Cingular in rural areas?

Just got back to Colorado from the Ohio, Kentucky area. I had good GSM
coverage in major cities with my Moto model 66 but no luck in rural
areas. I suspect most of the rural Cingular areas use GSM at 850 Mhz.

The brain dead Cingular CSR's gave me their usual crap about needing
to purchase a Cingular phone. I told them that it was news to me that
Cingular manufactured cell phones but that I knew that Moto, Nokia and
others did.

Anyway, my needs are very simple. Can anyone recommend a simple, low
priced, GSM phone that works in the 850 band, unlocked of course.

Any information would be most appreciated.

Thanks

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In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> Just got back to Colorado from the Ohio, Kentucky area. I had good GSM
> coverage in major cities with my Moto model 66 but no luck in rural
> areas. I suspect most of the rural Cingular areas use GSM at 850 Mhz.
>
>
Possibly, but also there may not have been any GSM there at all. The
national map includes 3rd party carriers many of which haven't converted
to GSM from TDMA at all. The only way to get true rural coverage right
now is with a GAIT phone.
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Jud
Dallas TX USA

CIngular doesn't work in the Carrollton ky area, its halfway between
Louisville and Cincinnati Ohio...so you are out of luck. Best carrier I've
found in northern ky is verizon, they just got a bunch of towers on line and
its 5 bar reception all across northern ky.
I tried cingular just last week and returned the phone after 3 days because
of lack of coverage, I had better coverage when I was with southern bell 3
yrs ago(att). Now all I got to do is fight with them over the 191 dollar
bill I got for 6 mins worth of calls...sheez customer service leaves a lot
to be desired.

"Jud Hardcastle" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] says...
>> Just got back to Colorado from the Ohio, Kentucky area. I had good GSM
>> coverage in major cities with my Moto model 66 but no luck in rural
>> areas. I suspect most of the rural Cingular areas use GSM at 850 Mhz.
>>
>>
> Possibly, but also there may not have been any GSM there at all. The
> national map includes 3rd party carriers many of which haven't converted
> to GSM from TDMA at all. The only way to get true rural coverage right
> now is with a GAIT phone.
> --
> Jud
> Dallas TX USA