POLL: How was your service during the blackout?

How was your carrier during the blackout?

Here in the northern suburbs of Detroit:

Verizon: Reliable
Sprint: Very poor or no service
Cingular: Very poor or no service (second hand account from reliable
source).
Nextel: No service
AT&T: ???
T-Mobile: ???

This was with some fairly extensive driving throughout Macomb County and
reports from Oakland county.
What were your experiences?

S
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Mine was perfect on Verizon Wireless.. But I live in Northern Idaho.. So,
none of the switches in this area had anything to do with the NE!

"Smac" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> How was your carrier during the blackout?
>
> Here in the northern suburbs of Detroit:
>
> Verizon: Reliable
> Sprint: Very poor or no service
> Cingular: Very poor or no service (second hand account from reliable
> source).
> Nextel: No service
> AT&T: ???
> T-Mobile: ???
>
> This was with some fairly extensive driving throughout Macomb County and
> reports from Oakland county.
> What were your experiences?
>
> S
> --
> Remove your panties to reply




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Mine was perfect on Verizon Wireless.. But I live in Northern Idaho.. So,
none of the switches in this area had anything to do with the NE!

"Smac" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> How was your carrier during the blackout?
>
> Here in the northern suburbs of Detroit:
>
> Verizon: Reliable
> Sprint: Very poor or no service
> Cingular: Very poor or no service (second hand account from reliable
> source).
> Nextel: No service
> AT&T: ???
> T-Mobile: ???
>
> This was with some fairly extensive driving throughout Macomb County and
> reports from Oakland county.
> What were your experiences?
>
> S
> --
> Remove your panties to reply




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Northern NY (Ogdensburg, NY)

Verizon: worked after initial rush of calls (small number of channels for a
rural area)
Sprint: Doesn't service this area
Cingular: Don't know (didn't hear any complaints)
Nextel: Doesn't service this area
AT&T: Doesn't service this area
T-Mobile: Doesn't service this area

> > Remove your panties to reply

You wish.

Joe

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 18:38:56 -0400, Smac
<[email protected]> wrote:

>How was your carrier during the blackout?
>
>Here in the northern suburbs of Detroit:
>
>Verizon: Reliable
>Sprint: Very poor or no service
>Cingular: Very poor or no service (second hand account from reliable
>source).
>Nextel: No service
>AT&T: ???
>T-Mobile: ???
>
>This was with some fairly extensive driving throughout Macomb County and
>reports from Oakland county.
>What were your experiences?
>
>S


I work in Garden City and have Verizon service. The phone would not
make or receive a call while I was at my office. I got down the road
to like Ford Rd and Merriman, and the signal was much better. I think
the tower near my work was having some real capacity issues. I was
really satisfied with my experience though. Where most people didn't
have any service (my younger brothers both have T-Mobile service and
couldn't catch a signal if their life depended on it) I didn't really
have any trouble making or receiving calls the whole weekend. That is
just my observation though.

I don't think that I will ever leave Verizon. You do pay a
little bit of a premium when it comes to the price plans, but you
definitely get your money's worth. When you need to use the phone,
you are able to use it and don't have as many problems with coverage
or anything.

Northern NY (Ogdensburg, NY)

Verizon: worked after initial rush of calls (small number of channels for a
rural area)
Sprint: Doesn't service this area
Cingular: Don't know (didn't hear any complaints)
Nextel: Doesn't service this area
AT&T: Doesn't service this area
T-Mobile: Doesn't service this area

> > Remove your panties to reply

You wish.

Joe

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 18:38:56 -0400, Smac
<[email protected]> wrote:

>How was your carrier during the blackout?
>
>Here in the northern suburbs of Detroit:
>
>Verizon: Reliable
>Sprint: Very poor or no service
>Cingular: Very poor or no service (second hand account from reliable
>source).
>Nextel: No service
>AT&T: ???
>T-Mobile: ???
>
>This was with some fairly extensive driving throughout Macomb County and
>reports from Oakland county.
>What were your experiences?
>
>S


I work in Garden City and have Verizon service. The phone would not
make or receive a call while I was at my office. I got down the road
to like Ford Rd and Merriman, and the signal was much better. I think
the tower near my work was having some real capacity issues. I was
really satisfied with my experience though. Where most people didn't
have any service (my younger brothers both have T-Mobile service and
couldn't catch a signal if their life depended on it) I didn't really
have any trouble making or receiving calls the whole weekend. That is
just my observation though.

