User: kiwietnies
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T-Mob Coverage in Cali.
Hey! Just wondering if anyone on here has some experience with how T-Mobile coverage is in the Sacramento, CA area and down into the bay area and north towards Reno... I'm thinking about switching my service providers after my current tour and hate jumping into 2 years without knowing what to expect.
I think most of you are missing the point...
... of what Skype is filing over. What they are filing over can be found here...
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/co ntroller?item=planFirst&action=viewPlanList&s ortOption=priceSort&typeId=10&subTypeId=33&ca tId=448
(Scroll down to the bottom of the page and read the fine print under "Unlimited Data Plan and Features")
and here...
http://www.cingular.com/cell-phone-s ervice/legal/plan-terms.jsp
(this one is tough to find, but its under "Prohibited and Permissible Uses, III")
That’s all the fine print I’m wanting to have to sort through for right now but basically what it boils down to is the Skype is specifically prohibited from having ...
Re: IMPOSSIBLE!!!
The key to the arguement is this list when it comes to using your phone on a network it wasn't branded for. The handset is technically capable of working on other networks. An excellent example fo this is a Sprint phone with total roaming access on Alltel's network including EVDO. Its the same signal and whatnot, just a different company owns the alternate system.
The ESN bank is something completely different. Its just a record ...
Re: 2 Phones for Twins
I'm sorry... But I hated the KRZR and went to the m500 and haven't missed the laggy Moto one bit.
Re: SMS, Voice messages, and Calling...
Yeah... It sounds like that's exactly what a phone already does... How is this different than storing 5 numbers, an email address and comments until the 250 contact slots already built into my phone?
Re: Verizon Pay-Per-Text Rate going up!
Where do you get your $5 from? Its $10 for the entry level package and with the way textmessaging goes on that phone I'll spend more than I should have to for less than a hundred a month. Verizon's text plans suck unless you're "in". For what's its worth, it all sucks. The phone isn't mine, its my girlfriend's and they want off Verizon because they're paying 25% more than they would be any other ...
Verizon Pay-Per-Text Rate going up!
Story:
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04 /2007/01/verizon_text.html
So, theoretically, this would mean that just as in the case of Sprint, if you are texting under the pay-per-text (no plan) then you can cancel your contract due to Verizon breaching via material change in rates?
Re: Whats the point?
Except that RL doesnt use its owns radio band!! The IDEN PTT service runs off its own frequency, meaning in theory that even if the rest of the voice and data portion of a Nextel tower were to go down, the PTT service can operate standalone. The RL PTT system along with every other system is VOIP, meaning it sends it over the data portion of the line. So a triMODE (not Tri band... Oi) phone ...
Re: Which is better CDMA or GSM???
Not to totally attack GSM, but GSM truely is toast. Saying that EDGE/UMTS were meant to work together is like saying that a GSM/CDMA(EVDO) handset was meant for it. Yes, it can talk to both networks,. but its two networks. When Verizon or Sprint rolls out EV-DO its over their network, the old handsets will work on the new network. When Cingular or T-Mobile or any other GSM carrier loads up their UMTS network the ...
Re: Which is better CDMA or GSM???
I really hate to break it to you, but in the US market EVDO has already taken off as its coverage area between Sprint and Verizon already covers all the major markets.
Re: James Kim and Cell Phone Service
It isn't really a any carrier's duty or responsibility to build their network for charity or the humanity of it. The fact is that 10 years ago this wasn't an issue because cell phones weren't nearly as big and the Kim's tragic incident would be just that, a tragic incident. Its no one's fault that they didn't get coverage because they were trapped miles away from any populous of any kind. A cell carrier is going ...
Is it even a big deal?
Sorry, I must be a bit late, but isn't MySpace a little bit over commercialized to be cool or is it still growing strong? I might just be jaded because I graduated from highschool and dumped MySpace after watching 10 friendships ruined from rumors on the site.
At any rate, it just seems like Cingular is a little late with Helio there.
How does this jive with the deal between Helio and MySpace?
Why so much?
Why is this aircard costing so much? If its the same one offered by Sprint, shouldn't it be $50 after MIR instead of $100?
Rock on Qualcomm & typorama in the post...
Hurray for all in devices. It should be interesting to see if there will be more features with the extra connectivity this opens up.
BTW - The post is choppy and difficult to read... I'm guessing it wasn't on purpose.
Rather Stupid Question... Music
Sorry if this comes across as a stupid question, but is there a driver and software for the Sprint version of this phone that will let me load up my tunes from the PC?
My media card isn't working right in my reader and tis really frustrating...
Re: "Smart Key" (Key on the top of Nextel phones)
My very layman's look at the phone is that it has the two buttons on top... And I have yet to see a Nextel phone w/o them..
Re: Its not okay to sign up with nextel
He said he wanted a phone with the PTT capability being his first need. Nextel's PTT is solid and JD Power doesn't compare PTT between the carriers.
Re: More markets and Price points. (From the Article)
Sprint is in the process of merging the two account maintainence and billing systems, once that's done we're supposed to be able to. But to answer the question, at this point in time, the hybrid is for Nextel accounts so you'd have to wwait until the merge is done.
