Cellular phones topics - Re: Cingular screws over AT&T Free2Go customers after merger

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Re: Cingular screws over AT&T Free2Go customers after merger

Steven M. Scharf

2005-05-19, 11:52 am

"Rod" <cellular-dude@sprintpcs.com> wrote in message
news:l9Age.1029$sb5.58@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com...
> Hopefully they will start activating GSM before the TDMA network is turned
> off. These rates that don't expire would be a good thing with GSM.

7-11 Speak-Out has a 1 year expiration, with a $25 air-time card, on
Speak-Out. But you must buy a phone from them, they won't sell just a SIM
card. It is 20 cents per minute.

The problem is that in many areas the GSM coverage is pretty bad, i.e. the
SF Bay Area, or non-existent. You also don't get AMPS back-up on GSM, which
you get with TDMA. For a phone that you want to be able to use only for
urgent matters, you want it to work in as wide an area as possible, which
means having AMPS coverage.

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