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More info?)
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 06:38:32 GMT, Miles
<mileschap@REMOVEMEpacbell.net> wrote:
>Dave Schreiber wrote:
>> I live in the San Francisco Bay Area (Mountain View, specifically), and am
>> currently a Verizon subscriber. My contract just ended, and I'm trying to
>> decide if I want to stick with Verizon, or move to Cingular. I really
>> like Cingular's choice of phones, and I despise the way Verizon cripples
>> Bluetooth, but in the end, the most important thing for me is coverage.
>> And in the Bay Area, Verizon has had better coverage than Cingular for
>> years.
>>
>> But, when AT&T and Cingular merged, there was talk about Cingular moving
>> all their customers to 850MHz GSM from 1900MHz which would, in theory,
>> greatly improve coverage. What'd I like to know is: has this migration
>> happened in the Bay Area? If not, is Cingular planning on doing this
>> switch in the near future?
>>
>> I'd also appreciate hearing any general comments on how Cingular's
>> coverage has improved (if at all) in the Bay Area since the merged was
>> completed.
>>
>> Thanks very much.
>>
>
>Not certain what they are doing, but whatever it is it is working great!
>A few days ago I asked in the Cingular store in San Rafael as to their
>frequencies and speaking with two reps they didn't know! I do know that
>it works fine in San Rafael, Fairfax, Woodacre, Lagunitas, Olema, Point
>Reyes Station, Inverness and believe it or not even Camp Taylor. I'm
>using a Nokia 6250 900/1800/1900, and I tried the same route with a moto
>850 plus I don't recall, but it was not a quad band. Prior to acquiring
>AT&T Cingular did not work at all west of San Anselmo. Obviously they
>have now upgraded AT&T's towers, at least in this area. Best you ask a
>few Cingular customers -- friends or just walk into a few stores and ask
>the customers.
>
>Incidentally, it works fine with BT, but that is Nokia -- voice dialing
>via BT is a great advent for me. A few people have told me that during
>peak hours they cannot make connection -- Cingular is becoming too
>popular for their current abilities. One lady told me that in talking
>with Cingular in San Francisco that if someone is closer to the tower
>than you, you can me thrown off, and they get on!
>
>Miles
I don't think so. It's pretty much whoever is using the channel first
keeps it with GSM. Your call could drop if your call tries to move to
a tower that is busy but the only way you can get bumped is with that
newly implemented law enforcement priority I believe.
It may work differently with CDMA.