Cellular phones topics - Re: Questions regarding the end of Cingular/T-Mobile network sharing:

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Re: Questions regarding the end of Cingular/T-Mobile network sharing:

Steven M. Scharf

2005-05-19, 11:52 am

<rishi@wheresmycell.com> wrote in message
news:1115584123.016639.178000@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Being away from the US for sometime, I was aware that Cingular and AT&T
> merged but I wasn't aware that Cingular & T-Mobiles' network sharing
> deal ended and that Cingular actually sold their CA & NV networks to
> T-Mobile, until recently.

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The big advantage to Cingular is that most of their GSM network is now at
800 Mhz (or they have both 800 Mhz and 1900 Mhz). The 1900 Mhz network is
markedly inferior (i.e. their old California/Nevada network). The merger
with AT&T really helped Cingular's California customers who wanted to use
their phones inside big buildings. Of course you have to get a dual band
phone to take advantage of this, and there are still a lot of Californians
with older 1900 Mhz only phones, that don't realize that if they'd change
handsets that they'd be much better off.

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