (i.e. how much signal is "three bars" vs. "two
bars"- there's no industry standard for signal strength vs. bars
displayed- that's up to the manufacturer.)

If both work fine in your condo- who cares how many "bars" are displayed?
I almost miss the old days- my first phone, a Nokia "brick" handheld,
had no signal strength meter- just "idiot lights" for "roam" and "no
service." No indicator simply meant you had service.

I even had TDMA and GSM versions of the same phone at one time (an 8260
on Cingular TDMA and 8290 on T-Mobile GSM.) The TDMA model couldn't
makea call with one bar, and was unitelligible with two- the 8290 would
work fine with one, and even keep a connection with none (just the little
antenna icon by itself.) These were essentially the same phone and had
different "bar" scales!



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