t-mobile vs. verizon vs. cingular vs. sprint

verizon the last person i would chose thios is because evey1 else has better priceingg. order t-mobile (beacuse good reception here)then cingular, then sprintand lastly verizon this is because reception suk here. also they charge for roaming every1 else get it free. there data plan is way costly even thought it like sprint but u save money with sprint.

Last edited by tampadelphian on Fri Apr 06, 2007 3:52 pm, edited 1 time in total

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workging for cingular why do we have t-mobile customers call all the time asking about OUR towers (when the roaming agreements change some customer's in whole cities and areas lose ALL their coverage) and they exsaust all their efforts to call cingular and ask about the toweres they USED to get service on. (hmm maybe they should just get service from cingular and save the trouble) someoen explained the tower thing the govt only lets certain providers who are licensed to provide service in that specific area. so if cingular builds toweres for future licencing in an area they HAVE to lease ther service it to someone else (and have "roaming" of their own customers) until they can buy the other provider's contract with the FCC out.. (they only license a limited number of carriers in each city/area)

It is very hard to determine who is the actual best company because u have to kind of average out all the stregnths and weaknesses, but handsdown sprint is the worst! I got at least 1 to 2 problems a month with them wheather its over reception, billing mistakes etc. I guess a problem once or twice a year is fine, but once or twice a month?? thats horrible. plus i think i agree with Steve0092 about the cdma. i usually get better service at night when people arent using their phones but in the day time its basically nothing. becuz he said that it goes by how many people are calling at that time and i think that info is accurate.

i really want tmobile especially the T319 . my friend has it and it has the clearest call quality that i have ever heard in my life.

All of Verizon's current plans offer free roaming and long distance, so I don't know why steve would think that they did. man1234 is right, every carrier has their strenths and weaknesses. Verizon's network is the most reliable (according to consumer reports). Cingular has the largest subscriber base for free mobile to mobile. t-mobiles rates are rather low. I just took a road trip from Dallas to Colorado Springs with two friends. I carry Verizon, one of my friends had Sprint and the other had T-Mobile.

T-Mobile reception was very scarce, he only got reception around a few larger cities. My other friend has Sprint and actually had reception for about two thirds of the trip. I can say that my dual band LG 9800 only lost reception for about 30 minutes (right around the New Mexico/Colorado border). I was on extended network with one bar for a ways, but I was still able to make and recieve calls.

Now for me, reception is everything. I will gladly pay extra for something that I can rely on, and the only place in all of Dallas that I have any problem with reception is in my bedroom (funnily enough). But I have yet to find a phone that works well in my apartment.

You people-really haha...for the person who thinks that T-Mobile has the most towers...do us all a favor and go back to pre-school. They couldn't carry the big boys lunches! Verizon and cingular are by F A R the best of the main 4. Actually T-Mobile isnt even considered in the main...its verizon, cingular, and Sprint. As for who has the best coverage-VERIZON!!! Just because your buddy has 5 bars with cingular and you have 0 with verizon doesnt mean there better! it depends on where you are. Sign up for 15 days and see who has the best reception in your area. Cingular's fewest dropped calls is bogus...look it up some time and read the fine print will you. Verizon isnt 100 % either. CDMA is the best out there and offeres the best service in the US. Around the world GMA is better. Verizon-cingular the best, then sprint, then US cellular, THEN T-Mobile.

CDMA is an ancient technology that puts unlimited uses on a tower? You can never get 5 bars with CDMA? <--these were quotes from previous posts.

1) CDMA DOES trace it's roots back to like WWII or something, but not in it's current form. That's like saying TV is ancient, obsolete technology. Well yeah, if your tv is a 1972 Curtis Mathis. CDMA is more secure, the quality of calls is clearer and it's an evolving technology, just like GSM (which roots back to TDMA). The benefit of CDMA is soft-switching between towers, meaning you seamlessly transfer, reducing dropped calls. As far as overloading towers with users...can't comment, but I have Verizon and my wife has Sprint (both CDMA) and neither one of us ever experience "network busy" messages when we make calls--I used to as a Nextel customer; that's one of the reasons I dropped them.

