Opinion on Cingular?

SMS wrote:
> Watch the words these people
> use very carefully, as they are often taken directly from the carrier's
> marketing people. What matters to many people it total coverage, not a)
> total digital coverage, b) total native digital coverage, c) total
> all-digital network, etc.

VERY true...year before last, a Cingular spokesman said in an industry
trade magazine that Cingular now covers 98% of its Texas xxx (where xxx
is some acronym for total number of minutes tendered. Now when you think
about it, that could be only the three major markets Dallas/Ft.Worth,
Houston and San Antonio.

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Kevin K wrote:
> -Not all CDMA phones have AMPS support. The main difference here is
> that many CDMA phones do support it, but nearly all GSM phones do not.

With the exception of a few PDA units from Sprint, all the phones are
AMPS capable.

DecaturTxCowboy wrote:
> Kevin K wrote:
>> -Not all CDMA phones have AMPS support. The main difference here is
>> that many CDMA phones do support it, but nearly all GSM phones do not.
>
> With the exception of a few PDA units from Sprint, all the phones are
> AMPS capable.

Verizon has many digital only phones. Sad thing is that most customers
don't have the slightest understanding of which phone to get in terms of
getting the most coverage.

I was a customer of Cingular for about a year. I live in eastern Oregon.
At first, service was just so-so. After about 2 months the number of
dropped calls, rapid busy signals, the recorded message of: "We're sorry,
all circuits are busy", and lousy customer service, I opted to get out of my
contract. This of course cost me $150.00. I complained to the FCC and
Cingular relented and dropped my "buy-out" of the contract to $75.00. I
figured it was worth it just to get rid of them. I am now with Verizon and
am a very happy customer. So, if you are considering Cingular, remember
they rated last place in Consumer Reports review, they have more complaints
to the FCC than any other cellular carrier, and they have more empty
promises: "Be patient, more towers are coming, be patient, we are explanding
services..." With each day that passed, the service does not get better.

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On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 02:26:12 UTC, DecaturTxCowboy
<DTC@boogie_boggie.blog> wrote:

> Kevin K wrote:
> > -Not all CDMA phones have AMPS support. The main difference here is
> > that many CDMA phones do support it, but nearly all GSM phones do not.
>
> With the exception of a few PDA units from Sprint, all the phones are
> AMPS capable.


Like the Treo I owned.

Emylno wrote:
> What do you people think of Cingular?
>

Around here, the choices are NEXTEL/Sprint, US Cellular, and Cingular.
Personally, I am on Cingular with three phones.

The NEXTEL/Sprint coverage should be best since NEXTEL spent a lot of
$$$ putting towers in the area.

Before that US Cellular was king for coverage.

Cingular coverage is OK to great here. I find few dead spots in the
area.

What has kept me as a customer is the rollover. With a daughter in
college, the rollover minutes are a great feature. Additionally, when
I travel, there have been few places where my phone did not work (those
places also included spots where other carriers did not work as well).

Customer service is adequate. When I have called, the business is
really short (my choice, not there's). The CSR I get tend to be
friendly and helpful (though the local store really seems to take care
of my needs best). I have learned to use the automated system. My
questions are answered much faster that way.

Lloyd Colston, agent
http://ld.net/?kc5fm

SMS wrote:
> However I also have done testing in other states. I.e., last year I was
> in Maryland, and took the Washington Metro into D.C.. The Verizon phone
> worked fine on the underground parts of the Metro, the Cingular did not
> work at all.

Yesterday I was surprised to find a usable signal on the upper
underground platform at Le'Enfant (Yellow/Green lines). A few spot
checks at other stations showed no signal.

Is something bleeding in from the street, or is Cingular starting to
get access to Metro?

tg.

tom glaab wrote:
> SMS wrote:
>> However I also have done testing in other states. I.e., last year I was
>> in Maryland, and took the Washington Metro into D.C.. The Verizon phone
>> worked fine on the underground parts of the Metro, the Cingular did not
>> work at all.
>
> Yesterday I was surprised to find a usable signal on the upper
> underground platform at Le'Enfant (Yellow/Green lines). A few spot
> checks at other stations showed no signal.
>
> Is something bleeding in from the street, or is Cingular starting to
> get access to Metro?

How does the Metro work in terms of allowing cell sites inside the
system? BART chargers the carriers for access, $1700 per month, per
carrier, per station.

SMS wrote:
> How does the [DC] Metro work in terms of allowing cell sites inside the
> system?

WMATA allowed one cellular carrier to wire the system back when there
were only two providers. The company now known as Verizon Wireless got
the contract. I'm not sure when that contract expires, but it might be
real soon now and other carriers are being allowed to get in. Verizon
has many of the tubes covered as well as underground stations.

tg.

Emylno Wrote:
> What do you people think of Cingular?
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is it cingular or back to att now that SBC that owns 60% of cingular
just changed names back to att?

Fun huh..

sorry they are too easy to pick on.

The cingular/att network integration is not complete. during the
process of the "merger" all tdma service is getting turn off, all blue
handsets are being forced to orange. With the two different sims "blue
and orange" they won't handoff to each others towers causing dropped
calls. Due to the forced migration from orange to blue, the network is
congested. Funny how they forced you over then didn't see the problem
of putting all those people on one network and not building out for it?


so that being said.. Gee Orange looks great that is to the competitors.


Edge is slow.. for data.

cingular has a real issue with not wanting to compete on price.. they
are convinced they have the "best" product and can charge for them.

They have some great "yes men" at the highest levels.. oh yes.. it will
work.

I'm a agent for orange "cingular/att" , tmobile, verizon and sprint.. I
won't sell orange to a business.. from billing issues to terrible
customer service..

raising the bar means.... your budget, pay more for less.. I get it!


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eatoranges