Old Cingular plan with Analog in NC (roaming) and upgrade to Nokia6340i

"DoctorZ" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> It costs me about $36K in damages, so far. Since Cingular is not
> informing their customers prior to deactivation of AMPS and TDMS, I
> believe its useful inform others.
>
> When/if Cingular terminates your TDMA access and assuming this causes a
> loss of coverage, would you not inform others?

The same thing happened to us after about 5 years. We had a family plan
that we purchased because I am in an electric wheelchair and need to have
constant access to my family. Coverage became very poor to nothing. If I
wanted this poor to nothing coverage I would have to go outside my house.
That is a trick for me. We were reassured it would get better. It never
did but they wouldn't waive the early termination fees. We contacted the
BBS which resulted in the customer service rep from Hades calling us. She
was so rude, so condescending she acted like we were idiots because we
believed the representatives that the service would get better. She told me
the FCC would not allow them to use the towers anymore. She told my husband
that T-mobile wouldn't allow the towers usage anymore. She told me to blame
the FCC not Cingular. But she still wouldn't let us out of the contract.
We had four phones. As each phone's contract expired we ported to
Verizon. For one we paid the ETF.
Eventually when we received a letter asking us to come back my husband wrote
and told them why we left. We were allowed to send the phone that we paid
the ETF on back to them and they refunded our money. But that didn't
refund almost the year that we paid for and the phone for me was almost
useless.

Verizon works in every room of my house. It has a better signal than
Cingular ever had. I talk to friends across the country. It also works
in upper Vermont where Cingular was more than spotty.

T

>

> Sorry you think the truth is a rant or a chip, but hopefully it will
> help others. For example the fact Verizon still offers onsite repairs
> and Cingular will ship a replacement phone is an important issue for
> some people. Its not a rant or chip to bring it to people's attention.
> This way each person can make an informed decision.
>
> Verizon data access is far ahead of Cingular in speed and coverage.
> This is important to some people and not others.
>
> If I lived in KY and never traveled, Cingular would be a preferred
> choice.
>
> If I need to travel in 50 states, Cingular is not a choice.
>

---

› See More: Old Cingular plan with Analog in NC (roaming) and upgrade to Nokia6340i

"DoctorZ" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Then Cingular is charging the higher GAIT fees, knowing their AMPS
> roaming
> Agreements were not being honored. Sounds like criminal fraud.
>
> Its not just NC as without GAIT, Cingular does not have perfect
> coverage. Even in certain parts of metro Atlanta, I know of several
> people that had to terminate their contract after TDMS was shut off.

In New England too.

T
My
> 6340I would latch onto a American Roaming TDMS network and Cingular 3rd
> level tech told me there was nothing they could do. I guess they are
> not considering putting up more GSM cell sites in Atlanta.
>