Quake3World

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?

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.

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.

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...

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.

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


we'll go fisihing.

i havn't had a single problem with sprint in the last 3 years.

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

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.

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.

Cool, ICQ me one night this week.

What kind of co-worker?