Wait a minute....A while back I called Cingular to bitch about not getting service in an area around H-burg and I told them Verizon is crystal clear there. They told me that can't be, b/c they use the same towers. F-ers.
What cell company do you use?
I was wondering what cell company people are using and what they think of the service.
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I got Cingular. Anybody have that SLVR phone yet? You know, the ine w/ itunes...
mobile phone companies are a rippoff, but there's no other option other than getting a 2-meter amatuer license.
if you look at the charges, there's extra surcharges added which should of been absorbed in the cost of doing business. what the h*ll is a usage charge? i can understand the governmental surcharges and fees, but two additional surcharges on top of that?
i have verizon. all my wife's friends (out of state) have verizon. therefore all calls are in-network and free. She averages 3000 minutes.
i'm the account exec for mobile phones here at work, and we currently use sprint. it's not the best service. we also had t-mobile which was much better for our international users. nextel is cheap, so is their service/network. i think walkie-talkie phones are annoying.
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if you look at the charges, there's extra surcharges added which should of been absorbed in the cost of doing business. what the h*ll is a usage charge? i can understand the governmental surcharges and fees, but two additional surcharges on top of that?
i have verizon. all my wife's friends (out of state) have verizon. therefore all calls are in-network and free. She averages 3000 minutes.
i'm the account exec for mobile phones here at work, and we currently use sprint. it's not the best service. we also had t-mobile which was much better for our international users. nextel is cheap, so is their service/network. i think walkie-talkie phones are annoying.
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Very annoying...but I have one for work.Back _Marker said:mobile phone companies are a rippoff, but there's no other option other than getting a 2-meter amatuer license.
if you look at the charges, there's extra surcharges added which should of been absorbed in the cost of doing business. what the h*ll is a usage charge? i can understand the governmental surcharges and fees, but two additional surcharges on top of that?
i have verizon. all my wife's friends (out of state) have verizon. therefore all calls are in-network and free. She averages 3000 minutes.
i'm the account exec for mobile phones here at work, and we currently use sprint. it's not the best service. we also had t-mobile which was much better for our international users. nextel is cheap, so is their service/network. i think walkie-talkie phones are annoying.
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Yep...annoying..great for work but annoying! No great way to ignore them...
Anybody seen the new cingular 2 way... with the ability to appear "offline"??????????
Anybody seen the new cingular 2 way... with the ability to appear "offline"??????????
Ok here is the low down.
Cingular and T-Mobile use a technology called GSM (unless you have a really old Cingular phone it could be TDMA)
Sprint and Nextel use CDMA
Completely diffrent technologies. NExt with Cingular and T-Mobile they only share towers in some markets for the most part t-mobile has high coverage in large cities and Cingular is nation wide (although lacking in quality in the rural from what my customers tell me).
Cingular and T-Mobile use a technology called GSM (unless you have a really old Cingular phone it could be TDMA)
Sprint and Nextel use CDMA
Completely diffrent technologies. NExt with Cingular and T-Mobile they only share towers in some markets for the most part t-mobile has high coverage in large cities and Cingular is nation wide (although lacking in quality in the rural from what my customers tell me).
i have been in the tower industry just over 2 years.
sprint is the way to go. they spend alot of money on ther equipment and they are also a pain in the @$$ to work for because they are so through with everything and require so much testing ect... but it does depend on where you are at too. different companies cover different areas. but i think when sprint starts to merge with nextel and the start becoming 1 than they will have the market. they are already using smaller companys and funding these companys for the country areas.
sprint is the way to go. they spend alot of money on ther equipment and they are also a pain in the @$$ to work for because they are so through with everything and require so much testing ect... but it does depend on where you are at too. different companies cover different areas. but i think when sprint starts to merge with nextel and the start becoming 1 than they will have the market. they are already using smaller companys and funding these companys for the country areas.
I used to work for a company testing games and applications on cell phones. The cool part was just that, at least for people who are really "into" cell phones, I got to try out pretty much every phone on every carrier. Honestly, Cingular was one of the better performers and that's why I'm with them today. In my opinion:
Verizon - Overpriced voice, data, and handsets but had the best data plans available and decent customer service, especially if you were on a business plan. If you could get a handset on the internet and unlock it then you'd be ok for a decent phone and like an evdo/bluetooth setup.
T-Mobile - Had the best selection of handsets and the best price offerings of anyone we tested but also had just about the worst service and worst support.
