Notice some TDMA phones are back...

....here in Houston we recently had GSM850 turned on, and in
conjunction with that, all the GSM phones were announced and all the
TDMA phones were taken off the website (except the GAIT phones).

After last weekend's GSM mishap, a couple of TDMA phones mysteriously
reappear on the website as available for sale (Nokia 2260 and 3560,
but no Motorola v60ti). Maybe TDMA not such a bad thing after all...

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People like you were the ones riding horse-drawn carriages that thought
an automobile going 40 mph would pull the skin off the human body. TDMA
is on its way out. We've discontinued TDMA activations altogether here
(except prepaid of course).

tz

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Didn't you read his post? Over the weekend, everyone with a GSM-only
phone was SOL when the GSM system went down in many of the 850 overlay
markets. I had no problem with my 6340i in Detroit, it just went over
to ATTWS. If it went dow one time, you can almost guarantee it will
happen again as they won't find every single thing that caused it to go
down.

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Chris

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[email protected] (Tom Z) wrote in article
<[email protected]>:
> People like you were the ones riding horse-drawn carriages that thought
> an automobile going 40 mph would pull the skin off the human body. TDMA
> is on its way out. We've discontinued TDMA activations altogether here
> (except prepaid of course).
>
> tz
>
> [posted via phonescoop.com]

[posted via phonescoop.com]

I'm sure the model T broke down a few times before it got rolling. The
6340i is a quick fix for the GSM transition. I live in Detroit and am
fully aware of the outage. That had nothing to do with the TYPE of
tower or anything; it was a routing problem. Ask any honest Cingular
rep from the Detroit market and they'll tell you that the 6340i has been
a problem child from the beginning.

tz


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[email protected] (Tom Z) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> People like you were the ones riding horse-drawn carriages that thought
> an automobile going 40 mph would pull the skin off the human body. TDMA
> is on its way out. We've discontinued TDMA activations altogether here
> (except prepaid of course).

Generally, however, new technologies bring improvements for the end-
user's experience. When the GSM switchover is 100% complete, this might
be true, but for now, your customers are suffering the switchover issues
(just like AT&T's) and not really realizing any advantages yet. Imagine if,
to make a bad analogy, buying a new CD player 15 years ago stopped
your radio from working. We'd still be using vinyl records.

You are essentially telling new customers we have a great nationwide
network, supplemented by roaming agreements providing coverage
anywhere in the US where there's wireless service. But since we no
longer activate TDMA phones, you only get to use a small subset of it,
or choose one of our two GAIT phones that have "issues."

So, if this prospective new customer didn't take, say, a cute little
Nokia 8265 with a National plan a couple of months ago when available,
he can now opt for a clunkier 6340 with similar coverage, or a
cute GSM-only phone with half the coverage.

And, frankly, if Cingular answers their complaints with smartass
horse-and-buggy analogies instead of viable solutions, they just
might be tempted to try a "stable" service like Verizon, who was
CDMA yesterday, CDMA today, and will still be CDMA tomorrow.

Before you flame, please accept this post in the sprit it's intended-
I'm a happy former Cingular customer (I moved out of Cingular
territory), a happy former Cingular dealer, and an SBC
stockholder. I just hope they survive this changeover with 90%
of their customer base intact.