Verizon wireless - Re: Verizon is best carrier for third year. In SF Bay Area, it's 1-Verizon, 2-T-Mobile, 3-Sprint, 4

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Re: Verizon is best carrier for third year. In SF Bay Area, it's 1-Verizon, 2-T-Mobile, 3-Sprint, 4

Quick

2005-12-07, 5:48 pm

John Navas wrote:
> [POSTED TO alt.cellular.cingular - REPLY ON USENET PLEASE]
>
> In < 4fldp15r1pi9rf6dq76e
m6vg61k4q17j38@4ax.com> on Wed,
> 07 Dec 2005 07:31:58 -0500, Agent_C
> <Agent-C-hates-spam@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hard data on comparative coverage is non-public, so the
> best we can do is to infer it. Consumer surveys don't
> accurately reflect the combined Cingular coverage because
> of customers still on TDMA, still with old 32K orange
> SIMs (thus not ENS enabled), still with old orange
> handsets, or still with blue SIMs, among other factors
> (e.g., handset quality differences). Best coverage
> currently requires new 64K orange SIMs in good
> ENS-enabled devices, which is assumed both in my prior
> statements and in the following analysis:
>
> Cingular now uses both the blue (old ATTWS) and orange
> (old Cingular) networks here in Northern California.
> Blue alone arguably has the best single network coverage
> of any technology thanks to historical tower siting (by
> Cellular One/AirTouch). Orange had very good network
> coverage (thanks to PacBell). Combined they almost
> certainly give the best network coverage available. In
> fact it's quite easy to point to areas where combined
> Cingular GSM coverage is much better than Verizon,
> including many spots here in the Tri-Valley East Bay.
>
> If you do some checking with Google Groups, you'll see
> that Steven has a personal vendetta against GSM based
> just on a coverage problem at his wife's workplace that
> really pissed him off. Since then, even though he's now
> on Verizon, he lurks here to keep beating his anti-GSM
> drum. My guess is that in addition to having an axe to
> grind he craves attention and/or validation of his switch
> to Verizon. You'll also find that I've documented
> objective examples of clear bias, and that I have no
> technology bias -- I've consistently stated that CDMA and
> GSM are comparably capable technologies.

Hmmm. I have no bias against GSM. I do have a personal
vendetta against Cingular. Mine resulted from a lack of
coverage at work and at home and the ETF. I probably
would have only been disappointed until I got the same
line from 2 different CSRs and one supervisor. (keep in
mind I'm in Silicon Valley). "Do you have a lot of electrical
equipment like PCs in your office building? Electrical
equipment can interfere with the phone signal." and to
address the other end "My phone doesn't work at my
house either"...

-Quick

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