Cingular - Kind of a middle ground of handset choice/service/support, at least since the AT&T merger. Before that AT&T had the absolute best support (IF you had a business plan) and decent service. The odd part was that AT&T phones had an unreasonably high amount of confused calls (where two people who were trying to make calls at the same time get their calls switched up).
Sprint - Sprint had decent service and decent support but I have to say I hated every single handset I ever used with them and that's why I could never go with them. For someone who's into phones, there's not much you can do with them. If you try to hack them they won't work with 90% of the proprietary services Sprint offers. And as far as loading Java apps and stuff, all the other phones have some sort of Jar file uploader but Sprint makes you compress it or something in a weird way and upload it to some server and download it via your phones browser or something. I've heard of great prices/plans people have gotten and really bad ones as well. HOWEVER, if you're just looking for a phone to make and receive calls (not much more), then Sprint may be your best choice.
Nextel - Nextel really does provide great business phones because (a) there's not much else to do with them besides talk and (b) they're some of the sturdiest phones I've ever seen available to the public. Some of these tough Motorolas they offer are really tough. We've dropped them a couple stories and they're cool. I've dropped my Nokia 3 feet and cracked the lcd/severely messed it up. I don't think they're great for personal phones.
EDIT - Oh, and btw if you can't tell I make a lot of my decisions based on handsets available and right now I have a RAZR and it's one of the best phones I've ever owned. It has great battery life (not as great as the 6210 I had last but still awesome), it was easy to unlock (again, not as easy as the 6210 but still easier than a lot of phones), very customizable, decent screen, looks great, it was very easy to tether to my laptop for data, and fits well when using. On the downside it's a little slow, doens't use EDGE, and the screen res could be higher. But, it's still just about the greatest phone I've ever had.
Verizon - Overpriced voice, data, and handsets but had the best data plans available and decent customer service, especially if you were on a business plan. If you could get a handset on the internet and unlock it then you'd be ok for a decent phone and like an evdo/bluetooth setup.
T-Mobile - Had the best selection of handsets and the best price offerings of anyone we tested but also had just about the worst service and worst support.
Cingular - Kind of a middle ground of handset choice/service/support, at least since the AT&T merger. Before that AT&T had the absolute best support (IF you had a business plan) and decent service. The odd part was that AT&T phones had an unreasonably high amount of confused calls (where two people who were trying to make calls at the same time get their calls switched up).
Sprint - Sprint had decent service and decent support but I have to say I hated every single handset I ever used with them and that's why I could never go with them. For someone who's into phones, there's not much you can do with them. If you try to hack them they won't work with 90% of the proprietary services Sprint offers. And as far as loading Java apps and stuff, all the other phones have some sort of Jar file uploader but Sprint makes you compress it or something in a weird way and upload it to some server and download it via your phones browser or something. I've heard of great prices/plans people have gotten and really bad ones as well. HOWEVER, if you're just looking for a phone to make and receive calls (not much more), then Sprint may be your best choice.
Nextel - Nextel really does provide great business phones because (a) there's not much else to do with them besides talk and (b) they're some of the sturdiest phones I've ever seen available to the public. Some of these tough Motorolas they offer are really tough. We've dropped them a couple stories and they're cool. I've dropped my Nokia 3 feet and cracked the lcd/severely messed it up. I don't think they're great for personal phones.
EDIT - Oh, and btw if you can't tell I make a lot of my decisions based on handsets available and right now I have a RAZR and it's one of the best phones I've ever owned. It has great battery life (not as great as the 6210 I had last but still awesome), it was easy to unlock (again, not as easy as the 6210 but still easier than a lot of phones), very customizable, decent screen, looks great, it was very easy to tether to my laptop for data, and fits well when using. On the downside it's a little slow, doens't use EDGE, and the screen res could be higher. But, it's still just about the greatest phone I've ever had.
Out of all the phones we should just say what the worst are.. I would say for the most part i deal with returns on Sony Erricsons and LG phones.. Stay away from those.. Nokia and Motorola have been in the business long enough to make decent devices.. Motorola however does have alot of issues with network strength. Lots of cusotmers call with both copanies of phones and they always say nokia has a stronger signal.cycledesign said:I used to work for a company testing games and applications on cell phones. The cool part was just that, at least for people who are really "into" cell phones, I got to try out pretty much every phone on every carrier. Honestly, Cingular was one of the better performers and that's why I'm with them today. In my opinion:
Verizon - Overpriced voice, data, and handsets but had the best data plans available and decent customer service, especially if you were on a business plan. If you could get a handset on the internet and unlock it then you'd be ok for a decent phone and like an evdo/bluetooth setup.