Re: Can you
For the time being, its an iDEN device as far as Sprint is concerned, so you have to have an Nextel account to get it. Depending on the plan you're on, you can just leave the PTT as a pay-per-use feature and just use the phone part. The Nextel plans are for all intents and purposes exactly the same as Sprint's, so I don't see why you couldn't use it without the PTT.
Re: No more CDMA
I don't think it has to do so much with profitability as it does focus. CDMA and GSM need different research teams and rescources so if you can focus on one then you can shift your rescources from one to the other. If it wasn't profitable, then we won't have nearly the number of handsets that we currently do through CDMA providers.
Re: Round One to Sprint!
Shove your Verizon phone up.. nevermind.
Re: If you build it, they will come!
Sprint just reported the highest data RPU (10% i believe) last quarter according to RCR, if I read it right. Regardless, Sprint still hold the highest RPU, period. That means while Verizon has a larger budget (with millions more subscribers I should hope so), Sprint is making a higher ammount per subscriber.
Re: Round One to Sprint!
Dude, Sprint owns their own network and unlike Verizon it isn't a patchwork network of acquisitional towers.
Re: They all say that.
Oi... JD Power just did a survey about a month ago on Cingular and went clearly against Cingular's "fewest dropped calls" claim. The Telephia study was limited to certain areas and didn't take the nation as a whole into account, making a nationwide claim based on the study more than just simple puffery like it is in the Sprint claim. As far as the final sentence in there, its not "illegal" to make claim like Sprint, Cingular, T-Mobile ...
Re: Motorola Krzr1M
It uses the Music Store MP3 player exclusively so far as I can tell... It goes right there so you don't need to be online to use it though.
Re: SprintNextel and T-Mobile
T-Mobile wouldn't gain a whole lot by aquiring Sprint seeing as the companies would be forced into redundant technologies (data and voice), whereas at least with the Nextel acquisition they gained the Direct Connect niche and a buttload of needed spectrum.
Re: Motorola Krzr1M
We just got our shipment in a day or two ago as well.. To get the mp3's to work you have to create a Music folder on the transflash card. After that its just drag and drop. And no, it doesn't say tht anywhere in the manual... Motorola blows. :P
Re: switching to linux`
So far as I know, the Windows Mobile is stored in the firmware on the phone, not in the memory (correct me if I'm wrong), so its not the same as your computer where the OS information is readily avalible to be over written. To make matters worse, I don't know of a stable linux platform avalible for the 6700 anyway.
Re: Making music ringtones
Which carrier do you have and which phone?
Re: Most expandible phone
Any phone with a card slot. ie: A920, Fusic, m500, RAZR... They can all support 1GB card with the exception of the A920 which will hold up to 512mb.
Re: RANT: why do I have to renew my contract
That doesn't solve his 7pm problem.. Verizon doesn't offer early night and weekends... or Fair and Flexible... Come to think of it, they don't offer any minute saver...
Re: All I can do is laugh.
You're ignoring every part of Nextel's post that's positive. Sprint is on track for their goal of being a data oriented company. The technology was named in the first post and by focusing only on one aspect of Sprint's business plan you're making very generic statements about a company's performance.
Duh, everyone already knows that prepaid isn't all that profitable, stop repeating yourself, it just sounds silly. But data on the other hand is very profitable because ...
Re: All I can do is laugh.
And you used the word we at the end. Go study a business class or two and reply intellegently. Its all about data in the future, voice calls in wireless are going to go VOIP just like they are right now in wireline. Data networks would provide the holy grail of wireless : Nationwide unlimited talk time. Wake up and stop knocking on new technology.
Has anyone heard anything about VOIP?
This might come across as a really stupid question, but I've been looking around these forums at the Sprint posting and it seems like all that anyone has to say is that Sprint doesn't understand voice services (and please don't polute this thread with Sprint voice service bashing!!!). What I'm wondering is has anyone heard about VOIP coming down the pipeline anytime soon? With the 3G network all over already and 4G en route soon, is it ...
Re: RATE PLANS!
Its still way better than the other carriers for the reason being is that you only need to talk for 11 minutes before you break below that $.45 mark. The same 11 minutes cost you $5 anyway, and with the flexible you have another 19 minutes that you paid for whereas the other carriers are still charging you for them.
But it really isn't a secret that companies make money on the underages and on the overages of their ...
Re: Anyone know when this might be released?
Its supposed to be hitting stores on 11/1, but we'll see if that deadline actually works.
This isn't this week...
They've been doing this for the past few weeks now. Old news...
Re: Actually, they would work with another carrier
Hate to break the bubble here, but the i730 is a Nextel phone, meaning it runs off of the iDEN network, not CDMA. But the issue isn't wether someone can take the phone or not, its whether it will work once you steal it. GSM requires relatively no "hacking" of any kind. The IMEI isn't broadcasted to the network, only the SIM info. IDEN phones are the generally same way.
Re: Retention offer, help
The answer you're wanting isn't going to be in the price of the phone, but in your customer loyalty for resigning! As far as the phone itself, it normally costs $449 with your upgrade, so I'd take the extra $200 off if you MUST have it and snag a MRC discount while you're at it. And for the $49 ebay thing, there is a difference between a phone and a phone that's "like it".
If you don't need ...
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