Time to dump Cingular and move to a new carrier...

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tnf
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Time to dump Cingular and move to a new carrier...

Post by tnf »

My two years of a dysfunctional relationship with cingular are now up, and I am free at last to leave their dogshit service that routinely dropped calls in the middle of places like:
downtown seattle,
downtown portland,
downtown almost anywhere cingular covers.


sooo...now for the decision. Who to go with?

How many of you use Verizon, and are they worth a shit?
andyman
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Post by andyman »

i use verizon and haven't had any problems at all with coverage or anything. plus I can check my email on my phone and stuff.
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Post by R00k »

Yea, I used Cingular for a two year contract as well. I dumped them the day after my contract expired. I also had dropped calls or no signal, in places like downtown, right around major business districts, and even my house, which is 3 miles from downtown.

Here in Nashville Verizon has great service. They are also about to introudce their wireless broadband service that will let you hook up a laptop or PC to your phone and get a decent speed internet connection. I think Verizon is going places.

Sprint is also a good carrier here, which is what I have. I'm happy with my phone, service, and the package I paid for, and I don't have any of the reception problems I had with Cingular.
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R00k wrote:Yea, I used Cingular for a two year contract as well. I dumped them the day after my contract expired. I also had dropped calls or no signal, in places like downtown, right around major business districts, and even my house, which is 3 miles from downtown.

Here in Nashville Verizon has great service. They are also about to introudce their wireless broadband service that will let you hook up a laptop or PC to your phone and get a decent speed internet connection. I think Verizon is going places.

Sprint is also a good carrier here, which is what I have. I'm happy with my phone, service, and the package I paid for, and I don't have any of the reception problems I had with Cingular.
Did you get the thing where you'd go from 5 bars to 0 bars in the span of about 2 feet in a metropolitan area...pretty much all the time? I was always dancing around the street trying to keep my bars up.
the worst was when a fucking call would drop, and you wouldn't know, so you'd keep rambling for 2 minutes and then see that the call was over...
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Post by R00k »

Yep, the exact same thing. For a while, I would think it was because I had moved the phone to a bad place or something. I would move around trying to find the sweet spot again, but never found it. It was almost like their towers just had built-in EMP's that would randomly shut down service for no reason. It was ridiculously frustrating.

I can remember times I was asking myself why I even paid for mobile service, because it was so unreliable I almost completely stopped using it. I couldn't tell people to call me when we would be downtown around the same time, because I couldn't be sure I'd get the call. A lot of my friends just gave up trying to call me. It turned into a running joke for a while, because nearly everybody else I knew had Sprint or Verizon.
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Post by raw »

Speaking of which, I'll be in Nashiville in 2 weeks.
tnf
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Post by tnf »

if you ever make it up the pacific northwest let me know.


we'll go fisihing.
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Post by Dr_Watson »

i havn't had a single problem with sprint in the last 3 years.
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Post by +JuggerNaut+ »

Verizon is teh win. 5 year customer for business. have tmobile for personal which is also really good.
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Post by Chupacabra »

i too like sprint. i dont know which is better...verizon or sprint as ive never used verizon but i've had no problems with sprint.
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Post by R00k »

raw wrote:Speaking of which, I'll be in Nashiville in 2 weeks.
What's bringing you to Nashvegas?

If you've got any free time while you're in town I'll show you what Southern hospitality really is. :drool:
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Post by raw »

I'm coming up with a co-worker to get one of the companies we bought on our corporate network. I'll be there on the 22nd I think and I'll be leaving 2 days later (Sunday).
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Post by R00k »

Cool, ICQ me one night this week.

What kind of co-worker? :paranoid:
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