Phone Shuts Off In Extended Area

cingular/att has no way of turning off your phone! you could lose coverage
or go into ROAM mode but that is the only capacity that any provider has. I
do work for cingular, it sounds to me like your phone is the problem or the
battery. TDMA is almost dead, time to look at new equipment!


"Steve" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:32:27 GMT, "Jeremy" <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>I am an ATTWS Customer with TDMA service and an excellent rate plan.
>>
>>Since Cingular took over, I find that my phone shuts off in the Extend
>>Area
>>after a short time. I drove from my home in Philadelphia yesterday to
>>Meddlesex County, NJ (approx. 65 miles). As soon as I got north of
>>Princeton, off went my phone.
>>
>>I could turn it back on, and it searched for a network for about 2
>>minutes,
>>then it came up with 5 bars and read "Extended Area." After about 10
>>minutes, it shut off.
>>
>>Sure, I could keep turning it back on and going through the procedure
>>described above, but my ability to use my phone while driving was
>>compromised. Who can drive and keep checking his phone's display?
>>
>>Does anyone know what Cingular is up to? Please, no theories or
>>guesses--I'd like to hear from someone that works for, or is close to,
>>Cingular.
>>
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"prc2u1" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> cingular/att has no way of turning off your phone! you could lose
> coverage or go into ROAM mode but that is the only capacity that any
> provider has. I do work for cingular, it sounds to me like your phone is
> the problem or the battery. TDMA is almost dead, time to look at new
> equipment!
>

I am the OP -- and I posted that a year ago!

All 3 of my TDMA phones would shut off as soon as I left the home rate area.
Don't ask me how Cingular did this, but it happened once they began
tightening the nooses around the necks of ATTWS customers that had not yet
switched to more expensive Cingular plans.

I went with Sprint in February 2006 and I've had no problems since. They
gave me 3 free phones, a better rate than I was getting from ATTWS/Cingular,
and they waived the setup fees on my new account. I couldn't be happier.

Good Luck! more sprint customers PORT to cingular every day than any other
company. Not every provider fits everyone's need.
"jeremy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "prc2u1" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> cingular/att has no way of turning off your phone! you could lose
>> coverage or go into ROAM mode but that is the only capacity that any
>> provider has. I do work for cingular, it sounds to me like your phone is
>> the problem or the battery. TDMA is almost dead, time to look at new
>> equipment!
>>
>
> I am the OP -- and I posted that a year ago!
>
> All 3 of my TDMA phones would shut off as soon as I left the home rate
> area. Don't ask me how Cingular did this, but it happened once they began
> tightening the nooses around the necks of ATTWS customers that had not yet
> switched to more expensive Cingular plans.
>
> I went with Sprint in February 2006 and I've had no problems since. They
> gave me 3 free phones, a better rate than I was getting from
> ATTWS/Cingular, and they waived the setup fees on my new account. I
> couldn't be happier.
>

"prc2u1" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Good Luck! more sprint customers PORT to cingular every day than any other
> company. Not every provider fits everyone's need.
>

In MY particular circumstances, Cingular's taking over the ATTWS TDMA
network was a nightmare, and Sprint has been quite reliable by contrast.

If I had gone with Cingular's GSM plan, I'd probably been very happy with
the service, but I was pissed that they wanted to take away all my loyalty
discounts that I had earned as an ATTWS customer for years, and to charge me
as though I had just come in as a new customer. So I left.

Life goes on. My needs are modest, and Sprint has been just great FOR ME.
I just have such a bad taste about Cingular's handling of this that I'd
never go back. Juvenile, perhaps, but I won't give them one cent of my
money. We can both survive without each other.