Verizon vs. Cingular / AT&T

Verizon no longer has any roaming fees associated with using analog networks, unless you are under a plan the predates Jan 2005 or in Canada.

If you're planning a trip to Europe, Asia, Middle East, and so forth...leave your Verizon cell phone at home. It won't work. It doesn't matter if you paid big bucks for that fancy gadget. GSM rules the world. Just buy a triband or quad band, unlocked phone and you are set to use it anywhere you go.

I never got charged for analog roaming. Actually analog is much better (connection wise) then Digital, and I will explain why below.

Last month we took a cruise to Bermuda. On the way back I was on deck about 20/25 miles away from the closes land form and digital was showing 6/7 bars on my Nokia 3589i. I tryed to connect to my voice mail. Nonthing. I tryed to call someone. It would drop the connection. I swiched that puppy into analog, and the call went right on through. The connection was a bit muffled and some static. (analog only showed 0/1 bar)

I wish they would not shut off analog off in 07, what if my personal boat was sinkng out 20/25 miles from shore, digital will do me NONTHING. But old analog will work for sure!

that thing about the sim cards is pretty convenient, unless u lose your phone altogether, but u can back it up through various options, especially bluetooth profiles. but just putting the chip in another gsm phone is great. and i just learned something else. a lot of people choose their network by who they know that also have that network, ie in-network calls, verizon has great following, reliable of course, and if your family and friends have verizon, then its a free call. but here's the thing. analog and digital. if your in an area where the closest tower is analog, that in-network doesn't matter, it applies to digital, even if it is another verizon cell., so you are actually using your mins, but u may not realize it, and u can probably get credit, but u would have to call every month to dispute the bill., so just more to think about.

well like the person said on the first page, it all depends on where you live simple is that. To me gsm is a good as cdma. I use a gsm phone and I get wonderful reception. So to me cdma is not better that gsm it may be newer technology but gsm is still as good.

Gsm is just as good if you don't like having high speed data. No REV A, I don't know what I would do without data. VERizon wireless has nationwide high speed data in several areas.

Holy Thread Bump JGull!

Yeah it's super cool to put your sim into a qaud band phone and travel all over Europe talking on your cell phone . . . until you get the international roaming charge, and then my friend you're cooked.

im more concered about the coverage though.i had verizon and cingular in MA/boston. verizon definitely had more reliable service although i didnt have TOO much to complain about with cingular.

however, right now im in LA with cingular, and I have to tell you it isnt the best. maybe its the commute I have going about 40 miles inland from the coast.but even so, I would expect service to be better around such a major city like LA. I wonder how verizon is in LA?

Back to the GSM issue with losing numbers due to the lack of SIM card in the CDMA VZW phones: The Backup Assistant is a downloadable application on any Get It Now capable VZW phone. The Backup Assistant is also free when registered at vzw.com (otherwise there is a $1.99 a month charge). The application saves a copy of the phonebook (including secondary numbers, notes attached to them and emails.etc) online, and whenever a new phone is activated the only thing to do is re-download the same application. Once redownloaded and used it will sync the phonebook from online back to the newly activated phone.

Well, although I have never been a Cingular customer, I have been with Verizon for 10 years. Back in the day, my phone had a sim card.that was great, until my phone fell into the lake.dead at the bottom. Sim didn't do me much good then. Or golly, how about the time my kid lost it. 2 Sims down. No #'s, no contacts.gosh I wish it were like the good old days when you actually HAD to commit to memory all those phone numbers:-) lol and you kids out there are thinking---what that heck is this person talking about? Remembering numbers? That is crazy talk!

But now I have all my info. beamed up to the mother station on a daily bases so if my phone decides to take a swim, or someones kid decides to loose it, all my information is safely contained and can be reinserted into another phone with a few simple keystrokes. YES big brother IS watching us.get used to it!

Every phone I have ever had with Verizon has been excellent. However, I am not into the fancy shmancy ones, I like simple, but with bells and whistles. My current one is practically indestructible, a LG 8300. Fell in the toilet a few months ago.fished it out, hit it with the blow dryer and still works great! Drop it on a daily basis.perfect!

Voice mail? Well I just push #1 and enter my password--mail starts playing. Guess I am not that high tech but that is pretty simple for me. I could push #86 or just call myself. And I kinda like to put in my password; makes me feel somewhat in control of who can listen to MY messages. But that's just me:-)

My personal greeting tells people to push * to leave a message, then they go directly to the BEEP. But hey, some people may like to listen to that nice lady tell them all about the various options they have for leaving a message. There are lonely people out there. Anyone calling a Verizon phone can push the * button and skip the message:-) Some folks don't know that, so I tell em in my greeting.

I have 5 lines with Verizon, and have had no issues with them. I get a new phone--with bells and whistles free every 2 years and can upgrade for a nominal price every year if I wanted to. If I am going to go over my minutes, I just bump up to the next plan for that month and bring it back the next. If there is a better plan being offered than the one I have, I can change. Sure sure sure, I have to extend my contract, but that doesn't bother me one bit cause I am very happy with Verizon as a cell phone carrier. And after 10 years of service with them, that says a lot!

Over and out,
Wit

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