2) RE: 5 bars? You're right--I don't get 5 bars, because my Motorola KRZR K1M on Verizon only goes up to 4. We don't live too close to a Verizon tower, so I don't get 4 bars even outside, but I get about 3 outside and 1 or 2 inside my house. BUT, no skipping, cutting out or dropped calls even with one bar. There are sometimes when I have 0 bars and yet the Network name still displays and I can still make calls fine. Read about that online and you'll see that's just the way CDMA is. Have you ever considered that each cell phone is different in terms of how it registers a signal? My wife used to have a Samsung phone that never got more than one bar (out of up to 4) in our house...her new LG phone gets 3 or 4 (out of 6 total) but neither phone dropped calls. This is why I don't buy Cingular's raising the bar claim...first, I haven't seen it to be true; they make it sound like you get 4 to 5 bars anywhere, but the other day driving on I-75 in central and north florida with a friend who has Cingular (and his phone is fairly new and not a lower end phone) he had several places of no signal where I didn't --and even when we both had one bar in some places, I was able to make calls fine.

SO, I'm not sure how relevant bars really are for CDMA - it's not been my experience that you need 4 bars for a good quality CDMA call.

Finally, whoever said GSM is a global standard...that isn't true either. Unless you have a QUAD BAND phone with Cingular or T-Mobile, you aren't using your phone out of this country; sorry to burst your bubble. The US uses 800 & 1900 mhz, while the world GSM standard seems to be 900mhz and 1800 mhz (900 being the more common). Most of the current Cingular lineup is now quad-band, but that's only a recent change. Most of the RAZRs are quad band though, in case you're wondering. I personally don't travel enough outside of the country to need it (and plus, CDMA works GREAT in Canada on the Telus network) and plus, all you people who bought GSM phones for that reason (you bought a GSM phone that you'll keep for 2 years, even though you'll be out of the country probably 1 week during that entire time - great logic) are sacrificing better call quality (most CDMA calls people can't tell you're on a cell phone--can't say that for GSM) when you use it the most...HERE in the states. If I travel to Europe, I'll rent a phone. If I went I'd be going on vacation anyway and wouldn't want to on my cell phone 2 hours a day.

Anyway, I weighed the options and I chose Verizon and the call quality has been awesome. I've had Nextel, AT&T, Sprint & Cingular in the past by the way.

I live in Southern California area and mostly satisfied with T-Mobile service overall. Customer service deserves a special mention because frankly it’s outstanding of course that’s just in my experience. BTW Customer service and tech support is 24/7 all the time should you need it.. Something that can’t be said for some of the bigger carriers. Now I do occasionally get dropped calls but not much. Static can be a problem but it’s only on rare occasions. I think call quality has a lot to do with the type of phone used, as with each phone upgrade I find clarity seems to get better.

Personally as of writing this I’d switch to Verizon if the price was equal to T-Mobile but it’s not and for my use the increase in call quality isn’t dramatic enough to justify the price jump. I get 1000min plus night & weekends for $39.99 (They have since raised prices for new customers btw). I can keep my rate so long as I don't adjust my plan. I’m just not going to give that up yet.

I’m glad to hear that T-Mobile isn’t content to remain a lower tier competitor to Verizon etc. Over the coming years T-Mobile and parent company Germany's Deutsche telekom plan to invest billions of dollars upgrading their network and should eventually equal Verizon.. Waiting will give them a price advantage over Verizon which can be passed on to the consumer hopefully. So hang on for 3-G and more is coming soon. That’s enough for me to wait.

http://www.forbes.com/technology/infrastructure/2006/10/06/t-mobile-3g -launch-tech-intel-cx_df_1006tmobile.html

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