T-Mobile - Had the best selection of handsets and the best price offerings of anyone we tested but also had just about the worst service and worst support.
Cingular - Kind of a middle ground of handset choice/service/support, at least since the AT&T merger. Before that AT&T had the absolute best support (IF you had a business plan) and decent service. The odd part was that AT&T phones had an unreasonably high amount of confused calls (where two people who were trying to make calls at the same time get their calls switched up).
Sprint - Sprint had decent service and decent support but I have to say I hated every single handset I ever used with them and that's why I could never go with them. For someone who's into phones, there's not much you can do with them. If you try to hack them they won't work with 90% of the proprietary services Sprint offers. And as far as loading Java apps and stuff, all the other phones have some sort of Jar file uploader but Sprint makes you compress it or something in a weird way and upload it to some server and download it via your phones browser or something. I've heard of great prices/plans people have gotten and really bad ones as well. HOWEVER, if you're just looking for a phone to make and receive calls (not much more), then Sprint may be your best choice.
Nextel - Nextel really does provide great business phones because (a) there's not much else to do with them besides talk and (b) they're some of the sturdiest phones I've ever seen available to the public. Some of these tough Motorolas they offer are really tough. We've dropped them a couple stories and they're cool. I've dropped my Nokia 3 feet and cracked the lcd/severely messed it up. I don't think they're great for personal phones.
i have cingular and a motorola phone and so far am pretty satisfied with both. no major problems with either, so that's a good thing. i recently downsized my plan from the 450 minutes/month to 200 minutes, i only use about 150 minutes/month ever. i have like 4000 rollover minutes accumulated. the thing that gets me is that by downsizing my plan i lose my mobile to mobile calling and rollover minutes options. that is a rip-off there! i mean, i am trying to save myself $20 here a month. why should i pay for minutes i am not using. so i guess they always find a way to get you coming or going. i'm gonna try it for a month and see how close i come to using all my minutes.
Fair enough. Thats the bigest complaint. The $29.99 plan has no rollover and no M2M. The other thing is if ytou had been on the $59.99 plan and had like 4000 min rolling forward and then moved it down to the $39.99 plan they only allow you to keep as many rollover min as your plan has.. which means bye bye 4000 rollover and hello 450.itgirl25 said:i have cingular and a motorola phone and so far am pretty satisfied with both. no major problems with either, so that's a good thing. i recently downsized my plan from the 450 minutes/month to 200 minutes, i only use about 150 minutes/month ever. i have like 4000 rollover minutes accumulated. the thing that gets me is that by downsizing my plan i lose my mobile to mobile calling and rollover minutes options. that is a rip-off there! i mean, i am trying to save myself $20 here a month. why should i pay for minutes i am not using. so i guess they always find a way to get you coming or going. i'm gonna try it for a month and see how close i come to using all my minutes.
I haven't any problems with Verizon's air service...but I would rather get a root canal than call/deal with their "customer :cursin: Service"???
hmmm, I have verizon and a motrola phone, so far I am pretty satisfied with both...i left sprint to go to t-mobile and from there to verizon...so far verizon has been the best in all areas...t-mobile was cool, then they quit caring about the customers...as for my phone...i have had alot of phones and never really had many complaints...except a samsung 100 yrs ago...nokia was always good but I prefer flip phones...the motorola i have now is awesome, I get a signal everywhere, most noticibly where all the new phones dont work...on military bases, bfe...etc...but i really like the look of that new "pebble" coming out, anyone got one yet??
Twisty, can you hear me now????? :scratch: Verizon, Verizon, Verizon! Helps that a good buddy works there and gets me new phones every few months and a sweet 25% discount.
Cycledesign... a good write up!
Sprint has worked out great for me, most of the country you will have service:cheers: Customer service not the best, everytime I switch plans takes two billing cycles before all billing problems are worked out:crazy:
Verizon coast to coast.
What's that? Cost to Cost? Is that some new fangiled pay code?jeeps84 said:Verizon cost to cost.
OopsGas Man said:What's that? Cost to Cost? Is that some new fangiled pay code?
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