How will phone number portability affect cell phone rates?

Rex wrote:
>
> Any thoughts on the above topic?
>
> I'm currently in the market for a new carrier, and rates seem to have gone
> down. I guess carriers are trying to lock people in before the number
> portability ruling goes into effect next month.
>
> Do you guys expect another price war after its implemented?
>
> Rex

The carriers are always competing. The next "price wars" will
be during the Christmas holidays, that's when they will battle
for your business. I have had most of the carriers at one
time or another .... and some aren't worth having.

ATT: I have them currently - fair to good. (8pm non-prime plan)

Cingular: Coverage wasn't that good; kept losing the signal

NEXTEL: Problems at the switch (phone co.) and the phone didn't
always ring. Direct connect worked very well.

SPRINT-PCS: Probably the worst experience in my life!

VERIZON: Never had service -- but I'm interested.

VOICESTREAM: Who are they?

(KM)

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Rex wrote:
>
> Any thoughts on the above topic?
>
> I'm currently in the market for a new carrier, and rates seem to have gone
> down. I guess carriers are trying to lock people in before the number
> portability ruling goes into effect next month.
>
> Do you guys expect another price war after its implemented?
>
> Rex

The carriers are always competing. The next "price wars" will
be during the Christmas holidays, that's when they will battle
for your business. I have had most of the carriers at one
time or another .... and some aren't worth having.

ATT: I have them currently - fair to good. (8pm non-prime plan)

Cingular: Coverage wasn't that good; kept losing the signal

NEXTEL: Problems at the switch (phone co.) and the phone didn't
always ring. Direct connect worked very well.

SPRINT-PCS: Probably the worst experience in my life!

VERIZON: Never had service -- but I'm interested.

VOICESTREAM: Who are they?

(KM)

[email protected] wrote:

> Rex wrote:
> VOICESTREAM: Who are they?

Rebranded as T-Mobile
http://www.voicestream.com/

[email protected] wrote:

> Rex wrote:
> VOICESTREAM: Who are they?

Rebranded as T-Mobile
http://www.voicestream.com/

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> Do you guys expect another price war after its implemented?
>
> Rex

The projected losers in LNP will likely be in a price war to
keep customers.

The projected winners probably will avoid a price war, as
it is not in their best interest.

I think that a lot of subscribers have matured and that they no
longer look only at price, since so many have been burned by
the carriers with lousy coverage (at least this applies to me and
many colleagues and relatives).

I have two relatives waiting for November 24th to dump AT&T
and move to Verizon, even though Verizon is more expensive.
One is actually happy with AT&T TDMA, the other has no signal
at all at her house in the East Bay (SF Bay Area), and they share
a plan so both will switch.

<[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Do you guys expect another price war after its implemented?
>
> Rex

The projected losers in LNP will likely be in a price war to
keep customers.

The projected winners probably will avoid a price war, as
it is not in their best interest.

I think that a lot of subscribers have matured and that they no
longer look only at price, since so many have been burned by
the carriers with lousy coverage (at least this applies to me and
many colleagues and relatives).

I have two relatives waiting for November 24th to dump AT&T
and move to Verizon, even though Verizon is more expensive.
One is actually happy with AT&T TDMA, the other has no signal
at all at her house in the East Bay (SF Bay Area), and they share
a plan so both will switch.

> I think that a lot of subscribers have matured and that they no
> longer look only at price, since so many have been burned by
> the carriers with lousy coverage (at least this applies to me and
> many colleagues and relatives).

You know, it's funny, but I'll bet 99 percent of cell phone users overall,
make 99 percent of their calls within their own metro city and hardly notice
the lousy coverage of some carriers outside of a metro area.

-Frank

> I think that a lot of subscribers have matured and that they no
> longer look only at price, since so many have been burned by
> the carriers with lousy coverage (at least this applies to me and
> many colleagues and relatives).

You know, it's funny, but I'll bet 99 percent of cell phone users overall,
make 99 percent of their calls within their own metro city and hardly notice
the lousy coverage of some carriers outside of a metro area.