I don't think that I will ever leave Verizon. You do pay a
little bit of a premium when it comes to the price plans, but you
definitely get your money's worth. When you need to use the phone,
you are able to use it and don't have as many problems with coverage
or anything.

"Joe Burke" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> Northern NY (Ogdensburg, NY)
>
> Verizon: worked after initial rush of calls (small number of channels
> for a rural area)
> Sprint: Doesn't service this area
> Cingular: Don't know (didn't hear any complaints)
> Nextel: Doesn't service this area
> AT&T: Doesn't service this area
> T-Mobile: Doesn't service this area

Nassau County, Long Island, NY

Verizon: For the first hour or so, could not make or receive calls. Mobile
web did work during this time, which I used to check for updates from ABC
News. After the first hour or so was over, I could make and receive calls,
but could not access the voicemail system. After another hour or so,
everything was working normally.

AT&T: Friends with AT&T could not make or receive calls for the rest of
Thursday. Service was still unavailable on Friday for much of the day.

Don't know about the other carriers.

Martin

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 18:38:56 -0400, Smac
<[email protected]> wrote:

>How was your carrier during the blackout?
>
Excellent. AMPS on the bagphone never missed a beat. Calls went
through faster without all those damned Yankees on the system,
too!...(c;

Even Alltel on B was workin'!



Larry W4CSC

Maybe we could get the power grid fixed if every politician
regulating the power companies wasn't on their payrolls.

"Joe Burke" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> Northern NY (Ogdensburg, NY)
>
> Verizon: worked after initial rush of calls (small number of channels
> for a rural area)
> Sprint: Doesn't service this area
> Cingular: Don't know (didn't hear any complaints)
> Nextel: Doesn't service this area
> AT&T: Doesn't service this area
> T-Mobile: Doesn't service this area

Nassau County, Long Island, NY

Verizon: For the first hour or so, could not make or receive calls. Mobile
web did work during this time, which I used to check for updates from ABC
News. After the first hour or so was over, I could make and receive calls,
but could not access the voicemail system. After another hour or so,
everything was working normally.

AT&T: Friends with AT&T could not make or receive calls for the rest of
Thursday. Service was still unavailable on Friday for much of the day.

Don't know about the other carriers.

Martin

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 18:38:56 -0400, Smac
<[email protected]> wrote:

>How was your carrier during the blackout?
>
Excellent. AMPS on the bagphone never missed a beat. Calls went
through faster without all those damned Yankees on the system,
too!...(c;

Even Alltel on B was workin'!



Larry W4CSC

Maybe we could get the power grid fixed if every politician
regulating the power companies wasn't on their payrolls.

Nassau County (Long Island), New York

T-Mobile worked great for about 5-6 hours.

At 4:20 pm, my brother could not contact my mom (Verizon Wireless) nor my
dad (AT&T Wireless) but he got through to me (T-Mobile) easily, from a
landline. Bro's Nextel phone was completely useless until the next day.
Not surprising... Nextel is pretty useless as a telephone most of the time
anyway (great for 2-way walkie-talkie though)

After about 6 hours, I guess the backup (battery?) power to the T-Mobile
towers went out, and I had no service.

By then Verizon & AT&T's congestion cleared up, and their cells still had
power. Diesel generators I guess. These two worked worked normally once
the congestion had cleared.

T-Mobile came back online early Friday morning, but their mobile web
(T-Zones) has been slow the whole weekend.

Nassau County (Long Island), New York

T-Mobile worked great for about 5-6 hours.

At 4:20 pm, my brother could not contact my mom (Verizon Wireless) nor my
dad (AT&T Wireless) but he got through to me (T-Mobile) easily, from a
landline. Bro's Nextel phone was completely useless until the next day.
Not surprising... Nextel is pretty useless as a telephone most of the time
anyway (great for 2-way walkie-talkie though)

After about 6 hours, I guess the backup (battery?) power to the T-Mobile
towers went out, and I had no service.

By then Verizon & AT&T's congestion cleared up, and their cells still had
power. Diesel generators I guess. These two worked worked normally once
the congestion had cleared.

T-Mobile came back online early Friday morning, but their mobile web
(T-Zones) has been slow the whole weekend.

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 18:38:56 -0400, Smac
<[email protected]> wrote:

>How was your carrier during the blackout?

What blackout?


[email protected]
863-605-1987

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 18:38:56 -0400, Smac
<[email protected]> wrote:

>How was your carrier during the blackout?

What blackout?


[email protected]
863-605-1987