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Old Toad
Citizen
Username: Skewer1
Post Number: 14
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 7:18 pm: | 
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What cellphone services work well / don't work well in the towns around here? Cingular used to be bad but now they make claims that they have the fewest dropped calls on average. Are they for real? I've used TMobile and Verizon with good results, but need to upgrade my phone & contract and that gives me opportunity to move to a new one if better. |
anotherkittie
Citizen
Username: Anotherkittie
Post Number: 10
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 7:36 pm: |
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We've tried cingular, t-mobile and verizon with the best results from verizon. That said, smack in town seems to be a dead zone, as does my kitchen. |
ML
Supporter
Username: Ml1
Post Number: 2985
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 7:58 pm: |
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I've had AT&T/Cingular, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon, and I'd concur that Verizon and T-Mobile seem to be the best in town. |
greenetree
Supporter
Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 7357
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 7:59 pm: |
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Verizon. Center of town - forget it. |
Newstead
Citizen
Username: Newstead77
Post Number: 45
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 8:07 pm: |
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We just switched from Verizon to T-Mobile. While we still have the same dead spots in the reservation, the reception within the home is significantly better |
Tofugrl3
Citizen
Username: Tofugrl3
Post Number: 13
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 8:28 pm: |
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I just switched from Cingular to Verizon. Love it. Fewer dropped calls than with Cingular. |
Lou
Citizen
Username: Flf
Post Number: 118
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 8:46 pm: |
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I use Verizon and have had no problems anywhere. |
red
Citizen
Username: Redy67
Post Number: 5403
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 8:49 pm: |
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I had Verizon, great cell service, but horrible customer service. I changed to Sprint recently, and surprisingly I get great service everywhere, including Maplewood. |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13822
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, April 24, 2006 - 7:53 am: |
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T-Mobile's customer service is great, from my view. Their rates are also the best.
T-Mobile offers a coverage map, so you can decide before you buy if the critical places are covered well.
The service has some dead spots in South Orange and Maplewood. Its coverage in downtown Maplewood is excellent, even deep inside the shops.
Once you finish your year's contract, they don't renew you automatically. You will probably choose to renew, though, in order to get their latest deal. Their rates keep going down.
I suggest you go to phone stores OWNED by the providers so you can try before you commit. Take it home for a week or so and return it if the coverage disappoints you.
Cingular and T-Mobile use GSM technology which means you can transfer your SIM card to a borrowed phone and use it as if it's yours.
Cingular's claim of least drop calls does not say if initiating calls is more successful than with other services. Fewer dropped calls are nice, but it's not the whole picture. It's like saying you're buying a car with the most shoulder room for rear passengers. That's nice. What are the other measurements?
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Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13823
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, April 24, 2006 - 8:22 am: |
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Here is T-Mobile's coverage map: http://compass.t-mobile.com/Default.aspx
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Amateur Night
Citizen
Username: Deborahg
Post Number: 1833
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, April 24, 2006 - 9:54 am: |
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I just switched from T-Mobile to Verizon. Either are fine in MSO, but Verizon is MUCH better in the city (including Penn Station and the train tunnel). So if you go into the city regularly, beware TMobile. |
MichaelaM
Citizen
Username: Mayquene
Post Number: 163
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Monday, April 24, 2006 - 5:45 pm: |
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If you get a Verizon phone, you might want to avoid the LG models. They seem to get worse reception than Verizon's Motorolas. |
letters
Citizen
Username: Letters016
Post Number: 520
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Monday, April 24, 2006 - 9:55 pm: |
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MichaelaM,
Wow. I experienced the direct opposite. I have Verizon and had 3 different Motorala phones in a row. Always had trouble with them. My daughter also had Motorola, but with AT&T and she also had trouble. I switched to the LG after talking with co-workers who had them and have had zero trouble since. My wife, son and sister-in-law all have LG now and they have been fine. I know my daughter switched phones, but to honest, I am not sure to what.
Still, service in town (Mpwd) is fine until you get into some stores, not all, but some. This problem should be fixed whenever the new tower goes up. |
sportsnut
Citizen
Username: Sportsnut
Post Number: 2385
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - 7:17 am: |
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I recently switched from an AT&T Wirless GSM plan to a Cingular plan. Received all new phones and I couldn't be happier. As I had mentioned in a post a while back our AT&T reception became much more tolerable after I switched to an alternative technology. Prior to the change I was never able to make or receive phone calls in my home, now I have no problem doing either. I'll have to ask my wife about reception in the city since I hardly ever travel to the city. I also have never had a problem whenever I travel to other cities. The added bonus is that I never use all the minutes that I buy (we had three phones) and the carryover feature of Cingular allowed me to reduce the total number of monthly minutes I purchase and saved us about $40 per month. |
letters
Citizen
Username: Letters016
Post Number: 522
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - 7:40 am: |
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sportsnut,
That is the one complaint that I have with Verizon, you can't carry over unused minutes. However, since I have 4 phones on the plan and we are scattered all about on any given day, the price per phone, around $20/month, is worth it to me. I only went over my minutes once in 8 years, and that was a particularly disastrous month.
Now if I can only figure out a way to replace my land-line with the cells, it would be great. I think this is possible, or soon to be, with the cable phone service (forwarding calls, et al) but still that would mean another monthly fee to consider.
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Scully
Citizen
Username: Scully
Post Number: 353
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - 12:30 pm: |
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I remain happy with Cingular, especially within
the past year or so (reception quality suddenly
went WAY up, a new tower must have gone up or
something).
Works just fine in both Maplewood and South Orange
Centers, and I have the little basic free-if-you-
sign-up-for-two-years model. |
taam
Citizen
Username: Taam
Post Number: 159
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - 5:31 pm: |
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i have cingular & have been happy with it. |
MichaelaM
Citizen
Username: Mayquene
Post Number: 167
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - 6:12 pm: |
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Cingular acquired AT&T mobile some time ago -- maybe that explains the improvement in reception.
Perhaps it's not the make -- Motorola vs. LG -- but the model? I have a Motorola V265, I think. |
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