ChasingBlueSky 0 #1 October 27, 2004 Check this out. The merger with Cingular was made official this week. How it will effect you: http://www.newcingular.com_________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kbone 0 #2 October 28, 2004 One thing that should be made clear is that Cingular is absorbing AT&T wireless. The phone bills for AT&T customers will eventually say Cingular on them in a few months. Check out the Q&A section in the website. What sucks is that I don't have a GSM network phone and I will be pressured to buy one if I want to take advantage of the roll over minutes. I use the older TDMA phone. The reason I stayed with the older technology is because the AT&T GSM network sucks! Cingular has always been a GSM network, there is nothing wrong with GSM technology. AT&T is just too cheap to pay the enormous costs to upgrade their networks. This is no doubt the biggest reason that they sold their wireless division to an already successful GSM providor. Kbone Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pleifer 0 #3 October 28, 2004 At&t is a GSM provider.... or at least was when i had to get new service they no longer offered the duel mode... ie analog and digital phones.. so where I get a signal is more limited than before I was going to switch providers, thought according to Verison... (they were one of the few that would offer me a duel mode phone) the FCC is going to phase out analog towers by 2006... so I went with at&t's gsm.... _________________________________________ The Angel of Duh has spoke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChasingBlueSky 0 #4 October 28, 2004 AT&T was still offering Tri-Band phones (AMPS/Analog, TDMA and GSM) over the summer only in the stores, not online. You can still order the Siemens S46 Dual Band (TDMA/GSM) phone on the website. I was an early adopter to the AT&T GSM network with the S46 phone. That phone made the transition easy and allowed the phone to work in rural areas of Iowa, Georgia, Illinois and Kentucky without a problem. I had about 95% coverage driving from Chicago to Tampa using that phone with better connection and sound than any other phone I had before hand (I've been using cell phones for over ten years). Now I have a stand alone GSM Nokia 6200 phone and it works like a charm as well. In fact, it works in places my TDMA phone never worked. No, it didn't work in the middle of Iowa, but I just swapped the SIM card into my old S46 phone and had perfect coverage again. About three months ago AT&T changed their National plans so that if your GSM phone listed "Cingular or T-Mobile" as your roaming carrier at the moment, you would NOT be charged any roaming fees anymore. So, now with my GSM phone and the $39 national plan I have, I currently have more coverage because it will work on three distinct GSM networks. I like that I have more coverage because of this merger, however I feel that prices will go up in the short term due to lack of competition. Newer technology will be faster to hit the market with the combined license agreements that both companies have. "Push-To-Talk" will be coming to the new Cingular company early next year. Combine that with my free mobile to mobile and I am pretty happy with them...despite some terrible customer service._________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gravitymaster 0 #5 October 28, 2004 I have suffered through the tri-band technology I allowed At&T to convice me to get last year. Prior to that I had a Nokia 6160 dual band and althought it wasn't exactly great, it was much better than the tri-band. I was going to switch to Verizon in a few weeks when my contract with AT&T expires. Does anyone think it's worth giving Cingular a chance or do you think I'd be better off going to Verizon. I do travel to some rural areas where any cell service is going to be spotty. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChasingBlueSky 0 #6 October 28, 2004 Quote Does anyone think it's worth giving Cingular a chance or do you think I'd be better off going to Verizon. I do travel to some rural areas where any cell service is going to be spotty. I never used the Tri Band phones that had GSM on them, just the dual band. Personally, I would wait and see what happens with this new network. If you get into a Verizon contract and are unhappy with them, it will cost you to change. And I like the rollover minutes that we will get with this new company. Personally speaking, I know more people that have left Verizon due to poor coverage than AT&T. My phone works perfectly around Midway Airport and my brother is lucky to get a signal at times on his Verizon phone. I would suggest looking at Sprint over Verizon. I know a few jumpers that travel a lot and they said they had better luck with Sprint while traveling across the Southern US._________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumpwally 0 #7 October 28, 2004 kbone,,i don't know why you think it sucks,,my wife and i travel alot and no matter where we are apart our GSM ATT works great...50 states and Jamaica..so go fiqure,,maybe your phone is shit.... wallysmile, be nice, enjoy life FB # - 1083 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
livendive 8 #8 October 28, 2004 QuoteDoes anyone think it's worth giving Cingular a chance or do you think I'd be better off going to Verizon. I do travel to some rural areas where any cell service is going to be spotty. When I'm playing geologist instead of document monkey, I end up on sites that are typically 30-45 miles from anything remotely resembling a town, and I get reasonable reception with US Cellular (though often only analog). Blues, Dave"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeyRamone 0 #9 October 29, 2004 Brain, You should get a job as a spokes person, you sound like a true salesman... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChasingBlueSky 0 #10 October 29, 2004 QuoteBrain, You should get a job as a spokes person, you sound like a true salesman... Well, I am in sales.... I'm just a geek that has a decent handle on the consumer tech side of wireless. Plus I have been using this company for about five years now. Besides, the more people on AT&T, the more people I can call for free!_________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeyRamone 0 #11 October 29, 2004 I have used AT&T For 7... years Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