-Frank

"Frank S" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> > I think that a lot of subscribers have matured and that they no
> > longer look only at price, since so many have been burned by
> > the carriers with lousy coverage (at least this applies to me and
> > many colleagues and relatives).
>
> You know, it's funny, but I'll bet 99 percent of cell phone users overall,
> make 99 percent of their calls within their own metro city and hardly
notice
> the lousy coverage of some carriers outside of a metro area.
>
> -Frank
>
>

You just described T-Mobile's business model.

Tom Veldhouse

"Frank S" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> > I think that a lot of subscribers have matured and that they no
> > longer look only at price, since so many have been burned by
> > the carriers with lousy coverage (at least this applies to me and
> > many colleagues and relatives).
>
> You know, it's funny, but I'll bet 99 percent of cell phone users overall,
> make 99 percent of their calls within their own metro city and hardly
notice
> the lousy coverage of some carriers outside of a metro area.
>
> -Frank
>
>

You just described T-Mobile's business model.

Tom Veldhouse

"Frank S" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> > I think that a lot of subscribers have matured and that they no
> > longer look only at price, since so many have been burned by
> > the carriers with lousy coverage (at least this applies to me and
> > many colleagues and relatives).
>
> You know, it's funny, but I'll bet 99 percent of cell phone users overall,
> make 99 percent of their calls within their own metro city and hardly
notice
> the lousy coverage of some carriers outside of a metro area.

Perhaps, but in large metro areas coverage is inconsistent throughout
the area, and people do travel throughout the area. I.e. in my area,
Verizon and AT&T TDMA have the best coverage by far, Cingular,
T-Mobile, Sprint, Nextel, and AT&T GSM, the worst. But in each
case you could find a location in the metro area where even the
carriers with the worst coverage are okay, and you can find areas
that the best carriers don't cover. I have only found one place
where my Verizon phone can't at least get an analog signal--
the East Palo Alto Ikea.

"Frank S" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> > I think that a lot of subscribers have matured and that they no
> > longer look only at price, since so many have been burned by
> > the carriers with lousy coverage (at least this applies to me and
> > many colleagues and relatives).
>
> You know, it's funny, but I'll bet 99 percent of cell phone users overall,
> make 99 percent of their calls within their own metro city and hardly
notice
> the lousy coverage of some carriers outside of a metro area.

Perhaps, but in large metro areas coverage is inconsistent throughout
the area, and people do travel throughout the area. I.e. in my area,
Verizon and AT&T TDMA have the best coverage by far, Cingular,
T-Mobile, Sprint, Nextel, and AT&T GSM, the worst. But in each
case you could find a location in the metro area where even the
carriers with the worst coverage are okay, and you can find areas
that the best carriers don't cover. I have only found one place
where my Verizon phone can't at least get an analog signal--
the East Palo Alto Ikea.

"Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:3f9d2dfd$0$75886
>
> You just described T-Mobile's business model.

Where I live, T-Mobile has lousy service inside the metro area too. They
are piggybacking on Cingular's GSM network, and Cingular also has poor
coverage of course.

"Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:3f9d2dfd$0$75886
>
> You just described T-Mobile's business model.

Where I live, T-Mobile has lousy service inside the metro area too. They
are piggybacking on Cingular's GSM network, and Cingular also has poor
coverage of course.

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 17:37:04 -0500, [email protected] wrote:

>The carriers are always competing. The next "price wars" will
>be during the Christmas holidays, that's when they will battle
>for your business. I have had most of the carriers at one
>time or another .... and some aren't worth having.
>
>ATT: I have them currently - fair to good. (8pm non-prime plan)
>
>Cingular: Coverage wasn't that good; kept losing the signal
>
>NEXTEL: Problems at the switch (phone co.) and the phone didn't
>always ring. Direct connect worked very well.
>
>SPRINT-PCS: Probably the worst experience in my life!
>
>VERIZON: Never had service -- but I'm interested.
>
>VOICESTREAM: Who are they?

If you've had them all why are you asking who they are? VoiceStream
doesn't exist anymore anyway. You really need to keep up.

And you do realize that your opinion is valuable to someone. You just
need to find out who that someone is.

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